Travis, you hit the bullseye! I’ve said for years that so many black radicals who are light skinned have a psychological need to prove they belong in the black community. Many were possibly teased by darker skinned blacks when they were kids, as not being really black. One way of gaining their acceptance is to act “super-black” in a sense. I have known many light skinned, mixed race blacks who are extreme in their black nationalist views. What better way to prove your blackness than by advocating every radical view in the black nationalist agenda.
And add to Barak’s psychological soup that his white mom is a classic self-hating white, who can only live with non-white men? She’s a loony toons leftist multi-culti radical from the word go.