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So ever since Spitzer’s pants were announced to have been down on Monday, I’ve seen headlines “NY’s First Black Governor?!” So, okay, I guess the lieutenant governor of New York is black, then. Whatever. Then I find, today:

Times Online (a British newspaper) – His successor makes history for being blind as well as black

He was the last person you would expect to find in a car-park outside a fire station being used as a polling place in South Carolina. David Paterson will become an historic figure on Monday as the first black governor of New York State and the first legally blind governor in US history.

He’s blind? And no one in this country thinks that’s more interesting than being black?