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Martin Luther King, Jr., looked to the day when people would be judged by their character rather than the color of their skin, and when we live in a color-blind society. Considering all the twittering by the white media over this Super Bowl, I guess we're not there yet.

I was at the Post Office the other day to get some stamps. The guy in front of me asked for commemoratives, and the clerk mentioned the Ella Fitzgerald commemorative. I heard that, and I immediately asked for it. Imagine my disgust when I saw that although it had her picture and name on it, it wasn't a commemorative for her, it was actually a commemorative for the fact that she wasn't white!

"Black Heritage!" Thanks for including me OUT! . . . and thanks for denigrating her by suggesting that she only mattered because she was black! She mattered because she was uniquely talented at what she did - and talented in a unique way.

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and thanks for denigrating her by suggesting that she only mattered because she was black!

Precisely. This is the not-so-subtle perpetuation of racism.