The world woke up to news stories focusing on "black America's" reaction to Barack Obama's presidential nomination speech. TV images beamed pictures of African-Americans swelling with pride and tears of joy in their eyes. If you weren't sure this was a seminal moment for black America, the talking heads trotted out so-called leaders like the Rev. Jessie Jackson and celebrities like Oprah Winfrey to tell you so.

But the bigger part of the story is this - Barack Obama won the nomination. And he could not do that solely with the black vote. What I took in while listening to the presidential candidate's speech was the look on the faces of the sea of while people at the New Mile High Stadium, the site of the Democratic convention.

If the stadium were a bowl, one could say that it was filled with salt and a few specs of pepper. And the salt was there to celebrate a spec as its leader. And it did not seem like salt cared that pepper was pepper
And that is what made me proud. Just 20 years ago, I would have never expected salt to nominate pepper as a leader of the free world.
It's proof times are changing for the better.