A reader writes:
My phone has been ringing off the hook, with nothing but screams from my Black friends and family: a "HE WON", and then an "I'll talk to you tomorrow".
My mother, born in Jim Crow Mississippi in 1930, just shook her head - she couldn't believe it.
Believe it. In snow-white Iowa. This moment has been a long time coming. And the wheel of American history just moved forward.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/01/awakening/221852/
