[Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

[Milos Rancic]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 20:21,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/18/2010 9:14:37 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> millosh at gmail.com writes:
>> As it is pointed to me privately, I have one corrections and one
>> clarifications:
>> * First, my impression wasn't that Obama was raised inside of the
>> African American culture (first meaning). However, it is pointed to me
>> that he was; which means that I was wrong in relation to his cultural
>> background.
>> * Second, it is obviously not clear that inside of the construction
>> "which ancestors came there as slaves" I was referring to the culture
>> developed by slaves and their descendants , not to the genes.
>
> This is not correct.  Barack was born in Hawaii, not known for having a
> large black culture.  His father left the family early.  Barack's white mother,
> married again and moved to Indonesian with Barack where he lived for some
> years.  He then returned to his white grandparents living in Hawaii where he
> attended Junior High and High schools.
>
> He was not raised in an African American culture at all.

I said to myself that I won't read article about him this time. For
me, it is perfectly the same what he is. But, obviously, I have to do
my homework in such situations.