What Else could you be? - I mean YOU'RE BLACK!

Massachusetts has a new governor, and guess what he's black! That's right, first Duncan Wilder, now Deval Patrick. I think that that is a great thing and says where we are going with race relations in America, oh, yeah, and another thing. You know what? I was driving through Newton Mass the other day. Newton is an affluent community near Boston, and I work as an art instructor in one of the many after school programs there. Anyway, this is going to make you laugh. A cop pulled me over, a white cop that is, and I am a black man. I had on a T-shirt that said Ward After School Soccer, and when I told the office that I was sorry for running the stop sign and attempted to explain that I was late for work at the school, that was within our sightline. He seemed to have a puzzled look on his face and then asked me a most curious question, and I quote "What? Are you the janitor of something?

I hope that Deval has a good press agent and that he gets his face out there. I wouldn't want him to suffer through the same kind of idiotic, and embarrassing questions from our less enlightened neighbors.