On Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, the morning after Election Day, a black man approached a white stranger in the parking lot at Bojangles on 23rd Street.
“I guess what happened last night was your worst nightmare,” the black man said.
The white man, who just wanted a chicken biscuit, did not reply.
Were incidents like this, many wondered at the time, what life was to be like under Barack Obama, the first black president in the country’s history?
Fast forward seven and a half years.