Letters to the Editor
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You don't get it
Obama isn't black. He isn't white. He's of mixed race and that puts him outside simplistic profiling and cliched tennis-match reporting in one fell swoop. The media doesn't have a paradigm elastic enough, and it shows in every article that second-guesses his white-appeal, or doubts if he's "black enough". He transcends, as mixes often do, and profoundly.
Is Giuliani Italian or American? Is Hillary just a woman or merely a wasp? Can we elect a Mormon if he's good looking, or a warmonger who's the walking wounded? This election, as no other, pushes envelopes in new and surprising ways, and I'm fascinated that Obama's politics of inclusion mirrors his DNA. Who'd a thunk, after Bush broke the glass-basement, that we'd see something new under the sun?