Obama is black because (ultimately) the US is still racist. Perhaps the 'one-drop' rule was the norm in the past, but I don't think it really drives the thinking today. Just recently, wasn't there a racist a-hole who showed up at a daytime talk show to be told he was 14% African, but he still looked, acted, and felt white (of the racist a-hole ... More @Wikipedia
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