America does too.
Via Washington Post:
In 2007, a freshman senator from Illinois named Barack Obama seemed like he might mount a run for the White House. But when fellow Democratic senator Joe Biden offered backhanded praise of Obama, calling him “articulate,” some wondered: Was Obama, the son of a black father and a white mother, black enough to win the hearts of African Americans?
“As much as his biracial identity has helped Obama build a sizable following in middle America, it’s also opened a gap for others to question his authenticity as a black man,” future MacArthur genius Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote for Time. “In calling Obama the ‘first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,’ the implication was that the black people who are regularly seen by whites — or at least those who aspire to the highest office in the land — are none of these things. But give Biden credit — at least he acknowledged Obama’s identity.”