Yes. There is also a “cultural endogamy” angle: there are cultural differences between black and white people, and white people tend to show an aversion to cultural “blackness”. I think this is why Obama could be elected while Jesse Jackson never could: Jackson reads as “culturally black” while Obama reads as “happens to be black”. Halle Berry also reads as “happens to be black” no doubt because she (like Obama) was raised largely by her white mother.
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