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The next coach to win a Superbowl will be a black man. That is an amazing thing to say. The next coach to win a Superbowl – and winning Superbowls is all coaches are evaluated on – will be a black man!

Now then, I wonder what impact it will have on the collective black psyche. I mean, lets look at it – the coach of the Chicago Bears, Lovie Smith went from a 5-11 record 2 years ago to the Superbowl. And he did it without a quarterback – a big deal since the greatest coach of all time, Joe Gibbs, won 3 Superbowls with 3 no-name quarterbacks (Doug Williams, Mark Ripien, and Joe Theisman) and Brian Billick won with Trent Dilfer. So this is a monumental occurrence.

And if you are smart, you’ll root for the Bears – or Peyton Manning to have a horrible game – because if the Colts offense overpowers the Bears defense, that’ll be Peyton Manning’s victory and not Tony Dungy’s.

In other news, Hillary and Obama are both running for President, and John Edwards is “as happy as a sissy in boy’s town” (No Lloyd). So let me get this straight, someone is gassing Barack Obama to run against Hillary – knowing that the Clintons play dirty, and making sure that Edwards or *gasp!* Gore have a cakewalk to the Whitehouse? Damn.

Folks just love to use us, huh.

As far as Barack goes, I’m just not totally sold. I really don’t know anything about what he stands AGAINST. See politicians are interchangeable when it comes to what they stand for – a healthy economy, schools, anti-crime – all those things are easy. A man is measured by what he opposes, and I haven’t heard much of that. He did co-sponsor immigration legislation with McCain, so he may be a good guy yet. I just don’t know.

I will confide that I am bothered by the implications of his Presidential bid for election. He is not an ethnic black American. He certainly is a racial one, no question – but not an ethnic one, and I have to question white America’s rush to embrace a man who is not a descendant of slaves.

Another concern is that he is being propped WAY too high, given his lack of having led ANYTHING aside from the Harvard Law Review before. Things like this are sort of invitations for failure. Hey, govern Illinois for a term and then make the run. Then again, the optimist in me figures that it is a set up to allow my man in Massachusetts to make a serious bid. Now that would be good shit.

Anyhow, enjoy the Superbowl. It’s a win-win for Black America, so long as Peyton has a sucky game.