The meme within the racist right is that Obama is not an African American because his mother was white. You’ll recall, Rush Limbaugh called Obama a “halfrican American.” Today on her radio show, racist talkshow host Laura Ingraham suggested Obama is not black.
Source: Media Matters Her grasp of race and politics has only grown stronger since then, and today on her radio show she wondered aloud if Herman Cain “would be the first black president, when you measure it by — because he doesn’t — does he have a white mother, white father, grandparents, no, right?”