I have a nightmare.

Al, Hillary and Ray Nagin seem to have celebrated the MLK holiday by promoting racial divisiveness and passing out the race card. The radio talk shows have been playing the same clips all day.

Why choose King's birthday to do imitations of Jesse Jackson rhetoric? Apparently, because black people enjoy being pandered to, or at least that what has worked in the past, and they'll keep flogging that horse until its bones have been picked clean and bleached in the sun. You'd think they'd be tired of it, the promises that can't be kept, the elected officials who play the race card and then don't deliver, the being taken for granted and ignored when it comes time to deliver. Will it take another hundred years before they figure out that equal rights can only take you so far, before you have to take over and do something with the opportunities you have? Will they ever figure out that, even when you aren't being held down because of your race, it's still a struggle to make it, unless you're an heir to somebody else who had to struggle to make it? All those reparations yammerers should note how much character being an heir has developed in Ted Kennedy. Is that what they want for their children? Maybe so, but if so, they are still thinking the way the segregationists wanted them to, and Martin Luther King didn't.

Ray Nagin should be the most hated man in New Orleans after he did more harm than good to his city following Katrina, but as long as the media is preoccupied with blaming Bush for everything, he needn't worry. He seems to have learned more from The Reverands Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton with his talk of a "chocolate" city, which he later explained means something other than what everybody took it to mean. Smooth as milk chocolate, baby. I wonder where the miniature marshmallows come in.