"I have a Dream"

.... I am saddened today. I am saddened by s the media's coverage of this DNC that cheapens the memory and the message of a great orator. Dr Martin Luther King.

Dr King said,

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Yet what I hear from the media is how momentous and eventful it is that a black man has been nominated. Clearly we have not achieved this wondrous dream where in the color of a mans eyes would be noticed before the color of his skin. Yet tonight on the anniversary of that historic speech I see the media proclaim the wonder that a Black man has been nominated. How far we have fallen from Kings message. How far have we strayed from his faith that one day this nation would understand what it means to say "All mean are created equal". How far from the truth must we stray before we can simply accept each other as fellow humans, discarding superficial differences.

Barak Obama is a fantastic orator. One day he may become a brilliant leader of nations but for now I weep for him. Barak Obama's personal achievement as the DNP's candidate has been cheapened. Cheapened by the press and the international media in the name of making a buck. Listening to the reporters on this historic anniversary I find that they ignore the magnitude that a major party has nominated the _man_ Barak Obama. Instead they tell me that I should remember this moment because he is a black man. Dr King, I believe, would hang his head and said 'did you not listen?'

We have not achieved Dr Kings Dream. I hope one day we do. I hope one day we view a different passage of this speech as the true historic statement of the day

his closing words,

"And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Unfortunately thanks to the modern media... today is not that day.