Sorry, Hawk, but I have to disagree. The racism may not be intentional, but it is what it is. That posts suggests that Powell, a man of integrity and accomplishment and bravery and compassion, who happens to be African American, achieved what he did by virtue of some white guy doing him a favor. Whether it was benign or overt, that is still a racist view and must be called out for what it is.

I am sure DougR sees himself as a nice guy, but those sentiments are not. And this is one liberal, progressive, PATRIOT that will no longer sit by and allow these delusional, pseudo McCarthys to lay claim to the values of the country that I have spent a lifetime loving and trying to improve.

Mick