while growing up and having a Thai mother, do you think he was accepted by the black community? Do you think he was accepted by the Thai community? which community do you think he related to most?
Sorry Tim. That, I feel, is a answer rife with relativism. Perhaps, one could put it down to his being young, but it would have been the 'right' thing to identify rather than fudging or with an eye to his future marketability, etc. Personal foibles aside, Muhammed Ali and Jim Brown etc. are legends precisely just for not doing so.
/these are posers. there are no correct answers.