One Step Closer to True Equality in the USA

Last night the Democratic Party made history by nominating the first major-party African-American candidate for President, Barack Obama.

If anything, this decision gives me hope that over 500 years of European centric racism could be coming to an end in the USA. Won't end overnight but I feel that if Barak can be our president, we will see a light at the end of the tunnel. I've encountered way too many racists this year, some my own blood. Segregation continued in this country legally until the year I was born, 1967. This campaign gives me hope that we are turning a corner to realize Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream, similar to the dream of Ethiopean President Haile Selassie as illustrated in a speech to the UN in 1963:

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained...