African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

