WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Toward a more honest discussion of race. “With the election of President Obama, race relations in America have obviously come a long way since former Ku Klux Klan member Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1952. Just as clearly, there is still a long way to go before our society attains the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that his children ‘will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.'”