Agree or disagree with the following statement and justify your answer: “The election of President Obama was not a victory for the civil rights movement but a sign of the increase diversity of the American population, which is generally more willing to accept people of color.”

this is my HIS classroom question:

145 years after the end of the Civil War, the United States elected is first black President.  In the primary, Barack Obama was running against a white woman, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  In the election, his opponent was an aging white war veteran, John McCain.

Please address all of the following.  Use sources to support your conclusions (and remember to cite them)

• Agree or disagree with the following statement and justify your answer: “The election of President Obama was not a victory for the civil rights movement but a sign of the increase diversity of the American population, which is generally more willing to accept people of color.”