President Obama's 50-year-old Inaugural Address

Dear President Obama, you gave a stirring inaugural address. The only problem is that a lot of it should have been delivered 50 years ago...on the Mall with Martin Luther King. I don't know why you decided to talk about America's domestic inequality and pulling blacks, hispanics, women and gays onto a flat playing field. Those of us somewhat older than you - whites, blacks, women, Asiatics and hispanics - have already fought and won that fight. If you don't get this truth, take a walk...visit any office, school, sports club, restaurant, store...note the mix of faces of every hue. We did it...and Dr. King was right...as were Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson. So, unless all that elevated rhetoric was directed solely at gays who, it is true, still need to be fully accepted in all states and by all Americans -- if that's what has preoccupied you and prevented you from doing the work that really needs to be done in 2013 -- you can sleep easy at night. America has already done the hard work of integration. Of course, it left some messy spots to be cleaned up, but we're working on that, too, and we'll get there. And if you don't believe us old folks, ask your daughters, or any white, black, hispanic or Asiatic young person. They are color blind. Thank goodness. And maybe you should try to be color blind, too.