Obviously if Obama gets to be president that wouldn't mean that racism is dead in America (and any attempts to claim that it did would deserve to be challenged). But it would be a powerful symbol that it had been dethroned.
-McGrath of Harlow

I strongly agree with this statement.

I believe that Barak Obama recognizes that his becoming president would not mean the end of personal and institutional racism within the United States. However, I believe that a President Obama would diligently work toward the eradication or diminution of institutional racism and other forms of inequity within this nation.