African Americans now lead both national political parties

I know – Barack Obama isn’t technically chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but he’s still the leader in chief of the his party.

And now Michael Steele heads the RNC.

He’s the first black man to hold the chairmanship of the Republican Party.

It’s been an amazing few months in terms of our society’s on-going negotiation with issues of race.

This can only be positive, in terms of the Republican Party’s coming-to-grips with the country’s changing demographic texture.

And I know people are getting tired of my rah-rah and my exceptionalism, but I think I’m being accurate when I say: Only in America.