I guess in textbooks, the dependancy on race becomes history because you are the first of "your kind", it's a milestone for history, I suppose.Yet it shouldn't matter about one's color or gender, what matters is how much he can change the disdained politics, and society of its apathy. What is historic is Obama's ability to get hundreds, even thousands of first time voters to come out to exercise their right. What's historic is the man, not the color. We will just have to see how the future will play "his-story", and "her-story", for that matter, if Clinton had the nomination, either way they are both powerful and intellectual individuals. Nonetheless, the present is here, soon to be past, we need to pay more attention to the matters at hand, than the matters as a mark or timeline for textbooks.

History tends to repeat itself, I guess that's the saying, so what I am hoping for history itself to repeat is this individual chance to make his mark, not because of his color, but because of his ideals. Example such as Teddy Rossevelt or Ab Lincoln and thus is will be Obama, not "the first African American" president, but Barack Obama.