Brooklyn’s Colson Whitehad, author of John Henry Days, The Intuitionist and The Colossus of New York and the upcoming Sag Harbor penned a terrific Op-Ed in yesterday’s Times. Here’s an excerpt:

OVER the coming days and weeks, there will be many “I never thought I’d
see the day” pieces, but none of them will be more overflowing with “I
never thought I’d see the day”-ness than this one. I’m black, you see,
and I haven’t gained a pound since college. I skip breakfast most days,
have maybe half a sandwich for lunch, and sometimes I forget to eat
dinner. Just slips my mind. Yesterday morning, I woke up to a new
world. America had elected a Skinny Black Guy president.