{"id":3659,"date":"2011-02-08T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/02\/he-had-a-dream.html"},"modified":"2011-02-08T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T09:01:00","slug":"he-had-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/02\/he-had-a-dream.html","title":{"rendered":"He had a dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Of course, because of our post-modern, progressive society\u2019s tendency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostgame.com\/interviews\/201102\/how-much-has-rooney-rule-helped-black-coaches-nfl\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to take anything<\/a> and immediately interpret it through the prism of the color of people\u2019s skins, I doubt that dream will be coming true any time soon.\u00a0 Note that the story isn\u2019t focusing on the coach who, you know, won the Super Bowl.\u00a0\u00a0 Like the days when Michelle <span style=\"background-color: yellow\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">Kwan was promoted by the media because the media had already decided to promote her, and wasn\u2019t going to let a little thing like those girls who kept winning Gold Medals in the Olympics get in the way, I\u2019ve seen as many stories about Mike Tomlin as I have the Green Bay Packers in general, and mostly because of the color of his skin.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I know, it\u2019s Black History Month (a month dedicated to ensuring that MLK\u2019s dream doesn\u2019t come true anytime soon).\u00a0 And I don\u2019t have anything against Tomlin.\u00a0 He seems like a great guy.\u00a0\u00a0I just have to chuckle at the fact that we lionize, idolize, and almost worship MLK and hold as sacred his \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech, and yet continue to live the polar opposite way he was yearning for as we examine everything and everyone based on, yes, the color of their skin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, because of our post-modern, progressive society\u2019s tendency to take anything and immediately interpret it through the prism of the color of people\u2019s skins, I doubt that dream will be coming true any time soon.\u00a0 Note that the story isn\u2019t focusing on the coach who, you know, won the Super Bowl.\u00a0\u00a0 Like the days 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