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* Jacob Weisberg of Slate is an either/or guy. If Obama wins, he writes, "we would finally be able to see our legacy of slavery, segregation and racism in the rearview mirror. Our kids would grow up thinking of prejudice as a nonfactor in their lives." But if he loses, "our children will grow up thinking of equal opportunity as a myth.... When handed a perfect opportunity to put the worst part of our history behind us, we chose not to." Reality is more complex than that. Legal restrictions on black voting were eliminated only as recently as 1965, yet since then a manifestly unqualified ...