Peggy Orenstein's "Mixed Messenger" essay

Please read Peggy Orenstein's article on her take, as a white mom of a biracial child, on what it means for Barack Obama to have a chance at becoming a major party candidate for President.  "[F]or parents like me, Obama, as the first biracial candidate, symbolizes something else too: the future of race in this country, the paradigm and paradox of its simultaneous intransigence and disappearance," she writes.  I was moved by her thoughtful essay.  I hope you are too.