Yes, Ford always put a little Roger Maris asterisk next to that cam for that issue. "Where we are now" is interesting, but how we got here, from the historical perspective, can be even more interesting. Kind of like the supreme court taking on the gay marriage issue. How many of our founding fathers really had that on their mind when they penned out the verbiage of the Constitution?
But it's the travelling itself, not the end destination. Dred Scott, Korematsu, Plessy... it's all in the journey.