The Karma of Slavery

Elvis Dingledein (not his real name) waxes philosophical about his antebellum roots and how it's influenced his choice for president. Money quote:

That an American politician could so easily forfeit his sacred and hard-won honor to the altar of race-baiting and fear-mongering in pursuit of office defames the memory of those seven Negro men and women in my own ignominious personal history, and sullies the House that for them and generations of their kin would always be White. If Barack Obama represents the Better Angels of our national character, then John McCain and Sarah Palin are those shoddier souls that would have our house divided, forever unable to stand.

It's astounding that someone with skin the color of Senator Obama was, 145 years ago, viewed as personal property that could be willed to one's heirs as such. Was, only 44 years ago, a second class human being subjected to discrimination and denied basic human rights.