And not to sound tacky, but she's not really "black", she's multiracial, and she's married to a white man. And, like Obama before her, she's not descended from American blacks, thus not an heiress of the American black slavery-and-Jim-Crow experience.
I am not some stubborn, pig-headed jerk who never thinks twice about what he's said or done. Upon rereading this, I have come to realize,
all on my own --- nobody suggested this to me --- that it is not quite fair to refer to a multiracial American as "not really 'black' ". I would edit this out if I could, but the "modify" function only stays active for a short time, and it's expired.
Yes, anyone in American society who even superficially appears to be "black", is in fact treated and approached that way,
both in negative and in positive ways. Americans don't really think "oh, he's West Indian", or "she's African", or what have you, at least until they get to know the person. If you are black in America, everything that goes with that, becomes part of your life. Where the "blackness" is so below-the-radar, so invisible, as to allow its owner to "pass" if they wish to --- think Halsey (makes no secret of it, but you have to be told), Rashida Jones (she doesn't "pass" but she could), or Carol Channing (I never knew, but once I was told, I said "yeah, now I can see it") --- that's one thing. But most Americans with black heritage don't have that experience. Some members of my son's extended family are beautiful, part-French, part-American black, little children.
Happy to have the opportunity to clarify. Downvote if you feel like that's what you need to do. Let's fight Joe and Kamala with everything we've got.