Answer: Not when the skin and hair of one's wife and kids are still making national headlines:
White mayor, black wife: NYC shatters an image
White mayor, black wife: Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio pictured in the 1980s
Son’s big hair gives Bill de Blasio a
New York’s Bill de Blasio first white
Bill De Blasio's Interracial
Bill de Blasio to People: Mom had
De Blasio Success Shows Sea Change for
Opinion: Meet the de Blasios, the new
Biracial Cool: Bill de Blasio's
Politicians From Interracial Families:
New NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Has An
New York’s Bill de Blasio first white
Son and his Afro lift de Blasio in NYC
Why the De Blasio Family Matters: Meet
The de Blasio family’s natural hair
I thought the same thing when I first saw one of these headlines last week. We (American society) are nowhere near as far along the path of racial progress as we'd like to believe when this is what makes his election significant. =(
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