He was raised by whites in a foreign country. What authentic connection would he have with American blacks?
“Foreign Country.†Hawaii is a group of Pacific islands 2500 miles from San Diego. Honolulu is as close to Tokyo as from Washington, DC.It has a large Japanese-American population as well as a minority population consisting of (largely mutiracial) descendents of the Polynesians. A white minority. A place as different from Kansas as Puerto Rico is. Obama is essentially a colonial and because of his family background less friendly to American culture than a middle-class native of the Philippines would be.