Funny you should mention it. Tonight I was reminiscing about my grandparent's house in PA, and dinner with one of their neighbors, Walter Williams. Walt is an economics professor. I was skimming over some of his articles and came up with this one which is relevant to your thread.Getting Beyond Race Despite the fact that President-elect Barack Obama's vision for our nation leaves a lot to be desired, the fact that he was elected represents a remarkable national achievement. When the War of 1861 ended, neither a former slave nor slave owner would have believed it possible for a black to be elected president in a mere century and a half, if ever. I'm sure that my grandparents, born in the 1880s, or my parents, born in the 1910s, would not have believed it possible for a black to be president and neither did I for most of my 72 years ( ... )