...with no racism nor sexism nor ethnic bigotry of any kind, every once in a while a black, or an asian, or a hispanic, and/or a woman of any color or ethnicity, would be elected President, and it would be no big deal, nothing to get excited or panicked about, no great cause for celebration nor alarm, because statistically speaking these outcomes would in fact be more probable than not, as white males are a minority among the adult citizens over age 35 in America...

But it's NEVER happened. Not once. Nothing but a long, boring line of rich, white, anglo males in the gallery of Presidential portraits.

Obviously, although a great nation, we're still far from perfect, and we've still got a long way to go in overcoming sexism, discrimination, racism.

And it's precisely because it's never happened, this elusive, seemingly impossible "non-white male outcome", that President Obama's election this fall will be so hugely symbolic, a signal that we've finally broken through the barrier, and taken a big step forward into America's future...