One could argue that he’s even more authentically African-American than Barack Obama, given that Obama’s mother was white and he was raised in part by his white grandparents. In his autobiography, Obama writes at length about how he grew up outside the traditional African-American experience — in Hawaii and Indonesia — and how he consciously chose to adopt a black identity when he was in college.
You can read the whole article
here, but after this bit, why would you fucking want to, right?
You know, I remember during the 2008 primary and early administration days when conservatives questioned Obama's blackness repeatedly. Then for the next several years when they were obstructing and trashing the President repeatedly, they did not do that. I wonder fucking why.
But Ben Carson has now become a conduit for white conservatives to once again delegitimize Obama's blackness.