WAde – “I am not in a position to understand what it means to be black in this world today..” – If O wins, I think he’s likely to change your mind – and millions of others’ – about all that. Even if you resist his policies. He’s going to be Empath-in-chief. And he ain’t going to let black people off the hook either! Everybody has an imagination – Obama has repeatedly shown Americans how to use connecgt…

If you can get over your (understandable) fear of the Crowd (Good fences do make good neighbors!) – you’ll be struck by the integrated nature of O’s audiences. God knows I was. And so was O himself. He’s no dummy – he wouldn’t have run this time if he hadn’t seen those hungry crowds of black and whites and kids turning out for him when he went on the book tour for trhe reissue of “Dreams” in 05…Been living in a pretty cosmopolitan city for 30 years – but I’ve never seen the like…