… I am greeted on my way out of the post office, having frantically shoved some additional wedding invitations into the mail before they closed, by the tiny old Japanese lady in four-inch heels and full-on geisha makeup who had been in front of me in line, complaining that the disgruntled grill-wearing black postal worker behind the counter had been “very, very rude and prejudiced” toward her.

I look up to see a black guy and a white woman with her kid standing behind my car, engaged in a very heated argument. As I approached, it became clear that what started the fight was the big OBAMA sticker on my rear window; and the woman hustled her kid away, almost embarrassed, yelling apologetically, “But that’s what I love about this country! We can TALK about these things!”

Black dude yells back, “Amen! God bless America!”

Indeed.