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To: epicure who wrote (94873)	11/8/2008 6:30:21 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541490

I think it caused a sea change overnight. I see the difference in the kids I teach. They still don't totally believe it happened- it's that big for them. That particular sea change was inevitable and not what I had in mind. When this was discussed on the thread many moons ago, there was a difference of opinion about what this would mean in terms of the end of the civil rights era, of identity politics. I thought and still think that, while there is certainly mopping up left to do, that this is effectively the end. What we fought for in the sixties has been accomplished and Obama is the exclamation point. There was opposition to that here on this thread. Even the day after the election I saw a black identity group leader cautioning us that nothing had changed in terms of the plight of black people. I expected that it would be business as usual for the identity group leaders who have a career interest in its continuation and who are constitutionally incapable of giving up the victim role as well as for the lefties who have continued to enable them past the point where discrimination was reasonably considered to be a big institutional problem. Since someone who might considered part of that identity group politics suggested otherwise, I gave it a "wow." I was encouraged by that piece. Maybe it's a fluke or maybe