When Barack Obama first ran for president, he faced what his advisers would refer to as the “black enough” question.
Pundits repeatedly asked whether the facts that his father was Kenyan and from a Muslim background, his mother white, and he’d been raised partly in Indonesia would hamper his appeal to African American voters.
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