IF you had not, in your post, anchored so many of your observations to the fact of Powell being an African American, Doug, the racist overtone (unintended or not) would never have been inferred. You should take responsibility for that unnecessary emphasis. You made a direct implication that his accomplishments were related to his race, rather than based on his merit. I KNOW you did not mean to imply it was special treatment, or undeserved, but why, then, keep repeating the fact of his race if you did not mean to emphasize it?


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