Alright, I happily relent!

I think we may be seeing the break-through of a trend that has been obvious for many years now. Specifically, America being saved by a woman of color.

I have noted many times (elsewhere), how it often seemed to be women of color who come in and clean up the absolute mess made by white men. No matter what, you could always rely on these women to make things right, or as right as a disaster can be made to be.

They have toiled under the repressive and oppressive actions of establishment white men and women throughout our history on these shores. And yet, so often they manage to rise above the bullshit and straighten things out in the community.

Now, we see (through what may have been an incredible quirk of fate), a white man realizing he has no path to the finish line. A finish line he has been pursuing for forty years. His record has not always been a good one, with regard to how women of color were treated, but he made up for this, somewhat, by selecting a woman of color to be his VP in 2020.

And, now that he can read the writing on the wall (and got some lectures from fellow pols), he is stepping aside to clear the way, allowing that woman of color take the baton going forward.

I was pessimistic for the last few weeks about how things would play out, but I have to confess that I am somewhat giddy that Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee (sure, it isn't official, yet, but give it a week or two for the convention to rubber stamp it, most likely with unbridled enthusiasm).

Harris is in the most unique position of any politician in our history: a woman of color who has risen to the second-highest elected position in the nation, and is now running on her incumbency to attain the top job.

It won't be a cakewalk, but she is in an incredibly well-positioned place to take the election. Perhaps by a large margin, as the polls are up dramatically in key demographics since the baton was passed, showing a desire to see her win. The enthusiasm is historic, and even I have been unable to avoid it.

She is just getting started, but with this now becoming a race between a felon and a career prosecutor, her opposition is reduced to the sad caricature of a man we always knew him to be. And she looks larger by the day, towering over him. I look forward to her cross-examination.

Meanwhile, HIS chosen running mate has immediately become a drag on the ticket (even earning the moniker of "Shillbilly," which tickles my heart). HE initially backed out of a scheduled debate, because of the new, scarier opponent, only to waffle back into considering one because of the shame he was made to feel for cowering before a black woman. And his continual jabs at his prior opponent's age have, as happens whenever a fool pisses into the wind, come back at him.

Suddenly, a race that was fraught with trepidation and worry has become one of hope: Kamala is coming to put things right.

If she chooses Pete Buttigieg as her VP, all bets are off, and they may as well just give them the keys to the White House without the complication of an election.

But I want that election, of course. Not solely to see her win (which I fervently DO), but to see Donald Trump absolutely humiliated and tossed on the ash heap of history (although I would be content to see him thrown into a prison cell).

We may finally see a woman of color show the nation just what is possible when you pass the torch of leadership around equitably. We may see the ultimate in cleaning up white men's messes. This will be nothing new, of course, but it will be a glorious smashing of the glass ceiling, and the ultimate manifestation of the greatest struggle our nation has ignored for centuries: a woman of color asserting her rightful place as an equal partner in our great experiment.

In order to clean up nearly 250 years of white leadership's mess.

And I am SO here for it.