And there was much rejoicing.

When I was dropping the kids off at school today, there was an elderly black lady standing in the lobby. A stream of children, some gleefully shouting "Obama is President!", parted around her and ran off to class. She was silently holding two photographs: one of Frederick Douglass and one of Booker T. Washington.

I got the feeling that she wasn't showing the photographs to the children. She was showing Washington and Douglass what this day, this morning, finally looks like.

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