You're Come a Long... Well, You've Come Some Way, Baby

The Audacity of Hope receives an unwanted reality check:

"As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll" (WP, June 22).

-W.