Pierre Toussaint, the 18th century Haitian slave, who was freed in New York by his master’s widow after they had fled the burning slave colony, then called Saint Domingue, in 1787, has been declared a candidate for beatification by the Vatican. This has not made him as famous a black American in the States or in the world as has the fortunes of Barack Obama, the hottest black male in America right now. He, of course, is running for President of the United States with a good chance of success, and may become the leader of the free world. He...