Okay, his family had slaves, so did many others at that time. What I did learn was:
Author and essayist Debra J. Dickerson wrote in a January salon.com article that she had previously refrained from opining about the senator because “I didn’t have the heart (or the stomach) to point out the obvious: Obama isn’t black.”
” ‘Black,’ in our political and social reality, means those descended from West African slaves,” Dickerson said.
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so what?
Al Sharpton is related to Strom Thurmonds family.
big deal.