It makes sense that African Americans, especially older blacks who lived through segregation and Jim Crow, would have been pessimistic about the chances of seeing a black man elected to our country's highest office. According to a CNN poll released earlier this week 71 percent of blacks believed that they would never see a black president in their lifetime, although 80 percent said that Obama's win was a dream come true.

On the flip side, 59 percent of whites believed they would see a black president in their lifetime, but just 28 percent considered Obama's win to be a dream come true. Well, the McCain voters have to fit in somewhere. Everyone came to a consensus on this: race relations will improve in some way as a result of Barack Obama's presidency. We shall see, won't we?