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Personally, on that one i don't think it had so much to do with race as with religion. I think it gained traction because of the people who already believed him to be lying about being a Christian which already requires rejecting what is known about his upbringing.
Anyway, I think the reason they released was not because it will put the issue to bed. It won't. The quality of a proper conspiracy theory is that it can't be rebutted as any contrary evidence is not contrary evidence but rather simply further evidence of a conspiracy to hide the truth.
However, the story was starting to get a lot of talk in the more mainstream press and I would guess they're trying to put it back in the margins by getting two days of coverage on the release and then hopefully the mainstream news directors saying "ok, that's done now."
I don't think it will work even at that, but I doubt it was done to quell the issue among those who believe it.
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