“When people ask… do you think his dream has been realized? And I think, the likelihood that King would come back, look at our jails, look at our schools, look at Congress and say, ‘My work here was done,’ is very unlikely. That check was still a bad check and it still needs to be honored… Look around at Trayvon Martin… look at the attempt to gut the Civil Rights Act…This moment and the victories of this moment are being shelled out and are being gutted and the history of that moment is being rewritten, not as a victory against codified segregation, but against a victory against racism, as if racism is something of the past, not a live, real thing, but a discrete historical moment that America has actually overcome… The speech is misunderstood as artifact rather than a living breathing document that still speaks to the realities of today.” Gary Younge
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:18:10 +0000
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