Forget the 60s--this is the next big thing. There will be children born after the first African-ancestry American President, or if an impossible turnover occurs, the first major campaign. Obama is Jackie Robinson, in the big leagues without the freedom to show anger.

Unlike Robinson, though, most of the country's elite is solidly in Obama's corner, with endorsements from all three major newspapers, much of the political establishment, many of the opposing party, and likely the entire cellphone generation, excluding those raised in gated communities or fundamentalist compounds.

Only the ignorant, the benighted, those that walk in the darkness of Rush Limbaugh radio propaganda are afraid to vote for the other. In the backwaters of Ohio you can get this: "He's going to put minorities in positions of power over white people." Like Colin and Condi, I guess. My children are waiting to be pleased with the older folks, or to be disappointed by our fear. They are way past it, laughing knowingly with Jon Stewart.

Fingers crossed, we are thinking about making arrangements to stay up late Nov. 4. It feels pretty good to know Levi Stubbs saw the dream coming before he died.