Over a decade and three presidential elections ago, America bore witness to a historic moment. The National Mall teemed with people, all longing to be part of a transition that had seemed unimaginable not so long before, both for a man and for a nation. The man was Barack Hussein Obama – the offspring of a Black father from Kenya and a White mother from Kansas whose family tree includes slave owners, among them, Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. The moment was the Presidential Inaugural – taking place on a cold, bright and breezy day 146 years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and forty-six years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.