Why?

I was reading an article and found something curious about Halle Berry
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<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1lace w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Berry</st1:State></st1lace> was born Maria Halle Berry, though her name was legally changed to Halle Maria Berry in 1971. <st1:State w:st="on">Berry</st1:State>'s parents selected her middle name from Halle's Department Store, which was then a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland, Ohio. Her mother, Judith Ann (née Hawkins), who is Caucasian, was a psychiatric nurse. Her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, was an African American hospital attendant in the same psychiatric ward where her mother worked; he later became a bus driver. <st1:State w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Berry</st1lace></st1:State>'s parents divorced when she was four years old; she and her older sister Heidi<SUP id=cite_ref-nea_13-0> </SUP>were raised exclusively by her mother. <st1:State w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Berry</st1lace></st1:State> has said in published reports that she has been estranged from her father since her childhood, noting in 1992, "I haven't heard from him since [he left]. Maybe he's not alive."

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o>........She was the first African-American Miss Wolrd entrant in 1986</o>
<o></o><o>........she became the first African-American to receive a Best Leading Actress Academy Award</o>
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<o> So why would someone of mixed race, who was raised exclusively by their white mother allow themselves to be called the first African American as does Halle and Obama?</o>

 

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