I am practicing my own affirmative action when it comes to Barack Obama. I affirmatively went to his campaign website and actively hit the donate button and made a campaign contribution. Despite being a registered Republican, I did this because his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention moves me still. I did it because the fact that this black man is running for President of the United States of America is moving us forward in our discussion of race and possibility in ways that a thousand episodes of …