| Sumario: | Although strenuously denied by most involved, much of the discourse around the U.S. 2008 presidential campaign focused on issues of race. Then a senator for Illinois, President Barack Obama was beleaguered by accusations about his background and his church in a way that the white candidates involved were not. As Obama made headway in the primaries, his wife, Michelle Obama, became the target for an ugly nexus of racist and sexist epithets, including hints that she should be lynched for her supposedly unpatriotic attitude. However, the Obama campaign also demonstrated that substantial numbers of non-blacks were perfectly willing to vote for a black president. Despite its apparent endorsement of the myth of a post-racialized U.S., the Obama campaign successfully mined a deeper longer for a true racial unity.
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