Still Have a Dream
Time to Wake Up and Make It Come True
by Jennifer Browdy
On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, his I Have a Dream speech has never seemed more imperative, or more poignant.
In 2008, Americans had the dream that electing our first Black president would lead to a permanent undoing of racism, opening the door to a new age of American egalitarianism. But here we sit on the other side of eight years of a stellar Black first family in the White House, feeling like Hamlet looking from Hyperion to a satyr.
As we gaze grimly at the nightmare of the Tr$mp inauguration, it seems like a bad dream — except that every day we wake up and it goes on, but worse. (more…)
