Why is Obama a Black man?

I was hoping to get this post out before Super Tuesday, in case Obama becomes politically irrelevant by Tuesday evening--

That was a little harsh, I guess. I'm a registered independent, it doesn't matter who I want to win anyway. My vote won't count, even less than usual.

I'm at a mental standstill right now though, and anything I write from this point out will be incoherent, rambled, and unintelligible.

Until I can get this post written, there are some things I want you to think about:

How important is race as an identifying factor? Not particularly for you as an individual, but as a societal collective.
What defines race? Is it a cultural thing? An ancestral thing?
How much belief do you put into the 'one drop' rule?
And from there, how do you consider multiracial identity?
Is multiracial enough to be considered an "identity", or will those individuals be forced to choose? To conform to the one box rule?

It is in my experience that the many people who claim that the one drop rule is racist and unfair can often claim that someone of mixed heritage only represents one race. Such as Barack Obama and Tiger Woods.

This obviously isn't their individual faults.

But why does this happen? Why can't we fully embrace the multiracial identity?

More on this soon.