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U.S. dilemma
As many voters turn their attention to the presidential election, the media continues to remind us of the race. With a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, Barak Obama, we are concerned with racial origin. Some people see it as "too black" while others say it is just "not black enough." Individuals with a mixed heritage betray our hidden beliefs and sometimes our prejudices. For example, rapper Kanye West in 2006 told Essence Magazine, "If not for race mixing, there would be no video girls." Growing up in Louisiana, who lived with one drop rule. The one drop rule holds that individuals with some degree of African descent can not be white. In fact, it makes the person 100% black. In this narrow view, regardless of the race of the child's mother is determined black.