While dodging those pigs I said would fly before a black man got elected president, I got to thinking about just who black folks had to thank for Barack Obama’s historic achievement.
Obama and his brilliant staff are, of course, at the top of the list for mounting what was arguably the best presidential campaign in [...]
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I thought a lot on Election Day about limitations, how we as Americans agreed both explicitly and implicitly, from the nation’s founding, that a black man would never become president. Masters certainly knew it. And from the wretched status to which they were consigned, the slaves no doubt could scarcely imagine it.
Yet, in a political [...]
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The landslide election of Barack Obama represents something extraordinary—but not just because our president-elect has brown skin.
What is equally extraordinary is the rainbow-colored, mass movement that consolidated itself to catapult him into the White House.
Even as we celebrate the phenomenon that is Obama, let us not lose sight of an even bigger phenomenon—that of the [...]
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