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Extraordinary image. 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation is signed and the 14th Amendment ratified--the blink of an eye in historical terms--a man of African descent stands in the doorway of of Senegal's Door of No Return, through which shackled men and women passed, en route to slavery in North America. The same view of the Atlantic they saw is seen by this man, whose ancestors left in bondage, but who returns as President of the United States. Regardless of the politics of the hour, this is a moment and an image that should stir every American heart.