Well, the new era of change began with a slightly better weigh-in this morning than yesterday, but it still wasn't great. I really have to pick it up the rest of this week. Why is it so hard?

You know, yesterday I contemplated the issue of race with regards to the Presidency. Today I contemplate it for a different reason.

On CNN.com there was an article today about a movie premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. This movie, Prom Night in Mississippi, is about a prom held in 2007 in Charleston, Mississippi. They had proms for years, of course, but this one was different; this was the first prom in the town to ever allow both black and white students to attend. Traditionally the town, only about 2,000 people in size, held TWO proms: one for white students, one for blacks. Last school year was the first time they offered an integrated prom night. They still held a "whites only" prom, but it turns out that the integrated prom was better attended and peaceful, while a fight broke out between two white boys at the whites-only prom.

Why is this of note? First of all, this isn't 40 years ago, or 30, or 20, or even 10. This was just last school year.

And this town, where they still offer a "whites only" prom, is only 66 miles from the town where I live.

Attitudes like that, offering a dance where admission depends on the color of one's skin, is just as stupid as the attitude that someone should vote for a black candidate simply because he's black.

It's great that the United States has elected a black President. But the day when a minority is elected to an office and NO ONE exclaims over it, because no one even notices that person is a minority, THAT'S when I'll believe that things have truly changed.