As the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee and a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, the White House is hopeful Rangel will prove influential with several other undecided House Democrats.
The election of a black man to the White House is a huge triumph.
Beyond these voters' changing perceptions, the reality is that in January, a black family is moving into the White House.
Fifty years later, the elderly Irish wife astounds the recently deceased black couple's grandchildren by claiming the house is really hers and they need to move out.
They will also be asking whether what Mr Carter describes could really happen in America and, of course, if the country is ready to put a black man in the White House.
We understand today that the White House has been informed that a settlement is very close for the black farmers, and the Justice Department is working it out.
Some people may have seen his speech at the Democratic Convention, or heard that he rocked the house, and they may be disappointed, but the mainstream is not ready for a fire-breathing black man.
He astutely turns the tables to show the house being repurchased by progressive whites in what is now a black neighborhood in 2009 Obama-era America.
Video from CNN affiliate Central Florida News 13 showed white smoke rising from a large, black hole in the one-story house, which is surrounded by trees.
Why is the President meeting today in the White House with the racially segregated Congressional Black Caucus, which rejected the membership applications of Democrat Congressmen Pete Stark of California and Steve Cohen of Tennessee because of their white skin?
An excellent solution, for landlords who can afford to do so, is to pay off enough of the mortgage so that the house edges into the black and no depreciation or other deductions go to waste.
And they find the House a rotten launching pad for higher office, because running in a 60% black district is poor preparation for a statewide campaign.
Not everyone is convinced of America's willingness to elect a black man to the White House, but elections expert David Bositis thinks Mr Obama can overcome any lingering prejudice.
Dr Shakoor's black Toshiba Satellite laptop, stolen from the house on the night of the fire, is also not yet traced.
Behind its famous black door, 10 Downing Street is more like an elegant private house than the hub of a modern government.
Aberystwyth University said music at the Black House gig was stopped so the mother and baby could be found, but it is understood they had already left.
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