50 Years: Dream

From the BBC:

"Obama: Economic equality is our great unfinished business"

US President Barack Obama has linked the ongoing struggle for economic equality in America with the goals of the 1963 March on Washington, in a speech marking its 50th anniversary. Mr Obama, the first black US president, said ensuring economic opportunity was "our great unfinished business".

Members of the King family and veterans of the march also spoke. Mr Obama gave his address at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC almost 50 years to the minute after Martin Luther King Jr culminated the march with his celebrated I Have a Dream speech. Mr Obama began by honouring King, as well as the many African-American and white marchers who descended on Washington to protest for civil rights 50 years ago.  But he said the 1963 march "teaches us that we are not trapped by the mistakes of history, that we are masters of our fate". Mr Obama was joined on the stage by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, who also spoke. Former President George W Bush, who is recovering from a heart procedure, sent a message of support.

 

^ Any person who is President at any major anniversary likes to take the credit for what others have done Obama is no different here. I think it was Morgan Freeman who said that Obama is not the first Black President, but the first half-White, half-Black President and that he was raised solely by his White mother and her White parents. Regardless, what race Obama is the main point today is Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech and how things have changed (and how they haven't) in the past 50 years. Racism is still everywhere in the country. Every race discriminates against other races. It has just moved below the surface. 50 years ago there were public signs, burning crosses, etc to show your dislike for anther group of people and today it is more hidden, but still there. ^

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23861859