and from  South-Central LA.

Think about it for a second.

Would that level of incompetence, inadequacy, lack of respect and brazen confidence be even remotely tolerated by the white majority?  Would David numbskull Brooks be crowing about how resplendent she was?

Would there be ooohs and aaaahs of how fresh she was, how "folksy"?  

[Isn't "folksy" just another way of saying "ethnic while white",  politely?  And isn't "ethnic" just what MSM uses to mean "colored" when speaking of a black person?]

Think about the picture of say, a young African-american woman who spent six years in five schools barely getting a journalism degree, who has a husband who belongs to a group that advocates secession, has five kids, with the eldest having a baby out wedlock at seventeen, and the youngest baby suffering from some disability.

Yes, think about a black Sarah Palin, and understand why it is Barak has to have an  excellent ivy league schooling, be the first in his law school class, be the first black to become Harvard's Law Review President, be a brilliant politician, have above average 3-point shooting skills, have sizzling charm and smooth oratory and an ability to infuse people with hope, have superb managerial and organizational skills, and work *twice* as frigging *hard* and then, dimly, distantly, get grudging acknowledgement that he's qualified to be President, after getting ridiculed for being all "elitist" (just another term for the outrageously offensive "uppity").

He just does, because in this country, there are no black Sarah Palins, not even on the remote horizon.

What is on the horizon, however, thankfully, is the first African-American President. The first black President.  I can't say it without getting chills up my spine. 

I cannot imagine the sea-change that this country is about to experience.  What a profound line in the sands of history!  Nothing will ever be the same again.  May the  ghosts of  our brutal past lay to rest.

And let there be tears, tears, tears, ... as so many personal and moving diaries on this site in recent times have provoked.

It's going to be a new day in America, and I can only hope for the best, for a future in which there are no Sarah Palins, black or white, metaphorically speaking.  Let the Baraks of this country prosper....