If I had a dollar for every time the media have pointed out that Barack Obama is the nation’s “first African-American President-Elect” this past week, I’d be able to bail out AIG single-handedly.

Since election night, it feels as though there’s been non-stop, wall-to-wall, absolutely breathless reporting of the amazing firstness of it all.

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