An Epic Moment, Yes. But Transcendent? No.

I for one respect the office and although i didnt vote for him, i wish him the best. Like it or not, he's the prism through which we are now seen by the rest of the world.

I dont want to get off on a rant here, but :

Did you know that Barak Obama is the first black president ? Geez, i would have never known that if our friends at ABC,NBC,CBS, MSNBC, FOX, CNN, newsweek, time, wash.post, ny times, etc hadnt told me daily since nov 4th....and about every 15 seconds during the conronatio...err,....Inauguration.

Did u know that Martin Luther King, Jr was apparently black also.....i think he was a speaker of some reknown, but it was so long ago that almost no one who isnt black apparently remembers him or anything he tried to do.....

...and did you know black people were once slaves here in America? (Unlike the millions of slaves held by the Romans, the Assyrians, the Mongols, the Turks, the Babylonians, the Zulus, the Carthaginians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Egyptians, the Russians, the French, the Arabs, the Hindus, and many 'sub-saharan cultures' throughout history.....)

...and when did it become mandatory for any Christian preacher to call themselves Dr?
Isnt that reserved for people who actually earn degrees studying something? Dr of Divinity is an affront to people who actually get PhD's the old fashioned way....they earn them.

I for one respect the office and although i didnt vote for him, i wish him the best. Like it or not, he's the prism through which we are now seen by the rewst of the world.

I dont want to get off on a rant here, but :

Did you know that Barak Obama is the first black president ? Geez, i would have never known that if our friends at ABC,NBC,CBS, MSNBC, FOX, CNN, newsweek, time, wash.post, ny times, etc hadnt told me daily since nov 4th....and about every 15 seconds during the conronatio...err,....Inauguration.

Did u know that Martin Luther King, Jr was apparently black also.....i think he was a speaker of some reknown, but it was so long ago that almost no one who isnt black apparently remembers him or anything he tried to do.....

...and did you know black people were once slaves here in America? (Unlike the millions of slaves held by the Romans, the Assyrians, the Mongols, the Turks, the Babylonians, the Zulus, the Carthaginians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Egyptians, the Russians, the French, the Arabs, the Hindus, and many 'sub-saharan cultures' throughout history.....)

...and when did it become mandatory for any Christian preacher to call themselves Dr?
Isnt that reserved for people who actually earn degrees studying something? Dr of Divinity is an affront to people who actually get PhD's the old fashioned way....they earn them.

I for one respect the office and although i didnt vote for him, i wish him the best. Like it or not, he's the prism through which we are now seen by the rewst of the world.

I dont want to get off on a rant here, but :

Did you know that Barak Obama is the first black president ? Geez, i would have never known that if our friends at ABC,NBC,CBS, MSNBC, FOX, CNN, newsweek, time, wash.post, ny times, etc hadnt told me daily since nov 4th....and about every 15 seconds during the conronatio...err,....Inauguration.

Did u know that Martin Luther King, Jr was apparently black also.....i think he was a speaker of some reknown, but it was so long ago that almost no one who isnt black apparently remembers him or anything he tried to do.....

...and did you know black people were once slaves here in America? (Unlike the millions of slaves held by the Romans, the Assyrians, the Mongols, the Turks, the Babylonians, the Zulus, the Carthaginians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Egyptians, the Russians, the French, the Arabs, the Hindus, and many 'sub-saharan cultures' throughout history.....)

...and when did it become mandatory for any Christian preacher to call themselves Dr?
Isnt that reserved for people who actually earn degrees studying something? Dr of Divinity is an affront to people who actually get PhD's the old fashioned way....they earn them.

The fact that Barack Obama's formative years were experienced outside the debilitations of American racism/race relations seems to me to be more telling of the possibilities that abound for most of us when we as Americans cast aside the notion of race superiority.

The choice of an African-American as the new leader of the world???s most powerful nation appears to have signaled in an era of the beginning of the decline of global white supremacy. Its significance can be daunting. The whites (mostly the younger generation of the post 1960s) hold little qualm in voting for their ethnic-free choice of leader which several decades ago would have been quite unimaginable.

One might think that Martin Luther King???s dream was almost completely shattered after his untimely assassination some 40 years ago. But his dream revived. It just did, not a moment too late.

The world has witnessed that regimes headed by minority would often be short-lived. Does this bear any relevance to the US? THINK ABOUT IT.
(Tan Boon Tee)

Even if povery, incarceration and opportunity weren't color coded, they would still be racialized. This is what all you talking heads either don't get or are playing ignorant about in order to dissimulate racism. Racism is an objective fact of life. Even if we all wake up colorblind tomorrow, people we now define as black will still be more likely than those we now define as whites to live in poverty, be in prison, and be disadvantaged. This is because the ideology of racism is no longer needed to maintain the material reality of racism. The promise of Obama is to perfect racism by hiding its reality in the myth of colorblind meritocracy. The corporate media heads are crawling all over themselves to declare racism dead now that we have a black president. It would be self-evidently ridiculous to most everybody if it weren't for the depth of false consciousness in America.

Posted by MJ

One aspect of African American life that has held people back, is that African Americans are more endogamous than any other race group in North America. Our knowledge of the cultures and ways of other race groups is low. How many African Americans, have friends who are Caucasian? That attitude has played a role in the overall social progress of America. In the feild of employment, how can people network or navigate attitudes without knowlege and ways others expect them to behave or style their resumes?

Obama came to the scene with a deep knowledge of both worlds. In that sense he trancends race. For that process to continue, African American must look outwards and not only inwards as is often the case. Yet most folks seem to miss this point as a lesson to take away from this experience. To my mind, trancending race means mutual understanding of one another.

Your article seems to be holding to the past instead of marching to the future.

We have been kinda discussing the race issue here at work. I work with a bi-racial male so it was good discussion. The jury is out on this one...

funny, everybody even Barrack and Oprah have forgotten that he is half WHITE.

Richard Pryor had keen insight when he said "White people are so stupid"

I???m so fed up with our corrupt political system after breaking my back for years building my business and fighting from going bankrupt, a bunch of naïve Americans elect an even more naïve career politician, president. I and many of my business partners have decided to pack it in, I???m laying off 50 plus workers starting next month and retiring. No way in hell am I going to pay this numskull???s capital gains tax and run my business into the ground before I can cash out!

What about all the moderate republicans who came out for Obama. Them saying what they did, including being repelled by the propaganda machine, was just because they were duped by Soros and the other bleeding hearts?

As long as Rs keep trying to blame this event on others, the party will keep shrinking.

A 40 year republican

And to think you, your BS buddy, and all those ubiquitous smear emails you kept repasting here, just weren't enough to counteract the conspiracy of that "nutgobs mainstream media propaganda machine"....

They're just so unfair, and your cause is so righteous....

Epic is the perfect word. A brilliantly orchestrated fraud of "epic" proportions promoted with far-left socialist 100% biased liberal nutjobs mainstream media propaganda machine carried Barack Hussein Obama's rear end into the White House.
Journalism in the USA is dead ..... and so is democracy.