John McWhorter on Obama’s election

John McWhorter had a characteristically thoughtful and serious piece on Obama’s election in Forbes a few days back. Don’t miss it. I’m sorry the Sun won’t be around to carry his column anymore, but it’s good to see Forbes running him, and I hope it’ll be a regular occurrence.

(The piece also contains a hilarious typo that only 3,000 people live in Vermont, as opposed to 3,000 black people, but that’s neither here nor there.)