"::::::And (if WP got it right), the same person that wrote ""African-American, in our political and social vocabulary, means those descended from West African slaves, because Obama is not a descendant of West Africans brought involuntarily to the United States as slaves, he is not African-American"" also wrote ""President Barack Obama, who is the son of a Kenyan immigrant, although technically African-American, is not black.[181][182]."" And yes, if both his parents had been americans there probaly wouldn´t have been a birther movement, is that relevant here? Your opinion is clear (and you tend to state it as fact). Mine is, that Obama is an unusual kind of african american, but nonetheless african american. I don´t see us agreeing on this, so I guess this article will remain as it is unless other editors weigh in.   

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