Once you factor in his time in Hawaii and Indonesia and his limited connection with the African-American community until his 20s, I feel that 'African-American' alone gives a misleading impression of his history. If we're realistically honest, a kid growing up in the Bronx surrounded by crime and drugs has little hope of becoming president, but the son of two university students does - ethnicity is a smaller factor which appears prominent as more of the former and less of the latter are black