The commentary on the Obama inauguration has been focusing and repeating the fact that he is the first black president. It is amazing of course, when you consider that only 55 years ago, it took an division of paratroopers to allow a small number of black teenagers to attend a white high school in Little Rock.
I really have not been making a big deal about it. Partly I think it is because I always thought the first black president would be a Republican, named Powell or Watts or Steele. So there is a little jealously there.
But mostly I hope because I do believe in colorblindness. I hope that the next time a black man is elected president, no one will think much about it.
My hope is that skin color be reduced to a mere accident of birth. That it is a part of someone (the way my ethnicity is part of what makes me up). Yes, I fall short of that ideal all to often, but I can still try.
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I think you have captured my thoughts exactly. I do wonder how long the talk of 'historic' presidencies can go on. The comparisons with JFK, FDR, Lincoln, and Moses won't help him in the long run, I think.
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