In "Guess who's coming to dinner" (1967), Joey Drayton, a young white woman, wants to marry John Prentice, a black man.   Joey's father Matt worries about the world that their children will grow up in.

John: She [Joey] feeIs that all of our children will be president of the United States and they'll all have colorful administrations [...]

Matt: But how do you feeI about that problem?

John: Well, frankIy, I think your daughter is a bit optimistic. l'd settIe for secretary of state.

Assuming the film refers to a couple around 1965, and that their children would have been born around 1970, Joey had the better guess at the rate at which society would change.

Colin Powell was born in 1937 and became secretary of state in 2001. Barack Obama was born in 1961 and elected president in 2008.

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