Skeexix: I said it.  In a fit of optimism I hoped President Obama's election was a step in the right direction.  I certainly did either feel or say his election meant the ordeal of racism and discrimination was "over".  We all knew in 2009 and know even more today that racism is "alive and well" in our country.  President Obama's election brought thousands upon thousands of "closet" racists out into the open.  We now have open celebrations by white supremacists/white nationalists. 

 I wrote ".. We elected a black man President and I, optimistically, though we were "on the way" toward racial harmony....boy, was I ever stupid ."  As I look around today I fear that over the last 8 years we not only didn't move forward toward racial harmony, we may have moved farther from it.  I certainly don't blame President Obama.  I feel he's a truly decent, honorable man who did his best to "work together" with a very hostile GOP controlled Congress dedicated to his failure.  Gary Crum