Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday, 2009

Consider with me the sad irony as darker-brown-than-most hyphenated Americans celebrate a brave man's birthday.

Today, we celebrate the birth of a man who was assassinated in the course of demonstrating his bravery before the world. He said

. . . "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!: . . .

Tomorrow, we will witness the coronation inauguration of a man whose followers love him because of his skin color, and a sizable majority of them are completely unaware of the content of his character.

This is a happy day for America. Tomorrow, January 20th, 2009, will be a sad day for America, and truly the beginning of a new (set of) error(s)