Is it correct to classify Obama as the first black president"

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A ghetto is all of a sudden the place for black people to grow up around their peers?

Well, that is why I used the term "stereotypical", because that is the impression I got from them, meaning, that this ought to be the impression that one has to get when thinking of the afro-american minority.

I live in a predominately white area, but we have a number of black people in town. They grew up with each other and the rest of us. They didn't turn white from hanging out with us. Shit, I spent nearly every day in middle school with a friend who happens to be black and she's still black. I'm still white too! Do we need to elect Mammy for the president to be black enough to be black? Makes no fucking sense.

Well, your skin colour can't change, obviously.
But just like you said, you grew up together, and I presume that you came from a middle class neighborhood with aspirations to amount more than simply becoming a cashier at the local grocery shop.
And I also assume that your black friends were of this social class to have aspirations for college and not of the again "stereotypical" black guy's job of being the local slanger(or a worldwide rapstar).

About mammy...Well, can you actually brush aside the one part of a person in favour of the other? Obama is no more black than he's white, in terms of his blood, and he is also very cultured, speaks the english language with a clear accent(I don't know if he speaks any other languages besides his native english), and has had higher education.
So he does not fit the "black guy" type that we remember from Harlem or Bronx, or Detroit.