President-elect Obama: My take
“My first real taste of a racially charged political campaign, and its effects, came in 1991. My hometown had just elected its first black American mayor and the atmosphere was tense. I was with a group of friends at city hall a few days after the election when an old white man passed by and grunted to us, “G*d damned monkeys…taking over the entire town.” I carried the image of that old man with me for years and kept it through this presidential campaign. As a daughter of the US South, I could not fathom most of “white America” crossing the color barrier to elect a candidate who happened to be black. [...]“
Read the rest of what I and some of my colleagues have to say about Obama’s victory here . Feel free to leave your thoughts there too.