“No taxation without representation!” the American forefathers in 1776 declared to the British royals in response to the Stamp Act after tea had already been dumped into the sea during the Boston Tea Party. With that declaration backed by elaboration of the American Constitution, the American founders set off an unprecedented revolution toward freedom and equality that was echoed a dozen years later by the French in their revolution to send monarchic structures tumbling from Russia to the Austrian Hapsburgs over the next century.

Two hundred-odd years after that first American revolt against unfairness, a new revolution in global racial openness is being set off by a nation of Americans declaring the same statement their forefathers made. They are taking their stand against the conservative Party in power that has enriched the privileged white elite while bankrupting the country’s financial institutions.

The American people, in 2008, on being told to finance a trillion dollars worth of corporate bailouts with their tax money, are rising up in true revolutionary fashion by admitting to deep-seated, historically based myths about racial differences that never made any more sense than the long-debunked global social lie that entitlement by virtue of privileged birth predicated the financing of an elevated social position by “lowers” for the sake of a secure social order.

In the weeks leading up to the 2008 American presidential election, Americans are mounting moral armaments to confront deep-rooted personal conflicts about racial issues. Those admissions are showing up in polls such as one in an AP-Yahoo News story published on September 20, the week of the Wall Street meltdown. The extreme moral exercise of admitting to bias may be linked to the realization that the time has come, that the state of the nation makes a revolution against the old order just as essential to personal and national dignity as the first one in 1776.

The “shot heard round the world” in 2008 America, as it was in 1775 Concord, was the announcement by Republican presidential candidate John McCain that he had chosen Sarah Palin to be his vice-presidential running mate.

The arch-conservative Alaskan woman who would take America back to the cave has been dubbed by Bill Maher as “Bush in drag.” The Bush to whom reference was made is the current US President who treasonably led the country into a war and who is now engineering the trillion dollar bailout for the financial institutions he let run wild through decontrols. That President has claimed executive privilege to deprive Americans of constitutional rights throughout his eight-year term, the same way Sarah Palin and her husband are avoiding an honest inquiry into her actions as governor of Alaska.

A laundry list of presidential power abuses are just a Google away. The offer of another four years of such an assault on the American public is beyond insult of the intelligence. It is a viral reliance on either the good will or the dupability of the American public. The upshot, however, is that the next shot from America to be heard round the world will come on election day, November 4, when Barack Obama, Joe Biden, the Democratic party, the American people and the entire world win the 2008 US election by a landslide.

For that shot to be heard, America must give itself a crash course in coming clean about racial bias. Racial-bias-cure 101 starts with admitting that every race has biases against others, that groups of people have biases against other groups, and that individuals have biases galore.

The second step in getting beyond racial bias, or any other bias, is to accept the fact that a bias is neither a sin nor a crime. It simply exists as part of perception. The important element is to not let it limit interaction and discourse so as to have it interfere as little as possible with making right choices.

The final step in relegating racial bias to the garbage bin of history where it belongs, is to recognize and admit that white privilege exists at the present time and inequities of its historical effects also exist. A vigorous and open debate about those matters will not bring about instant remedies. It will, however, lead to perceptual change.

In the end, as election day nears and life gets better for the American people after the revolution regardless of new struggles, it may turn out that racial bias is not so much a matter of judgment about others as it is simple human discomfort at unfamiliarity.

Centuries of social and economic segregation have kept the world’s people apart. America, in its 200-odd years as a country, has brought them all together with its Constitutional freedoms and safeguards. The revolution now is all about the American people getting comfortable with each other at lightning speed.