Who is Barack Obama?

There is nothing more than I would like to do as embrace a candidate for president like Barack Obama. He represents the individual in this nation to tha fullest! His heritage is one of diversity and he indeed represents America as the melting pot that some refer to it as. He has had the opportunity to see the cultural make up of this country from the inside of the two most dominant cultural groups that reside in this nation - but as somewhat of an outsider to both. I have a lot in common with this man. I understand some of the confusion that lies within experiencing immersion in the diversity of different groups - but never feeling completely accepted by any. I understand witnessing the oppression of one group by the other and wanting to do something to change that. But yet I find my self somewhat uneasy with this man, Barack Obama. My uneasiness lies within the fears I have for my own multicultural family - for you see - I am the single mother of two boys - of two different dads - and within the three of us is the blood of all the races on the earth - and I understand the pressures that may come about them to conform to one group or another. I fear that if they represent themselves as the individuals that they truly are - one group or the other will not validate them - and will label them as not black enough - or not white enough - or not Hispanic enough - or not native enough. I feel for Barack Obama and the pressures he is under as a bi-racial American in the year of 2008. His journey that has taken him on the road to president - could not have come easily and I suspect he is quite accustomed to knowing how to "act" to get the approval of whichever social situation he finds himself in. I too am gifted at doing this - for even as I write this blog - I am targeting an audience who I think will read this blog. I will add to this blog as more thoughts come to me - because I am not sure where exactly it is that I am going with this. I haven't found the words to describe the reasons I am distrustful of Barack Obama without offending any one - or even many.