[Alex Murphy]

But there's a massive silver lining in the magical clouds that lofted Barack Obama to the presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America:

The Era of White Guilt is over.

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[Verginius Rufus]

White guilt will continue to be used as an explanation as long as there are any areas where black people are behind white people--earnings, savings, house values, life expectancy, percentage of college graduates, etc. Why aren't there 13 black US Senators? The only possible explanation is racism!

The race card is too useful to be given up just because one person of African descent, not even a descendant of American slaves, is elected President. So far there have been 42* white men who served as President (36 individuals actually elected to the office)--until there have been 42 black Presidents I don't think "white guilt" will vanish.

So far there have been 46 Vice Presidents, of which 45 were white and one was part white and part Indian (Charles Curtis)...none were African American.

*Bush is actually the 42nd President, because the 22nd and 24th Presidents not only had the same name and same date of birth, but were actually the same person. So that village in Turkey where the villagers sacrificed 44 sheep to celebrate Obama's victory blundered--43 would have been enough.