As I was driving to the church last evening for a meeting, I heard on the radio a replay of Hillary Clinton's roll call statement at the Democratic National Convention declaring that the assembled delegates should stand with one voice to nominate Barack Obama as their candidate for President of the United States.

It was an historic moment, and today, on the 45th anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed, "I Have A Dream," someone other than a white male will accept the nomination to the nation's, and some would argue, the world's, highest office.

I will not presume to try and articulate what this means to people of color.  Instead, I will encourage you to read an essay by Rev. Susan K. Smith, the senior pastor of Advent United Church of Christ in Columbus, Ohio.