Joe Biden will be the 46th U.S. president.Paraphrasing the great activist, satirist, and comedian Dick Gregory, my first response is, “I know the U.S.
very well. I spent 20 years there one week.”Fifty years ago, he made this comment about his experience of racism in the American Southeast, where Jim Crow segregation was no longer legal but remained common practice.
As much as any other, this presidential election demonstrated the deep divide that exists in those unified under the flag of the U.S.