Today’s the day we’ve all been waiting for (OK, well, maybe it’s just me) – the nationwide premiere of “The Express.” I’ve mentioned it before and won’t bore you all again with it, except to say that the movie is about the first black man to win the Heisman Trophy, and the release seems rather well timed.

With any luck, in less than a month we’ll see the first black man (even if he is more “mocha latte” than black) elected President of the United States.

Granted, it should have happened a lot sooner. It took white folks in this country about 95 years after the end of slavery to be sufficiently unintimidated enough to “allow” a black guy to be recognized as the best college football player in the country. And it’s taken another 57 years to bring us to the point where we might just be able to elect one president.

In fact – if we can be honest here – the only way in hell that Barack Obama won’t win in November will be if racism wins instead. I know Obama isn’t the perfect liberal, but let’s face facts here. McCain is a dangerous moron who’ll more than likely drop dead before his term is up, leaving us with an even bigger (and more dangerous) idiot in Sarah Palin. All at a time when this country is more fucked up in every way imaginable than it has ever been. I don’t know if Obama can fix things (I don’t know if anybodycan), but you’d have to be a bigot (or a damn fool) to think that John McCain can.

It’s just too bad Obama didn’t go to SU. It would’ve made for a better movie. They could’ve called it “Obama/Biden – the Boys from Syracuse.”