When we talked to people, this would come up: was this struggle that Harold Washington in his campaign and as mayor engaged in, was it really about race or was it really about power? And I don't think you need to actually have one or the other. The two are connected. Racism...this is the thing that lots of white Liberals missed I think about the Obama presidency...is that racism is not about white people just being more polite, or accepting one or two Black people into whatever group, company, classroom or whatever...racism is a structure of power and oppression where one group is unfairly dominant over another. And so the reason why Harold Washington was so threatening, to the machine and to large parts of white Chicago was because that he intended and did change the arrangements of power and control in the city.