"We will bury you" - Old words, new context in a new century

I remember a conversation last summer with a woman who told me she grew up in Czechoslovakia. It is now two countries: the Czech and Slovak republics. She grew up in Czechoslovakia before the end of the Communist system. She asserted to me that there's more brainwashing in the U.S. than there was in her Soviet-linked homeland. In turn this made me think of my life in proximity to U.S. politics, especially during and before the 2000, '04 and 2008 presidential elections. I feel we are not out of the woods. 

People and media are chattering about making history with installing Barack Obama. Just one of the funny things is, the rationale only seems to go back to "the Civil Rights movement," the early 1960s, or the '50s if people are particularly "knowledgeable" about "the past." But Black American history goes back to the 1850s and 1750s; and no one is talking about how or even if Barry Obama represents something from back then, and if he does, what it is.

In fact, what Mr. Obama actually represents is not Black America, but various slaveholding families of white America. But why bog down events or confuse anyone with facts? Rather than work to elect the United States' first Native American or Black American president, here we are today. It feels as though someone is trying to bury Black America - who we are and our history - alive. This in turn makes me remember the words of Khrushev in 1956. 

In November 1956, then-Soviet ruler Nikita Khruschev addressed Western diplomats, as recounted at the time by TIME magazine:  

At the final reception for Poland's visiting Gomulka, stubby Nikita Khrushchev planted himself firmly with the Kremlin's whole hierarchy at his back, and faced the diplomats of the West, and the satellites, with an intemperate speech that betrayed as much as it threatened.
  
"We are Bolsheviks!" he declared pugnaciously. "We stick firmly to the Lenin precept—don't be stubborn if you see you are wrong, but don't give in if you are right." "When are you right?" interjected First Deputy Premier Mikoyan—and the crowd laughed. Nikita plunged on, turning to the Western diplomats. "About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"