He spent his youth with acute feelings of abandonment, was painfully detached from his white mother and white grandmother, came to think it was because of his black essence, then came to idealize his purported Kenyan father as the key to his true self, his true history, and his true destiny.
At that point --- not at the point of his conception --- this lost soul rejected the Barry Soetoro mask and became Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
Barack Senior filled the compelling social/psychological "role" of supplying Barry's lost blackness, lost masculinity, and lost identity--- even if the actual sperm donor turned out to be that pervert Davis.
As I see it.