“I remember that my impression at the first meeting was that Barack thought that I was too white, and I thought that he was too black….”

I’d like to note his usage of the word “White.” While this is indeed a skin complexion, I would think that it has been ingrained in modern youth since the apparent success of the black Civil Rights movements that one’s ethnic identity should have nothing to do with the color of one’s skin.

On the other hand, I’d say the nazis and other likeminded anti-Semites in Europe made it very clear that the Jewish people of Europe were not racially “white” like the other Europeans claim to be.

Anyhow, I think that making something all about being “white” versus “black” is contradictory and counterproductive to the counter-racism efforts both African-descent American and so-called “white” Americans of all cultural groups have been focusing on for the last several decades.