General Colin Powell wasn't set aside for his criticism of American race-relations...
General Colin Powell was set aside because he publicly favored diplomacy with Iraq rather than military intervention...
General Colin Powell was set aside because he could not bring himself to continue to lie as Secretary of State...
It was a lousy finish forced upon him after a stellar career of national service...
General Powell had my deepest respect, despite the latter-day lie-to-the-UN mistake...
General Powell had the deepest respect of vast numbers of our countrymen...
We saw The Man and his Merit and not The Color...
Exactly the way your Doctor King (and most sane, right-thinking folk of all colors) wanted it...