In a way I think the world changed this week. Well, not changes but turned a corner, and a huge one at that. If you think about it, in terms of history, having a black man leading the world’s only superpower is phenomenal; it has never happened before. As we all know, black people have always been repressed at the hands of white people. it wasn’t very long ago that white people thought black people were an ‘inferior race’; some people still do, fools though they are. I know I am using a fundamentally unsound racial dichotomy here, inasmuch as the very idea of race does not, or rather should not, exist, when you think about it, the fact that we now have a black man where before only white people ruled, from the Caesars of Rome, the monarchs of Europe, the tsars of Russia, down to the prime ministers if Britain and the presidents of the united states up to this week, beggars belief. In this sense then, we have entered a new era, and it’s about time too.