Is Martin Luther King's dream still out of reach?

washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-dream-stil... Asked by rhine44 4 months ago Similar questions: Martin Luther King's dream reach Politics & Law > Issues.

Similar questions: Martin Luther King's dream reach.

I thought it was already realized --- silly me.

I see light at the end of the tunnel; but tile will tell whether it is the dream; or the headlight of an oncoming train.

Martin Luther King's dream will always be alive in the hearts of those who have the largess of soul to harbor the truth in his words. Those who perceive no value in them, never did. Those who do, always will.It is just a matter if whether or not truth will survive the uproar of polarization purging this country.

When resistance to the reality of unity and harmony between human beings is finally overcome by the power of love and vision, that dream will be realized, until then its silent flame is still burning and protected in the hearts of the awakened.

Skep said, "The boy was no scholar". That is an example of how it is this country is still so steeped in ignorance and oppression.

If Luther had dreams they were likely Ego serving fantasies of grandeur. The boy was no scholar.

Every "dream" is out of reach - that's what makes it a dream and not a reality. Equal opportunity for all is not just a dream, it's a value. And with all values, if our actions are not in alignment, we're not in pursuit.

HOWEVER, before MLK, nobody had really articulated the value as clearly and with such passion, awakening the dream in millions. Will we ever be "there"? No.

Because values are like directions. There is NO PLACE called "East. " We are never *there* even if we are facing that direction and heading in that direction.So it is with the value of human dignity and opportunity for all.

There is no Promised Land - but we can still all head in that direction.

As a Christian minister, he had a great dream. As non-Christian citizens, we have consistently found that dream just out of reach. I believe we'll continue to miss that mark exactly because we don't really want to pay the price of having it: giving up what we have in favor of having relationships with others we don't necessarily like.As one (of many) examples, I can't stand rap music and I'm instantly suspicious of people who think violent, misogynistic words are "music.

" I don't want anything to do with such a person, yet my choosing to have a relationship with such a person could be what pulls that person away from that brink. Meanwhile, Ice-T goes from "Cop Killer" to playing one on TV, so change is possible.Com/name/nm0001384.

Barack Obama is half-black, and is President of the USA. Clarence Thomas is black and sits on the Supreme Court, the second member of his race to achieve that rank - Thurgood Marshall was the first . Condoleezza Rice has been both National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.

Same for Colin Powell, who was a member of The Joint Chiefs of Staff. Count the number of black members of both houses of Congress. Count the number of black governors (and past governors).

Then go to the private sector: the first black millionaire in Georgia (that I'm aware of) was Alonzo Herndon, born into slavery and went on to found Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Amazing story! Another amazing story is Madame C.J. Walker, one of the first black female millionaires.

Married at 14, widowed at 20, she made a fortune manufacturing products for the care of black hair. And I believe the first black billionaire was Reginald Lewis, who became amazingly wealthy and put together the Beatrice Foods conglomeration ( TLC Beatrice International, a snack food, beverage, and grocery store supplier) in 1983. Lewis preceded today's black billionaires, Oprah Winfrey and Robert Johnson (BET) by several decades.

Millionaires? CEO's? Look at Clarence Otis, CEO of Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, others).

Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express. Kenneth Frazier, CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck. Rodney O'Neal, CEO of automotive supplier Delphi Corporation.

Ronald Williams, CEO of health insurance giant Aetna; Richard Parsons, CEO of Citigroup (Citibank) and former CEO of AOL Time Warner. Then there's Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, the first black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. No need to mention the sports figures and entertainers who are multi-millionaires, from Tiger Woods to Beyonce' Knowles to Tyler Perry and many others.

I would say that Martin Luther King's dream is alive and well, as evidenced by the above list of just a few of the black Americans who have risen to the top of their particular fields. There are many more who are on their way to the top.........just watch. But newspapers seem to dwell on those who are aggrieved because they haven't made it - in business, education, military, sports, entertainment.

That makes news. Politicians who want to dwell on those grievances get soundbites on the evening news......and on some cable networks, get the soundbites played around the clock. Success doesn't make headline news - except in the Wall Street Journal, and on CNBC.

Classroom teachers don't dwell on the methods used by those who have risen - or or rising - to the top. Why not? Those methods work.....and have nothing to do with skin color.

And wasn't that the point of the dream? To judge someone not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character? Com/fortune-500-ceos.

Monday -- Happy Birthday Martin Luther King - (observance).

What funeral home in Atlanta received the body of Dr. martin luther king.

Why did martin luther king jr win the congressional gold medal.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.