Obama and race

Pam of Pam's House Blend discusses why Obama is making people confused:

It just appears that people simply aren't thinking very hard (or perhaps too hard) about these deeper perceptions about race when it comes to Obama. I'm not surprised, since it's clear a sizeable number of people either cannot or refuse to look inward and reflect on our need to place people in neat racial and ethnic boxes to make it easier to keep the system we have in place -- as uncomfortable as it is -- because it is familiar. Obama's rise changes the rules of the game, and those already in the game (on both sides) don't want those rules to change.