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Essayist Joseph Esptein has had it with the lionization of the SuperBowl's head-to-head African American coaches:...every time I hear mention of Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy as African-Americans, I wonder if this emphasis on ethnicity is a good thing. The more it goes on the more I feel that on game day Jesse Jackson will be called in to kick extra points, with Al Sharpton holding. Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy are superior men, smart, dignified, cool under fire, and high above the average of ex-jocks who have gone on to coach National Football League teams. Why make such a journalistic meal out of their being African-American? Nothing nearly similar would be taking place if the two coaches were Italian, Jewish, Irish, Ukrainian or Texan...

Why, then, emphasize the African-Americanness of these two excellent coaches? Doesn't doing so suggest a patronizing sense of amazement at their accomplishments -- as if to say, who'd have thunk not one but two black men could be at the top of their line of work? Doesn't doing so also suggest a note of self-congratulations for Americans -- as if to say, look how far we've come in giving these men a chance? Aren't we grand in our virtue?

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