Dear Black America:

...Obama in the White House means we don't want to hear about how White America is racist ever again. In fact, Obama's job is now to make sure you understand we are officially absolved of any and all racial guilt from here on out as far as we're concerned because he only lost the White vote by 14 points or something, so get over it.

Thanks.

Signed, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.

A man of mixed race has now reached the pinnacle of U.S. power only two generations since the end of Jim Crow. This is a tribute to American opportunity, and it is something that has never happened in another Western democracy -- notwithstanding European condescension about "racist" America. That blacks voted for Mr. Obama so heavily is a typical rite of American passage, and it is similar to the kind of cultural pride that Catholics took in the victory of John Kennedy in 1960.

While Mr. Obama lost among white voters, as most modern Democrats do, his success is due in part to the fact that he also muted any politics of racial grievance. We have had in recent years two black Secretaries of State, black CEOs of our largest corporations, black Governors and Generals -- and now we will have a President. One promise of his victory is that perhaps we can put to rest the myth of racism as a barrier to achievement in this splendid country. Mr. Obama has a special obligation to help do so.

Yes, racism is dead in this country just because a black man is President-Elect. That solved everything as far as the WSJ is concerned. I'm sure we won't see any sort of white supremacist backlash at all.

Buckle up, kids. When that backlash does happen, guess who'll be blamed for it by "flaunting their victory"?

Gotta love the post-racism era.