OK, let me get this out first. Do I think it's still tough being an African-American? Absolutely. I'm not na?ve. Things aren't nearly as troublesome for American blacks as they were, say, back in the 1940s and '50s. But there are sure plenty of prejudices and other barriers, mostly economic, that remain for people in the United States who happen to enter the world with certain skin pigmentations. Heartbreaking and absurd, yes, but true.

And yet, just as Barack Obama's presidential camp ...

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