Eyes on What Prize?
Black History Month has become the perfect time to market blackness to America.... Oh, but there were positive commemorations, too. Starbucks gladly pimped Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy (which is becoming a common practice) with the slogan "Share the Dream . . . over a toffee nut latte.".... And McDonald's has committed itself to celebrating Black History Month 365 days a year. How clever.... At this rate, I'll be sipping Frederick Douglass Frappuccinos over George Washington Carver peanut butter cookies with my children in a few years.