During the campaign, some media hay was made of McCain’s slave-owning relatives. No one dared to mention what businesses the Obama forebears in Africa must have engaged in.

Obama is not descended from slaves, unless there’s what used used to be called “a touch of the tarbrush” in his Kansan side. He is very likely descended from slave-traders.

Now, every culture has had its version of slavery. Among other things, I’m part Iroquois and part Huron–half my ancestors ate the other half. No one should be huffy about lineage that way. Around the end of his first term, Obama will get a lesson in that.