[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by Sistermadly
http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-liv...7684799.column

From the article:
"Charles' African-American face, his musical roots in black struggle, his very blindness all seemed to serve as reminders of something missing in the many hours of pious commentary about the 40th president's vision of America.

That face - the gleeful, grinning, shaded Charles - seemed as if it had cut into the tributes like a jazzy, boat-rocking riff inside a staid old hymn.

And what it seemed to say was exactly what nobody else wanted to say - that black people and their concerns did not exist for Ronald Reagan.

Amen, Mr. Charles."

Great column. I wonder if Mr. Vitello will get hate mail from the apologists. I hope not.