Barack Obama’s speech was damn good. Duh. No need to go into the obvious or to rehash what literally thousands of others around this country are doing right now.

I want to touch on something different. Something that has been on my mind for months, ever since Obama hit the national stage.

It has always perplexed me when someone with one black parent and one white parent (or any other combination, for that matter) gets put into the category of one or the other.

I believe it was Chris Matthews or Keith Olberman said earlier in the day,

“If America had had 43 black presidents, then we would be describing Barack Obama as potentially the country’s first white president.”

He could not be more right. It is absurd in this day and age that we continue to use the limitation of labels.

Barack Obama is everything that is good about this country. He defines what this country was founded on. It was not founded as a haven for any specific group of people — but as a haven for all people. Not a place where one man is better than the next — but where all are good enough to get a chance. This country is a melting pot of essentially every country and culture on this planet.

Don’t get me wrong, I think what Barack has achieved by becoming the Democratic nominee tonight, does wonders for African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, women and all other non-white males in this country.

It is a great thing. It is the way it should be. I could not be happier or prouder of us as a country.

My point here is that I hope we as a country will soon be where we don’t define our brothers, sisters, neighbors, co-workers, friend and neighbors by these narrow labels, but rather as simply Americans.

Barack Obama is not black, nor is he white.

Barack Obama is, simply, American. As Kix and Ronnie say: Only in America.