And Who Says We Live in a Colorblind Society?

Whether it was the arrest of Henry Louis Gates in his own home or the circulation by an anti-health care reform doctor Dr. David McKalip who serves as a delegate to the AMA of a racist doctored photograph of President Obama as a "witch doctor," this is all proof that race is very much a factor in American life.

I'd be indignant, too, if a police officer asked me to identify myself in my own home. I'd be indignant, too, if someone felt comfortable sending out a doctored photograph of me as an indigenous "witch doctor" when the debate about the reform of health care isn't being advanced by that email, but inflamed instead.

Which all goes to show us, right in our faces, that we are far from living in a post-racial society. Are you paying attention, Chief Justice John Roberts, from your cozy life? Are you paying attention, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who believe that Sonia Sotomayor doesn't have another perspective that might be an asset to the Supreme Court?