[The Urban Sombrero]

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If the proposition is that President Obama sought to unbalance the cultural scales in favor of people of color, I dissent. All of us are somewhat captive to our times. President Obama was called upon to respond to several police shooting events. I do not view establishing a Commission to look into the rates of police violence against people of color as an attempt to unbalance the scales. I do not view an inclusion of courses examining the role and contribution of people of color to the history of the United States as unbalancing the scales. I do not view a forthright examination of America's troubled relationship with race and ethnicity as a necessary condemnation of "white" people. Conversely, I do not view transparency within "black" culture, examining joblessness and sperm donoring without true fathering, and other issues as racist. King's dream was of a time, a place where dignity, where value, where opportunity, where essential and basic respect were not tied to skin color. I will leave it to others to assess for themselves where this nation stands circa 2017 in this matter. My only interjection is this: we are not where we were in 1787, or 1887, but not sure in terms of 1987.