Hundreds of thousands of people will converge Tuesday on the nation’s capital. They will come to celebrate not just the election of the country’s first African-American president, but also to bear witness that the United States has overcome its ugly racial past. It’s embarking on a new era.

In 1968, my high school class chose “The Impossible Dream” as its song. Most of us believed we would never see a black man attain the highest political office in the country. No doubt President Barack Obama will speak of this monumental change during his inaugural address.

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