This weekend's NFL divisional championship playoffs were nothing short of fun to watch and the Colts/Patriots game was a real nail-biter all the way to the end. All in all, simply an awesome Sunday for football! Congratulations to the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts!! I'm extremely biased sooooo GO COLTS!!
Now, please allow me a moment here to get something off of my chest: This tendency of the press to make a big deal out of a person's sex or skin color when they accomplish great things just irritates the heck out of me. This USA Today article is the same old crap. I am SICK and TIRED of the press diminishing the accomplishments of people by labeling them. The fantastic talent, brains, and motivation of two great coaches and fantastic human beings are being underplayed so that the color of their skin can take center stage.
Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith deserve loads of credit for getting their teams to the Superbowl this year, just as every championship-winning coach deserves. The color of their skin is irrelevant. It's the spirit, the attitude, the talent, the brains, and the leadership that matter. If we are supposed to cheer on a coach just because of skin color, does that make me a bigot because I was pulling for the New Orleans Saints over the Bears this weekend? Nope. It's simply ridiculous.
In this day and age, it seems a shame that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "dream" continues to be thrown out the window. Oh sure, it's thrown around constantly by the "diversity" crowd; the problem is that they view diversity as a variety of skin colors. There is FAR more to diversity than skin color, folks. As for Dungy and Smith, I will echo Dr. King's dream for all people in my accolades for them: It's the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Congratulations to two great American football coaches! Good luck to you both in the Superbowl!
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