Is America Ready for a Black President?

Now going back to the Presidential election, since it's such a hot news topic right now and seemingly timely for the discussion at hand. As I was watching Reliable Sources this morning on CNN. Howard Kurtz brought up a very interesting argument regarding race and Obama. Also, as a quick side note, In my opinion, here we are in 2008 and race is still such a predominant factor in deciding upon our next president. Why does the question of "Is America ready for a black President" repeatedly keep arising? And what does ready really mean? Jon Meacham, Newsweek Editor, was interviewed by the late Tim Russert on Meet the Press in which they discussed this very question. To answer the question Meacham said, "In theory yes but in practice no." He then went on to further explain. The video can be seen below:



However, I digress. Back to my initial statement, Kurtz asked a rather uncomfortable question, this morning on the show,"Are the media afraid to say that at least for some of Obama's detractors, that this is kind of code for not trusting a black man who grew up in Indonesia?" I feel that this was a rather appropriate question. It seems that the media's coverage and allegations have been unequal. Although all of the candidates, past and present, have had their share of media accusations, however, it seems that for Obama it has been unrelenting. Could this just be a sign that America may be more distrusting or discriminatory towards a black president, which may also answer the burning question of if America is really ready for a black president.