the end of black men. is murdoch saying that obama is not black because he was raised in a white family? it s really hard to figure out what he s trying to say. i think the larger issue here is this idea that there are, you know. some sort of characteristics or qualities that make you black in this country. he s an african-american male who has dealt with racism on his part and as a president i think he s had he actually has a lot of successes that he can talk about in terms of what he has done for the african-american community. the concern here is that we re still in 2015, we re talking about whether what make as real black person in this country and i think that s just like a ridiculous type of conversation and i hope rupert murdoch would know better. deborah, president obama has spoken about this. he s spoken about trayvon martin and said he could have been his son and went on to describe his