Race and the election

It's interesting that throughout the entire campaign, Barack Obama did everything he could to make sure that the election was not about race. Some even called him the 'post-racial' candidate.

Yet, since about 10:00 PM on Tuesday evening, almost the entire coverage of the election has been about 'how far' this country has come since slavery and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. There have been so many clichés about black children finally being able to believe that they can truly be "whatever they want to be" when they grow up, my head hurts. Every civil rights leader still alive has been interviewed. Election night coverage on MSNBC and in the Chicago Tribune the next morning was focused on Atlanta, GA and Selma, AL.

For a candidate that tried so hard to distance himself from the issue of race, and for the liberal media that did the same, it was almost as if they didn't want to make it an issue until the reality of it was overcome. Now that that's been done, the fear of coming up just short isn't present. And the realization of what Obama truly accomplished can be appreciated.