As a child of the '60's, I actually led an effort in Rachel Maddow's home town to allow schoolgirls to wear pants in winter.
And yeah, that became policy in 1968.
Rachel didn't freeze her ass off in school because we changed the dress code.
Just a bunch of kids made life warmer for all kids here.
So what does that have to do with President-elect Obama?
I will explain after the fold.
I must give my virulently anti-racist parents great credit for raising me as an anti-racist USA patriot.
But I was always the first of 4 sons to bring bad words home.
When I brought the "F" word home, I was challenged to find it in a dictionary.
Didn't find it.
When I brought the "N" word home (I had no idea whatsoever what it meant), no dictionary challenge was allowed.
Instead, I got to eat soap.
Not the the pleasant tasting Ivory, but the evil Dial soap featuring the brain damaging and banned in the early '70's hexachloraphene.
(Phisoderm used to be Phisohex before hexachloraphene was banned).
Fast forward to today.
One of the proudest moments in my life was when a black coworker told me that "You are the most color blind white man I have ever known".
I take great pride in that. And so do my parents.
Yesterday, I very proudly voted for Obama because he is the best person.
I voted for the best person, and race and gender is worthless to me.
And guess what- We WON!.