Today marks 40 years since the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down. Much as it about remembering the man and his message, it should also be about asking the hard questions. The preacherman is perhaps more famous the world over (outside of USA) for his I Have a Dream speech than for anything else he may have achieved in the civil rights movement.
My hard question: Are former slaves (blacks) that he dreamt about, living in harmony with former slave-owners (the whites), in that 'dreamland', four decades and half decades after the 'dream speech'?
Why is it their station in life has not changed much since?
Why is racism still a very big issue in the US and the world over just like it was in the 1960s, when the Reverend dared dream?
I am still dreaming.....
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