Do we really realize how big a change this is?

Just now, I'm sitting here, watching "The News Hour with Jim Lehr" on our local PBS channel, KCPT and Gwen Ifill is shown interviewing the top law enforcement chief and Attorney General Eric Holder at the National Press Club and it hit me immediately.

Here was an African-American female reporter of some skills, notoriety and import, interviewing another African-American of some incredible power in this Presidcent's administration, and he also, of course, happens to be African-American.

To an extent, we take this all for granted but we really shouldn't--we really can't.

It is a huge, watershed movement in our country and our country's history and we need to recognize the importance of all this change and advancement.

At the same time, there were two articles in The New York Times today, pointing out how far we still have to go, too. Here were the Headlines:

"The Supreme Court's Hostility to the Voting Rights Act" and

"Homeownership-Losses Are Greatest Among Minorities, Report Finds"

As always, as Stevie Wonder said, "Them that has, gets."

And them that doesn't have, gets screwed.