I know that there were probably as many people who voted for him because he was black as there were those who voted for McCain purely because they didn't want a black man in office, don't get me wrong, but those very same people probably didn't care whether he was mixed race or whatever, but all the talk of trying to classify him as some sort of half-black hybrid or something in order to detract from a historical event just smacks of outdated and obsolete language that was left behind in the 1800s.

The fact is, the terms 'African American' and 'Black' are interchangeable (at least in the context of discussing black Americans), and an African American is defined as any American with African ancestry (specifically, Sub-Saharan African), and Barack calls himself black and African American, so he is the first black President.