On the Election of a Dark-Skinned Man

If you ask me, the striking thing is not that a black man was finally elected, but rather that there was ever a time when people were stupid enough to think such would be bad. Evil is the absence of due good. It is such stupidities as prejudice that are out of the ordinary in the proper sense of ordinary (not common, but rather rightly ordered), not things being as they ought to be. So I can see celebrating that the ordinary finally is becoming what it should be and certain evils are being remedied, but I think we've thrown our attention a bit too much toward what we ought to consider just plain old the way things should be and need to realize that the astonishing thing is the wrong way that we had to fix.

Of course, being in disagreement with our new president on some matters and especially on the matter of something I believe is an even graver evil than prejudice, and furthermore not being very agreeable to American politics and government in their current form at all, I'm not seeing much in the way of an overall gain today. I could say more on some other oddities related to such. However, I'd rather you just focused on the first point I raised: the extraordinary thing isn't what happened today, it's what happened in past days that today is supposedly remedying.