I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

Where do real conversations about citizenship occur? In our schools. Think about the things you learned in first grade. "My Country 'Tis of Thee," "I pledge allegiance to the flag," "America the Beautiful."

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.