Could He Have Dreamed?
I went to the Lincoln Memorial last night with to pay my respects to the old man and to sign a card to Obama. There is an inscription on the spot where Martin Luther King stood as he gave the I Have A Dream speech in 1963.
My friend Laura asked: "Do you think Dr. King could have imagined that there was a boy alive that day who would, 45 years later be president?"
Did Medgar Evers? Malcolm X? Did any of the men and women, black and white, from Alabama and New York and Washington, DC ever think it would happen this soon after that march? So soon after Selma? How far we've come in Obama's lifetime. How far will we go in his next 47 years?
My friend Laura asked: "Do you think Dr. King could have imagined that there was a boy alive that day who would, 45 years later be president?"
Did Medgar Evers? Malcolm X? Did any of the men and women, black and white, from Alabama and New York and Washington, DC ever think it would happen this soon after that march? So soon after Selma? How far we've come in Obama's lifetime. How far will we go in his next 47 years?
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