A fine point is being missed.
Is he being regarded as BLACK, or black?
During the campaign, Obama tried to play the “I’m down with the struggle” card by claiming that “his family” was descended from slaves (by way of his wife and through him, his wife’s children).
He was not descended from American slaves, he grew up in Indonesia where he didn’t even experience “racism” from American “imperialism”. He eventually got tired of moving around with “wandering mama” and moved to Hawaii to live with his grandmother who worked as the VP of a bank.
But don’t question his authority.
If his politics were conservative his blackness would not count, any more than Justice Clarence Thomas (who we all know, is not authentically black).