Politics & Prose | Capital Commentary

Politics & Prose | Capital Commentary  Amy Black's book is essential to my book proposal as a competing work.  Harris' piece is interesting precisely because Obama, as the son of an African graduate student rather than American slaves breaks the mold of the standard black power politician.  Before he was elected I blogged that anyone who claimed vindication for the descendants of west African slaves due to his election would be wrong (as Obama's white ancestors actually owned slaves).  Now that the color line has been broken, however, the whole idea of impossibility has been broken.  Expect that with the reverse migration back to the South that one day a black southern governor may find his way into the White House.