That doesn’t make him black.
True. But there's an inexplicable tendency among some whites these days to want to BE black, and/or suck up to them in an embarrassing manner. You see it all the time---white kids dressing like "gangstas" with their stupid pants around their hips and their caps turned backward, and strangest of all, TALKING like they're black (using ebonics). I guess DeNiro is one of those white people who either hates his own race, or just thinks blacks are "cooler" than whites. By kissing their butts he can obtain some of that coolness by having them "approve" of him.
Crazy. A black friend of mine once asked me, very sincerely for want of knowledge, why white people try to act like they're black. I said I had no idea, because I was perfectly happy in the white skin God gave me. She laughed and said, "That is IT, that's how it should be!"
Really?