By WENDI C. THOMAS, Scripps Howard News Service

Dear Post Office: It's not you, it's me.

I'm not who I was when we first met.

Back then, it was a holiday ritual, to run to you to mail lots of Christmas cards and care packages to friends far away.

With two undergraduate degrees from Howard University and an MBA from Vanderbilt, Mark Yates might seem an unlikely candidate to be hawking Obama calendars in Washington, D.C., this week.
But look again.
"Entrepreneurs are the new black," says the 42-year-old from Memphis, Tenn.

DENVER -- What do black people think about this? Why do black people do that? Why doesn't the black community address this? Why haven't they fixed that?All of those questions came to mind as I attended the Black Caucus meetings at the Democratic National Convention here.

DENVER -- When Michelle Obama exited the Pepsi Center stage after delivering the keynote address on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely?" played.