IMO:

The whole "black" thing is only significant from the standpoint of:

1) There has never been anything but a white male as POTUS
2) Blacks during/pre civil war were slaves
3) Blacks were treated like utter dirt by the "general" (not all) masses up until the late 1960's (yes I know nearly 50 years ago, POTUS was born in 1961, well after the majority of travesties and way to young to feel the full brunt of racism of the 60/70s...throw in an Ivy league educations, and I'd say he was far from the average person)

As for being POTUS, last I checked a VAST number of "white folks" voted for him, more than blacks if you go by strict votes and not percentages. So all this equation is simply, rhetoric. The media focuses on the fact that he is black. The media showed primarily blacks during the entire coverage today. Is that a good or bad thing? Who knows. If it encourages folks to work harder from seeing the example set by POTUS, wonderful.

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