Uh. No. In our culture, sadly, the standard of socio-economic privilege is set by white people according to their tastes, values, etc.

This may be changing, which is good, but it was certainly this way in the 1960s and 1970s and into the 1980s when Obama was growing up.

If you were raised with any kind of socio-economic privilege in these years, you were necessarily raised white no matter the color of your skin.

Uh, no. access to "majority white institutions" and "stuff that white people can afford in more consistent numbers than people of color" does not make a person "white".

I really don't understand this correlation that you're making.

Howard University is an elite historically black university. Does that make the people who attend it "white" because it's an expensive private school?

Also, just curious: in terms of "taste", a lot of young white people these days luuurrve them some hip hop. Does that make hip hop "white" in your eyes? In terms of "values": what specifically "white" values are you talking about? And how is it differentiated from "black" values or "Latino" values or "Asian American" values", etc.

Do you have some kind of personal anecdote about growing up as a person of "color" but "becoming" white when you got more money/a better education?