"It's just the choice of words I guess.

Peoeple have stated along with this that he's "The son of a black man." It's just the way you look at it. :)"

"Well, you are correct but very little of that applies to Barack. He is not the descendant of slaves who were kidnapped from Africa, his ancestors were never mistreated by white racists as far as I know. Barack himself has said that the various faults and rifts that divide the U.S.A. should be healed.

In that context he has never overemphasized one part of his ancestry over another. In fact, judging from his upbringing one could claim that he held his mother and maternal grandmother that died recently in more esteem than his Kenyan father who abandoned him as a child.

Therefore, Baracks' African roots were exaggerated by the press because he was the first presidential candidate who had African roots, and not by Barack himself. He has never displayed the miserly attitude of the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton that would doom his presidential campaign - because he did never experience the past hardships of a segregated U.S.America, after all."