Regardless of the fact that Obama for the most part kept away from racial debate, the racial imagery of his decision and introduction was lost on nobody. Obama had won about 43 percent of white votes and overpowering greater parts of African Americans and Latinos. Harvard teacher Henry Louis Gates called Obama's decision "a supernatural transformative minute . . . the typical summit of the dark flexibility battle, the fantastic accomplishment of an awesome aggregate dream."[2] Many pundits contended that Obama's triumph proclaimed another post–civil rights period in the United
