While Barack Obama takes the oath as the 44th president of the United States -- and the first African-American U.S. president -- on Tuesday, Tom Morello reflects on the racism he's encountered in his own life. "I had a noose in my garage when I was 13-years-old and was called the 'N' word countless times growing up," he tells Spinner.

It's those difficult experiences that left Morello touched by Obama's victory. "On election night, I was moved in a way that I didn't anticipate," he says. "There's a unique experience that African-Americans have, who have been exposed to prejudice. I never thought I would live to see the day when the country, whose history is just replete with racism, was able to elect a somewhat progressive African-American to the highest office in the land."

Though he is optimistic about Obama, Morello is not ready to give up his one-man revolution just yet. "Obama's stated positions are much too centrist for my taste," he says. "I always laugh when the Republicans would say, 'He's a Socialist or he's a Marxist.' I'm thinking, 'Man, if we really did have a black Marxist as president, that'd be fantastic.'"