On the night that President Barak Obama was elected, I called Mamie, my
mother’s best friend – still alive at the age of 102. When this grand-daughter of freed slaves answered the phone, without saying hello I asked, “Mamie, Can you believe what just happened?”
I will never forget Mamie’s words as long as I live,”ls there anything too hard for the Lord?”
Now nearly eight years later we ask that same question as we seem to have made less progress than we had hoped concerning Racism-America’s ailing and illegitimate child with Slavery.




