This is from my friend Betsy, who lives in Virginia and a few weeks ago told me in anguish about the N-word being used to deface Obama signs. Here is the beginning of the column she sent me and the link to the whole thing is at the end:
The New York Times, Nov. 5, 2008
And so it came to pass that on Nov. 4, 2008, shortly after 11 p.m. Eastern time, the American Civil War ended, as a black man — Barack Hussein Obama — won enough electoral votes to become president of the United States.
A civil war that, in many ways, began at Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861, ended 147 years later via a ballot box in the very same state. For nothing more symbolically illustrated the final chapter of America's Civil War than the fact that the Commonwealth of Virginia — the state that once exalted slavery and whose secession from the Union in 1861 gave the Confederacy both strategic weight and its commanding general — voted Democratic, thus assuring that Barack Obama would become the 44th president of the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/opinion/05friedman.html
