Virginia : The voting in this US presidential elections will tell whether race is a factor in this race to the white house. For some families the fact that the son of a black father and white mother is a presidential candidate may just make it exciting enough.
Minneh and Bill Kane and their three children live in Virginia. Just 41 years ago, they would have been breaking the law. In Virginia it was illegal to marry someone of another race. Now, ten year old Gabriel sees a man from a mixed marriage - running for president.
"I think he's really cool because he looks kinda like me. And if he's elected, I feel like I could be elected too,“ says Gabriel.
They have something else in common too. His mother is from Kenya, just like Barack Obama's father and, his parents - like Barack and Michelle Obama -- went to Harvard law school but all those things in common - aren't that important to 13-year-old veronica.
“I don't really relate to him solely on the fact that he's, like, black - half black, half white like me. I'm very impressed with everything that he does, you know? He’s a very smart person,” says Veronica Kane.
"You know, I started to tell my children a long time ago that it's hard for you to even imagine what this means. To me it's such a huge thing and I mean, in a way, it's a testament to how fortunate they are that it's not as huge as deal in many ways for them as it is for me.
But I'm telling them, can you imagine that this person who has a parent who's from Kenya, who's African American, you know, who has this very strange background, is able to aspire to the highest office in this land and will probably get there and for me that is such an enormous thing," says Minneh Kane.
Proof, he says, that his children live in a country that is rapidly and profoundly changing.
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