SF Gate, August 20, 2008 - “If Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy has indeed placed race in the spotlight again this election season, then the Census Bureau’s new projections that white America is fading into minority status much faster than previously thought offers a glaring view of the fissures that continue to spider web our republic. The meteoric rise of Obama’s fortunes and the potential success - or failure - of his run for the White House has provoked much soul-searching about whether America ‘is ready’ for a black president; the subtext of which is really whether a black president might be somehow intrinsically different than a white commander in chief beyond that extra helping of melanin.” Read more.