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The Michelle Intro

By The Daily Dish

Aug 25 2008, 10:35 AM ET

It hits you, doesn't it? I'm watching all the usual biography for a first lady and president and listening to her brother and realizing: black Americans - proud, unapologetic, culturally mainstream African-Americans - are now running this show. I knew this was coming. But watching it, even in these tiny ways, is striking.

How great that is; and how long a time it has been coming. Whatever happens in this crazy election season, this matters.



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