Barack Obama is the best thing to happen to race relations in America since the Civil Rights Act.  Rather than lead with the black as victim language of those who have wrested the civil rights leadership baton from the MLK generation, Obama uses words intended to unite and inspire.  When MLK spoke of a dream could he have even hoped that a black man would be on the verge of calling the White House home a relatively short 45 years later?   More important than running as an alternative to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination,  Obama offers an alternative to the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton victim and perpetrator approach that is divisive and self serving, an adversarial dynamic that has set back race relations in this country.