Wasn't there a story a few years ago where somebody said that a player from Africa (in basketball, I assume; I only vaguely remember the story) wasn't really "black"? This is the same argument.
The interesting thing if you tease his point out of the wall of rhetoric is that it sounds pretty much like a lot of what a lot of white people say when they're uncomfortable with black people. E.g., "It's not about skin color, it's about culture." "I don't have a problem with black people, just niggers." That kind of crap. Any time you start putting people in boxes based on what they look like or where they're from, you're going to get this stuff. And yet it's almost impossible for human beings not to automatically sort people into categories based on what they look like.
