MLK Day: A Time To Reflect On The Road Still Traveled
LatestTwo score and six years ago, Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gave his “I Have A Dream” speech. Today, two-thirds of African-Americans think that dream has been fulfilled.
But has it?
“Has that dream been fulfilled? With the election of Barack Obama, two thirds of African-Americans believe it has,” CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said.
“Most blacks and whites went to bed on election night saying, ‘I never thought I’d live to see the day.’ That’s what the nation is celebrating on this King holiday: We have lived to see the day,” Schneider said.
But Martin Luther King’s dream wasn’t limited to a black President. He said:
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
Has discrimination ended? Does a larger proportion of the African-American population live in poverty still?