EVER SINCE Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) emerged as a presidential contender, there has been much debate about whether or not the son of a Kenyan father and a Kansan mother is “really black.” A debate that has always struck us as being woefully wrong-headed. It’s abundantly clear that the man in question is Asian!

Top 10 Reasons Why Barack Obama is Not Black, He’s Asian

10) His stepfather is from Indonesia, where Obama spent his early years

9) He’s a native son of Hawaii, a predominantly Asian state (which incidentally claims him as a “third senator”)

8) The Harvard grad is an overachiever in the Model Minority vein

7) He smokes like a chimney (as do most men in Asia)

6) His skintone is decidedly “high yellow” (yes, we went there)

4) He’s half Kenyan and China ♥ Kenya

5) His scrawny physique screams Asiatic phenotype

3) His half-Indonesian half-sister is married to a Chinese-Canadian

2) There’s a city in Japan called Obama

1) There’s an entire samurai clan called Obama!

We rest our case. •