Apparently, even the gods are racist, choosing not to bless African-Americans with the 2017 total eclipse. </sarcasm> From The Atlantic:
American Blackout
A tour of the solar eclipse’s path reveals a nation that fought to maintain a different sort of totality. Totality is everything, say those who chase solar eclipses. When the moon fully obscures the sun and casts its shadow on Earth, the result is like nothing you’ve seen before-not even a partial eclipse.