MLK was miss quoted

ESPN.com is currently running an "article" comparing what Martin Luther King was fighting for towards and the Super Bowl. What MLK did has nothing to do with sports, there are still problems with race relations and equality in America that are not miracously erased because Dungy and Smith made it to the Super Bowl. I would love to live in a society where sports could resolve everything and was the great equalizer. Like relocating a team in a sport; if crime in Baltimore doesn't decrease in two years, we're going to shut it down and make everyone move somewhere else. If i do well one year at my job I can refuse to go to work until they pay me more. I can publicly go on tv or the newspaper and criticize my boss and call he names, and he gets fired. I can take illegal substances, lie to police and court, and declare myself "the victim" and make society feel bad for not being as good as me. Man, I would love living in that world.

Truth is, yes Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy deserve to be in the super bowl and it hurts to say it, so do the teams. Dungy has been a class act for years, and they pretty much screwed him over in Tampa. He deserves to be there, but not because he is black. How people will watch the Super Bowl and be happy that there are two African Americans in the Super Bowl, we really are making strides in America. These same people on Monday will still lock there doors when driving in certain neighborhoods, will still cross the street when a young black man is walking towards them, will still work their middle to upper-middle class job that has only one "token" minority in the office, and will still watch a television program wit 90% white characters? This changes nothing. Minorities are still fighting for every inch they get in society and have not equalized. What if the Seahawks hadn't choked and lost that game or Dungy would have been fired two years ago like he almost was? Would this super bowl miraculously not mean as much in terms of race relations? What if Parcells and Shottenheimer had made it (I know Shottenheimer will never win a playoff game) would ESPN write an article about how much growth old white men have made? "Finally after all these years what Ronald Reagan had been fighting for has been realized and Parcells and Shottenehimer made it to the Super Bowl?' SOunds stupid, but its the same thing.

MLK was an incredible person, one of the greatest Americans of all time. He was not fighting and did not give his life so that two black coaches could coach in the Super Bowl. Lets give our attention to real issues like income disparity, the literacy line, education, and something that holds many down while helps so many others glide through life. ESPN please stick to Sports.

My SuperBowl Predicition: WHo cares, baseball is 2 months away.