As Barack Obama took his stage, no longer a shrewd candidate but a victorious President Elect, we could see him for all he truly is, not just that which he has projected over the past 22 months. We could clearly see, for the first time, a man walking in the shadow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Of course we have all recognized him as that before, and we all talked about it. But it wasn't how he was defined during the campaign. It couldn't be or he never would have taken that stage in Grant Park victorious, and there never would have been a crowd of 200,000 elated to the point of tears. He couldn't be just an African-American candidate running on the platform of equality and human dignity. As noble and necessary and natural as those truths are, they are not the only issues that define Barack Obama. He is not just an African-American, but he is an African-American. He is not just a White-American, but he is white. After his speech in Chicago, the pundits vacillated between the terms "African-American" and "Biracial". Like America, there is no one term to describe who we are. Can he be both?

http://thetruthburns.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/its-not-a-white-thing-or-a-black-thing-its-an-american-thing/