20 January 2009

The Culmination of the Dream?

In a piece in Newsweek, historian David Garrow notes that, in the rush to make President Obama's inauguration the fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream, the new administration and the media ignore that King moved well beyond voting rights in his quest for equality. Will we see anyone beat the drum for full social and economic justice? That's a much harder dream to realize, something King knew all too well.

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