The End of Whiteness

The Atlantic has a fascinating article about the "erosion of whiteness" within the United States and how, on the eve of a truly historic presidency, what has long been considered the cornerstone of America is now being threatened.

The Election of Barack Obama is just the most startling manifestation of a larger trend: the gradual erosion of “whiteness” as the touchstone of what it means to be American. If the end of white America is a cultural and demographic inevitability, what will the new mainstream look like—and how will white Americans fit into it? What will it mean to be white when whiteness is no longer the norm? And will a post-white America be less racially divided—or more so? ...

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Change is here!

We have a new President of the United States and I am THRILLED to bits. I think Michelle is super cool too. I have never felt more hopeful, and its a wonderful feeling.

I simply had to say that out loud.


(I still had to put the below picture because it was so funny!)


(at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London today. photo courtesy of Washington Post)