On the day like today 42 years ago civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, delivered what would later become a milestone speech to be shared to generations and generations in America and across the globe. I Have a Dream speech was delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. In remembering this speech I have taken special time to read it over and over again today. I am not sure whether our Black Americans brothers and sisters takes the same initiative that I have taken. But whether they do or not the deep question to ponder should be how much of Martin Luther King Jr's dream has been achieved today?Are the black people still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination? After 42 years since he delivered this speech aren't black people still living on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity?Aren't they still languishing in the corners of American society and finds themselves an exile in their own land?
What about great trials and tribulations that were there then? Are they gone now? Aren't the narrow cells still full of black race?. Is police brutality history now?Bitter and hard questions remains. As we remember this day when a great man with great vision delivered this speech I challenge everyone to look in the mirror and see whether you see the fullfilled dream or not.If not then wake up and live!