" They knew, on a gut level, that it wasn’t the white and black dichotomy that was being challenged, but the idea that to be American is to be white or black. Who knew what could follow on from this murky Kenyan-Indonesian-Hawaiian-Kansan mélange? They were right to be frantic. Obama had challenged the assumption that a person had to be from somewhere familiar, had to be from one place, and he had successfully smuggled that question into the center of American life. "
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