‘Only in America’

By Wayne Brown

Well, wasn’t that something, in The Land that Slavery Begat!

Exactly 200 years after the US ended its traffic in African slaves – and a mere half-century after the Civil Rights movement began – there was the lanky son of a black Kenyan and a white Kansan, joined by his classy African-American wife on stage in Minnesota last Tuesday night, and the two of them tall, beautiful, smiling and young, as Barack Obama confirmed to a huge, ecstatic – and mainly white – crowd that he was indeed now the Democratic nominee for president of the world’s lone superpower, in our time.