The Real First Black President?

Did South Carolina change anything? Is there any logic or sanity to all these primaries? While I have to admit that the whole process seems antiquated and a waste of time, it seems as though something has changed since Obama’s overwhelming victory in the South Carolina primary. Here’s just a couple of the tremors coming from last Saturday.

First there was the speech. I’ve listened to both Obama’s New Hampshire losing candidate speech and the South Carolina winning speech. To say they are inspirational is an under statement. The more he speaks, the more people are drawn to him like a bug incapable of staying away from a warm porch light on a cool fall evening. Something has changed!

Then there was Caroline Kennedy!

Her long and articulate Op-ed in the New York Times was remarkable. I mean, here’s a woman talking about her father, Jack Kennedy, and saying that Obama stirs up reminders of her father: and, that her children are enraptured by Obama as well. Barack Obama can’t buy advertisements like that. Something has changed!

The very next day, word leaks out that Ted Kennedy will endorse Barack-Star today and go on a tour for a couple of days to stand with him. They are going West, where the Latino vote is, where Kennedy has a base, and where Hillary has built what’s now being known as a “Brown Firewall”. Can it be breached? With Ted’s endorsement, surely something has changed!

And we’ll know a lot more come Super Tuesday!

And now there’s Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison who famously declared Bill Clinton to be the nation’s “first black president”. He is endorsing Barack Obama for president today, an Obama campaign source tells ABC News. In an October 1998 essay in The New Yorker, Morrison wrote: “Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime.”

But now- something has changed!

There is truly a black man running for president who is articulate, intelligent, charismatic, and full of charm and hope. And he just may become the second black president- but the first with black skin!