" February 2007 (UTC) 

 The reality is, if he does in fact want to use the term African Americanand we do place that in the lead there MUST be a controversy/ criticism establishing that many other African Americans think he is a pretender. If it's not bleated about in the article, then we don't have to include that criticism/controversy. Apparently Barack has even gone as far to defend his usage of the term by claiming ""decendents of slaves and recent african immigrants have a lot in common "", a mind bogglingly ridiculous statement if I ever heard one.  17:48, 24"