Op-Ed: Super Bowl LVII quarterbacks Mahomes, Hurts would make my uncle Martin Luther King smile

This article originally appeared in Fox News on February 12, 2023

With Super Bowl LVII slated for Sunday, the media has highlighted the fact that this will be the first Super Bowl in NFL history with two Black quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts, squaring off against each other. This game will also be played during Black History Month, so the occasion is all the more momentous. 

However, a fine line between seeing ethnicity as something to be celebrated and using race as a tool to divide us still exists. As I like to say, we are not colorblind. We can and do see ethnicity, and we celebrate the uniqueness of each other and the fact that we can still come together as one American people despite our differences. 

Unfortunately, the liberal media is using race to divide America. The liberal media uses race as a tool of division and as an instrument of the progressive Left’s woke politics. This isn’t new, and in fact, it’s the playbook they’ve been running for years. We see it in everything from critical race theory in our schools, to the 1619 Project in academia, to the Biden administration’s push for racial "equity" in things such as climate policies. In all of these areas, race has been used to divide the American people and make us focus on our differences, rather than on what we share in common. 

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