An American President

So many of us out here now are just Americans. Oh, our ancestors came from somewhere, maybe a lot of different places, a long time ago. So why is it necessary to identify Barack as an African-American president? Oh, I know that he leveraged his background into a huge outpouring of black loyalty, and far more spectacularly, white noblesse oblige, but now we can only hope that his election will allow a coming together to let us all be Americans... surely being Americans is enough.