Now that America has finally elected a black president there is a movement afoot to take away the significance of this moment.

I was riding along the turnpike the other day and I struck up a conversation with a token booth worker, who I’ve talked with for the last fifteen years driving this route.

            “So we have a black president, huh?” I said to him as I handed him my ticket and money.

            “Why do people keep saying that?” he said. “His mother is white! So he’s not just black.”

            “Okay. But he’s still black,” I said.

“So Tiger Woods is black, too, I guess,” he said, chuckling.

“Exactly. He sure is.”

If Barack Obama wins the race for the presidency, what will it mean for race in this country? Will America have to put aside all of the unreasonable opinions and prejudices and out-and-out racist ideas and start to view itself as finally united? Will we begin to view each other individually-not as black people and white people but as Americans?

I am publishing a book this spring entitled “Why Men Fear Marriage.” It is written by a very talented author, who has a bunch of successful novels. As a man, in his thirties who has been running away from the altar, he wanted to put the reasons why in a book for women—all women—to gain some insight into the mind of a man. It’s brilliant. There’s only one problem. He’s black.

Two Neo-Nazi skinheads were arrested yesterday in a plot uncovered by The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms uncovered to assassinate Barack Obama and kill 88 blacks students in Tennessee

This is just the beginning.