Black History Month

 The Super Bowl was played yesterday.  The Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears 29-17.  Billy Joel belted out the National Anthem and the artist formerly known as Prince and now known as...Prince, made it through halftime without a hint of a wardrobe malfunction.  

The Super Bowl is always a focal point of the year.  The 2 day long pre-game shows, the television commercials, halftime fireworks and a whole lot more.  This year was no different....well, it was a little different.  Yes, this year, race played a key role in the Super Bowl.  

You see, Tony Dungy, the esteemed head coach of the Colts and Lovie Smith, who is taking the Bears to the big game for the first time since they destroyed my Patriots in 1986, happen to be black.  The fact that people write or report about that is, to me, an insult to them.  Dungy and Smith are perhaps the classiest football coaches in the game.  Their football mind and intelligence is a story.  They way they treat people with respect, that's a story.    The fact they are black is not a story.  It's this kind of hoopla that makes racial inequality live on.
I am not a racist.  At least I hope not.  I believe people should be treated equally no matter who they are, what color they are, no matter what size they are.  But I am tired of the whole black thing.  Tony or Lovie would not have gotten to where they are if they didn't perform.  They just happen to have a darker skin color than most other coaches.  That skin color did not help them become better coaches.  The fact that they are black is a non story.  Keep hyping it and we'll never reach MLK Jr.'s dream.

Come to think about it, there are a lot of "road blocks" out there that slow down our progress to equality.

Who came up with Black History Month?  Our country isn't old enough for racial recognition months.  Native American Month I can see.  But a month set aside frankly because of guilt?  

Did you know there is a National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association.  When is it a requirement for us to know who you are sleeping with and why does that matter.  Congratulations by the way for at least having someone.  

And yes, for those who require the construction of a nuclear powered propulsion system in Spanish there is The National Hispanic Engineer Association.
 

These groups and events do exist.  Here are a few that I doubt do.

• White Guy Day.  Every 5th Friday in February.  A day to reflect on and then apologize for any advancements to mankind.
  
• Heterosexual Day Parade.  Men and women march through Times Square and argue.
• Nobody loves me year-gay, straight or otherwise.  I've been celebrating this one for a while.

When you cut out the labels, we are all people. Someday, someone will realize that.

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