Ray Charles Postage Stamp Unveiling Update

Over on the local rigt-wing political machine's hate website masqueradng as "Historic City News" there was a press release from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, announcing an invitation only event on Monday with the U.S. Postal Service.
The event: USPS unveiling a postage stamp for Ray Charles, f/k/a Ray Charles Robinson, the African-American singer whom Frank Sinatra called "the only true genius" in American music.
Ray Charles spent eight years in St. Augustine as an FSDB student.
FSDB excluded our City from the event. FSDB didn't invite anyone with the City.
How exclusionary! That's Apartheid, FSDB-style.
FSDB administration bitterly resents our City government, and planned the event to take place during the City-County workshop on Monday morning, November 17, 2013 See story below.
So yesterday, I telephoned the Postmaster General's office and USPS Inspector General's Congressional Liaison, and spoke with the USPS Corporate Comunications Director for the South and Southeast. I explained to USPS our City's history of racism the advances we've made in recovering from it. I asked for an event to be open to everyone in our City (unlike FSDB's snooty, invitation-only event, announced only on the aforementioned hate site). USPS agreed. USPS will be in touch with St. Augustine, with an eye toward having a public event, with music by Ray Charles, performed by blind students, hopefully in January to coincide with the opening of the City's six month long Jounrey exhibit on our 450 years of African-American experience.
Thank you, USPS.
Thank you, USPS for seeing through FSDB and helping us continue the heeling.
Thank you for helping uncover the heels at FSDB, and their works and pomps.
As my mother would say, "Time wounds all heels."
Now: wasn't that was a sharp elbow FSDB aimed at our City, our residents, our leaders and our City staff? No one in our City government knew about the USPS event. None were invited. Maybe we need a concurrent meeting of the FSDB Board of Directors with the St. Augustine City Commission to discuss matters of mutual concern (and FSDB's being a bad neighbor).
We should all forgive FSDB administrators, whose lack of sensitivity is still noticeable, and still embarassing. Our residents and City leaders prevailed, FSDB did not get its eminent domain land-grabbing bill without being totally watered down. The result: our historic Nelmar Terrace and Fullerwood neighborhoods will never again be assailed.
Thus, FSDB invited USPS for an event and excluded the entire African-American community, all of our residents, and our City leaders.
How cool is that?
With a few phone calls, anything is possible in life. On January 20, 1961, President John F. Kennedy noticed there were no African-Americans in the Coast Guard contingnent at his Inaugural Parade.
None.
Zilch.
Nada.
JFK told Harris Wofford (later a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania) to do something. Harris Wofford picked up the telephone and the Coast Guard was desegregated. Over and done. He told his colleagues in the new President's office, "You can do anything with these telephones."
Quo vobis videtor? (That's Latin for "what dew yew reckon?")