1.0 link 142511 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-weisbrot/after-four-decades-finall_b_142511.html The nation's capital came alive after 11 p.m. on election night, as thousands poured into the streets to celebrate a victory that everyone was calling historic. Car horns blaring, whooping and shouting, high fives all around, multi-racial crowds celebrating joyously. Historic it is, most obviously in the election of an African-American president, in a country where millions of black people could not even vote when the new president-elect was born. The rapper Jay-Z elegantly expressed the Obama campaign's connection to...

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