Obama rewrites history --not a good thing.

• Author: Singleton, Marilyn M.
• Position: American Thought - President Barack Obama - Column

DESPITE the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, many of us ware too busy seeing patients to hear Pres. Barack Obama's second Inaugural Address. Besides, it was less painful to read the transcript.

"What binds this nation together is not the color of our sign or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names," he stated. Then let us end the government's obsession with African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans (but never European Americans). We all are Americans. I feel some moral authority and passion on this subject as a black woman whose family moved here from England in the 1600s. I am a full-blooded American.

I cannot bear to hear one mere person say, "I'm so glad we have an African-American president" How ironic: King urged that we judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

The head of the Congressional Black Caucus admitted that the CBC treats the President with a "deference" not accorded to a white president, and that the CBC is "hesitant" to criticize the current commander in chief. 'With 14% unemployment [versus 6.9% for whites], if we had a white president, we'd be marching around the White House."

This Administration uses race as a crutch when facing legitimate criticism--for example, Susan Rice's willful or incompetent misleading of Americans about the Benghazi deaths. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D.-S.C.) said calling Rice "unqualified" to be Secretary of State was a racist "code word"

Curiously, "unqualified" was not a "code word" when used against Clarence Thomas in his Supreme Court hearings. It was noted that he was particularly unqualified because he had served on the D.C. Circuit for only one year and four months. God forbid we should raise the same question about Justices Elena Kagan or Thurgood Marshall (whom Thomas replaced), who were never judges at all--or how about the fact that, while an attorney serving in the Obama Administration, Kagan helped craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but did not recuse herself from ruling on its constitutionality.

Also, what about the other Rice? Who can forget how former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice maliciously was attacked as a "house slave" while serving in the Bush Administration?

We next learned that the "Patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few, or the rule of the...