YES! We're moving backwards on racial issues & voting rights.
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NO! But we are still fighting to make Dr. King’s dream a reality.
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We're moving backwards in our efforts to resolve racial integration and bigotry. I hear it everyday in the press re police brutality and in our congress people particularly the extreme T-partiers and faith-based legislators. Our Christian right is so unchristian. I am a Caucasian living in a community that is 80% Hispanic and I find I am discriminated against. Bigotry works both ways.
Not only are we moving away from MLK's dream but MLK would be disgusted with Barac Obama. Read Chris Hedges.
When good people do nothing ( like not Voting ). Bad things will happen...Benjamin Frankilin. The absolute dumbing down of America, it taking its toll, and seemingly, nobody cares. Sad, very Sad. We are now the laughing stock of the world, by letting hate, and stupidity, rule this country. We are becoming like those countries we criticize.
I don't think there is any question that we've moved further away from King's dream of equality and a level economic playing field. In fact, we now seem to have cases of reverse discrimination. Racial tensions should be a thing of the past; there are events of far greater importance happening than the color of someone's skin. As Txpeon points out, weve seen the dumbing down of America; the imposition of an oligrarcy in lien of our (now former) democratic republic; Moslem oriented terrorism, a lunitic in North Korea; climate change; declining sources of fresh water, decline of productive jobs, the growing inequality of wealth, "Citizens United" misruling, and so on. Yet, we get wrapped in in video games, so-called "reality shows" etc. As the ancient Romans used to say, "bread and circuses". Of course, as I've repeatedly written for years now, the "powers that be" want---need---us to be divided every way possible. If we're at each other's throat, so much the better; anything that keeps us from focusing on the real source of our problems---them.