The Irony of President Obama

I am finding it very ironic that Barack Obama was inaugurated on the day after Martin Luther King Jr. day and everyone was focused on him being the first black or half-black President. All of those people totally missed what Dr. King was about. He was trying to teach us about being color blind. That we shouldn't focus on the color of a person's skin. To judge a person by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. I see Barack Obama as a man. That is it. Classification of people as a political tool came from Karl Marx. So that each group can be given grievances and be told that each group is oppressed in some manor and that government can cure that problem (sound familiar?). No, I'm not trying to say that everyone who sees him as a black man is a Marxist. What I am saying is that those thoughts have permeated our society to the point that it just seems natural for us to group people into classification. White man, gay woman, African-American, etc... I see people as people. I don't care what your skin color is, I don't care what your sexual orientation is, I don't care if you think that animals have more rights than humans, I don't care if you believe in global warming, I don't care if you are a guy who has tree roots growing out of your extremities (See Story). You are all people to me and that is the way that Dr. King was trying to teach us to live. I consider us all created equal by God. So let's get off this kick of President Obama being half-black and focus on him as a man. Even mentioning it creates racial division. What I mean by that is, the more you focus on race, the more race becomes an issue, and it shouldn't be to begin with. When we all start thinking that way, we can stop classifying each other and we can all be considered "People".