Obama means King's dream realized?
There's a survey out today that says some high percentage of African-Americans say that through Obama gaining the presidency, Martin Luther King's dream has been realized. Also there's a lot of writing amongst the punditocracy equating the two.
I dunno. I'm not an MLK scholar or anything but I would think that MLK would not want to denigrate or lower the value of Barack's achievement but also speak to the poverty, lack of opportunity, lack of EQUAL access to all that the US has to offer that African-Americans currently experience. He might also speak to the violence, the social conditions, the police oppression, the environmental racism, and the racism in general that still permeates society.
I don't think MLK's dream is a reality yet.
There's a survey out today that says some high percentage of African-Americans say that through Obama gaining the presidency, Martin Luther King's dream has been realized. Also there's a lot of writing amongst the punditocracy equating the two.
I dunno. I'm not an MLK scholar or anything but I would think that MLK would not want to denigrate or lower the value of Barack's achievement but also speak to the poverty, lack of opportunity, lack of EQUAL access to all that the US has to offer that African-Americans currently experience. He might also speak to the violence, the social conditions, the police oppression, the environmental racism, and the racism in general that still permeates society.
I don't think MLK's dream is a reality yet.
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