“The problem with Misty’s fame, however, is precisely it’s relationship to her ethnicity; she should be known as an incredible dancer who is a principal at American Ballet Theatre, not as an incredible dancer who is the first African American to be named a principal at American Ballet Theatre. To see her as an African American first is, in fact, benevolent prejudice — to congratulate someone for doing something that most people of her race have not done. But to do so only reminds us that it is not the norm.”