Tags: I see it this way!

Barack Obama's is truely an African American when that term is used to describe his ancestry, not his racial makeup. His mother was an American-born woman and his father from Africa.  I'd say he would be better labeled  bi-racial since there seems to be so much concern in some quarter about the color of his skin. To use the term African American on Sen. Obama discards his mother's genes.  It also goes back to post slavery days when they said one drop of black blood made you black(Negro, colored, etc). Thank goodness most voters place emphasis on his other attributes such and intellect, love of family and country , and not the his skin. He could be the first president of the USA with dark skin but I see that as inevitable not historic other than for trivia and history test questions 100 years from today. It's inevitable that this country will have a woman, Jew, Hispanic, etc. president in the future.  Just a matter of time. Now the rest of the keeping it real: On the PunditMom blog there a comment on a post about "I Can't Stop Wondering About Obama's Mother" from someone who keeps it real. Keeping it real means to put a down-to-earth perspective on thoughts. Somebody named Gannex said... When the United States elects its first black or female or Jewish president, it will be of no historical significance whatsoever. It will not, as is often supposed, show that America has reached a new level of racial, religious or gender tolerance. If that were the case, then one could look for inspiration to, say, Pakistan, as a haven of gender equality, because Pakistan once had Benazir Bhutto as prime minister. Yet that devoutly Islamic country is hardly a feminist's nirvana. Now, that's what I call keeping it real!