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Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream has mostly come true.
Not only are white children and black children holding hands, but they are hugging, kissing, marrying and creating babies together. In fact, our new U.S. president Barack Obama is the product of a black man and a white woman.
But black and white harmony was just part of Dr. King’s dream.
In his “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in August of 1963, the civil rights leaders mainly shared his hope that all races of people, not just blacks and whites, would share the same rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that our country’s forefathers outlined in the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
But Dr. King thought it would be impossible for minorities to live the American dream when, at the time, they had been kept from staying in hotels, being served inside restaurants, restricted from voting and faced with “Whites Only” signs.
Thanks to Dr. King’s efforts The Civil Rights and the Voters Rights Acts were passed, and he would be happy to see that all of the aforementioned barriers have been removed so that minorities now have the liberty to pursue whatever kind of lifestyle will make them happy.
Now that’s not to say that racism no longer exists, but again, that was just part of Dr. King’s dream. For the most part, the dream is alive and the opportunity is now there for a person of any race or gender to be successful in life.
However, King’s quest to end poverty, which he didn’t mention in his famous speech, is still an issue. Dr. King was in the midst of a campaign focusing on poverty in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968 when he was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, now The National Civil Rights Museum which has preserved the room where Dr. King was shot.
Poverty is back in the forefront with daily coverage of the victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that have left millions without shelter or food in a country in which 80% of the population were already living in poverty.
So while poverty still hasn’t been resolved, at least Dr. King’s dream has come true.
Click here to read Dr. King’s “I Had a Dream” speech.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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