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Status quo?

It was the city her father never made it to in 1968, the year he began the campaign that finally ended for Obama on the night of Nov 4.

“My father said this would happen,” she said. “You can look up the exact quote, but he said that in 40 years an African-American would be President.”

The exact quote is from May 27, 1968, a week before Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles after winning the California primary, the night he closed his speech at the Ambassador Hotel by saying, “Now it’s on to Chicago [for the Democratic National Convention] and let’s win there.”

A few days before our Triborough Bridge is renamed in her father's honor, these are the prophetic words to which Kerry Kennedy referred: “Things are moving so fast in race relations. A Negro could be President in 40 years. There is no question about it. In the next 40 years, a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.

“Prejudice exists and probably will continue to ... but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.”

- Bobby Kennedy’s dream of a black president comes true after four decades, NYDailyNews.com, November 16, 2008.

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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.