” . . . Dr. Franklin could not [himself] escape the legacy of discrimination. In a talk he gave in North Carolina . . . he recalled that on the evening before he received the medal at the White House, a woman at a Washington club asked him to fetch her coat, mistaking him for an attendant, and that a man at his hotel had handed him car keys and told him to get his car.”

When that sort of thing becomes a quaint anomaly, then we’ll know we’ve arrived.