  His father is a black man from Kenia in Africa, and his mother is white. So where the african American comes in, heaven knows. Only because he was born in the US? Still makes him a mixed race  Most African-Americans already have varying degrees of White and often times Amerindian ancestry to begin with though. But yeah, certainly not a full 50%, but still most African-Americans are already mixed with varying degrees of White and/or indian ancestry whether they realize it or not.