Gloria’s Reviews > The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency > Status Update

"One of the things I loved about my mother was not only did she not feel rejected by me defining myself as African American, but she recognized that I was a black man .... and my experiences were going to be different than hers. "

Well the statistics and facts regarding AA elected representatives at any level of American governance is most certainly depressing, especially when presented in one chapter, but also reminds me again of the emotional and historical power of Obama's election and the inauguration itself.