A Remarkable Figure In History

"Barack Hussein Obama is one of the most remarkable figures in black and American history.  His unlikely rise is not only, as he would have it, the beautiful completion of a trajectory of American exceptionalism.  It is, too, the triumph of an improbable black life that grew from a community where black death has been the norm for some of its most gifted leaders.

"We are exceedingly happy that he made it through alive.  We are crestfallen that the man succeeding him, like so many of those who voted for him, hated each breath that he drew."

                                                               -- Michael Eric Dyson