Could Obamas election mean the end of the Black civil rights agenda?
If Barack Obama is elected president of the United States, most Americans will proudly celebrate it as a giant leap forward in our history. For African-Americans in particular, it will represent the latest and greatest chapter in our historical development from slavery to freedom and racial equality. But some will seek to use that milestone to argue that there is no longer any need for a Black civil rights agenda. They will point to the diverse coalition of Americans of all races who joined ranks to elect a Black man to the highest office in the land and argue that, therefore, racial inequality is a thing of the past. They are wrong.
