What Do I Tell My Black Child If Obama Loses?

As an aside, the poem cited in Larry Elder's article is called "Incident" by Countee Cullen. It's still found in many American lit text books used in many US high schools. I have used it as part of a poetry unit on the "Harlem Renaissance" in my Jr American lit classes for many years. Incident Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, 'Nxgger.' I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember. (can't post with the "inappropriate language"; spell change)