Her point was that even though he wasn't AA, there was an effort on his part to at least "get" the culture. He read books, listened to music, moved to the Southside of Chicago and did community organizing and married an ADOS woman. So even though people would question his white mom, they could look at his wife and other things he's done and go
Kamala isn't AA, married a white guy, lived in Canada for some time and became a prosecutor with a record of favoring police. There's nothing that would make people go, she gets us