[Smokin' Joe]

Maybe he felt it increased his credibility in his community and lent him some street cred that he did not have as a mulatto.

"Street cred"????

What street cred?

He is half African, at most, not American 'descended from slaves'--or even freemen black, not "inner city" black, not "ghetto" black, not 'back of the bus Jim-Crow black, not even poor-dirt-road/floor-rural-field-hand black. He HAS NO 'American black experience', even as a birthright--he even claims to have gone to a school where children from 'mixed marriages' were generally accepted.

Where is the 'downtroddenness' in all that? Columbia? Harvard?

Street cred? Don't make me laugh. He's a fraud all the way around, capitalizing on suntan while selling America a bill of goods.

[El Sordo]

Precisely why he would need the 'street cred'.

So consider, in a liberation theology church claims of African birth would go a long ways.

Yet there is no evidence that BHO ever made such a claim over the period of a decade and change when it would have been to his great advantage to do so.

Other uses for street cred: