August 28th, 1963
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
In 1950's America, the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality. People of color — blacks, Hispanics, Asians — were discriminated against in many ways, both overt and covert. The 1950's were a turbulent time in America, when racial barriers began to come down due to Supreme Court decisions, like Brown v. Board of Education; and due to an increase in the activism of blacks, fighting for equal rights.
Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister, was a driving force in the push for racial equality in the 1950's and the 1960's. In 1963, King and his staff focused on Birmingham, Alabama. They marched and protested non-violently, raising the ire of local officials who sicced water cannon and police dogs on the marchers, whose ranks included teenagers and children. The bad publicity and break-down of business forced the white leaders of Birmingham to concede to some anti-segregation demands.
Thrust into the national spotlight in Birmingham, where he was arrested and jailed, King organized a massive march on Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, he evoked the name of Lincoln in his "I Have a Dream" speech, which is credited with mobilizing supporters of desegregation and prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The next year, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
June 3rd, 2008
Posted at 11:15 PM ET, 06/ 3/2008
Obama Claims the Democratic Presidential Nomination
washingtonpost.com
Sen. Barack Obama claimed the Democratic nomination for president in a speech in Minnesota tonight -- an historic achievement that for the first time will place an African American at the top of a major political party's ticket.
After months of see-saw battling with his arch Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, ending tonight with Obama and Clinton splitting primaries in Montana and South Dakota, Obama will be immediately thrust into a pitched general election battle with Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican nominee.
Obama also made a direct appeal to Clinton supporters, especially women, who may be unhappy about the tenor and the results of the Democratic primary. "At the end of the day we aren't the reason you came out and waited in lines that stretched block after block to make your voice heard," said Obama. "You didn't do that because of me or Senator Clinton or anyone else."
Barack Hussein Obama 1961-
Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)
Lives in: Chicago, Illinois
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Height: 6' 1" (1.87m)
Family: Married wife Michelle in 1992, 2 daughters Malia and Sasha
Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)
Religion: United Church of Christ
Drives a: Ford Escape hybrid, Chrysler 300C
Education:
- Graduated: Columbia University (1983) - Major: Political Science
- Law Degree from Harvard (1991) - Major: J.D. - Magna Cum Laude
- Attended: Occidental College
Career: U.S. Senator from Illinois sworn in January 4, 2005
Government Committees:
- Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
- Foreign Relations Committee
- Veterans Affairs Committee
- 2005 and 2006: served on the Environment and Public Works Committee
Books:
- Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995)
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006)
- It Takes a Nation: How Strangers Became Family in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (2006)
Will McCain win the presidential
elections?
JARA
Hi JARA
about your article is interesting, but I guess that racialism is keeping on now begining by the black people. They're maybe have a grudge yet, because their race suffer a lot, now in own days is other thing, they use their rancor against own mexican people that living in America.
I'd never be in USA, but my parents went to holidays at L A . they visited many places, and one place is a "guetto" where live only black people.
if you are a mexican and you want to belong, is very dificult because they don't let you live there.
So who is the racialism?
I think that barack obama was trying to eradicate the racism that exists even in USA. But the people of color also are racist towards other persons, for example they do not want to the Mexicans and his clans, gettos or as call they, are very closed circles where they do not allow that anybody should pass, then I wonder if they also are racist because they become the victims. It He brings over of the candidate I do not see it with the freightage of a president, one sees very young for this type of post,
Hi Teacher;
I´ve been reading about the report on "I have a dream", I believe it´s a tragedy that hasn´t been fixed, it´s a long time since this issue took place and besides all that I can tell you somethings that I´m not quite agreed.
I´ve never been in the U.S.A., but my boyfriend has, and he told me that there are a lot of black pleople everywhere, the thing is mostly psicological, the way that family educates their children make things a little bit more difficult to change the perspective and generate family values, it all starts there.
When the people in college are killing among each other, you finally understand, that they were only driven by hatred, and their parents are not paying attention to these facts. Young kids have to live their lives by their own and no one is there to support and guide them, so they get all the education from the streets.
One more thing I do believe that color people are filled with anger, they keep living in ghettos and they do not want to succeed, We´ve seen a lot of black people overcoming these subject and managing there way up to heaven.
Hello once again Jara;
From the Obama report, i just want to say, that I don´t trust this guy, maybe I´m wrong but I guess this guy thinks he won a popularity contest, but we must not forget what that country needs.
Of course you may think that I´m a woman, and I´m pledging my allegiance to Clinton´s ideal, but that aint it, we must never forget that his husband once was the leader and president of that country, and he knows very well how to make things smooth, I think those times where the best for U.S.A. economically speaking.
But things come to an end and the next president will be Mccain
Hi Gorge,
Some people will think that in a country like United States does not exist racism, but today exist already since last century until twenty-first century.
I think that we would do not confuse racism with struggle’s Dr. King before he has been murdered. He fought for equal rights to everyone and people from other nationalities for their civil rights and seeks for happiness.
The racism barriers do not extinct today yet, we have to know that not only racism is about your skin color but also faith your practice, for thinking, for the wearing itself, for your age, weight, for your sex, etcetera.
In last few days I have seen the eurocopa soccer matches and I saw that in this great world wide sport event they approach to transmit this feeling about to regret racism, this language of equality to tear down the walls of social differences and the message is “not to racism”.
About Barack Obama and the surveys point to 51% of votes are to Obama and 43% are to McCain, I think that McCain could win the elections on next November.
Some analysts thinks that Obama have advantage over Republican candidate McCain because in the communication issues Obama talks to the young people in their same language. In contrast McCain does not share the same think about this young speech and for the McCain’s experience I think Obama is right.
Obama’s supporters have been grown up for the union of Hilary’s supporters then the McCain’s way is rough.
I think that Obama evokes Dr. King word’s to rallied support of afro American, Latin and someone other people to earn votes. Then be the first afro American candidate for the Presidential chair in the United States and evoke Dr. King and call to rally to continue the struggle that Dr. King start more that 40 years ago to improve the Obama’s popularity. Surely Senator McCain has his thinking about this “dirty speech war” to evoke Martin Luther King word’s.
I think if Obama wins on next November and to carry his commitment about civil rights and get conclude that Dr. King starts all will be fine and wonderful.
I hope so.
HI TEACHER:
This is the articule is the most important now because alot of people will think that in a country like United States doesn´t exist racism, but today exist racism already since 2000 all the world. I don´t like there are people because is racist. I want happy world and peace.
atte: hussein escamilla rios
hello George
I think this articule is very interesting because it show us that the intolerance and discrimination are there in many contries in diferents forms for example in our contrie the people rejects other people with diferent religion, political ideas etc.
Is increible that living in the century 21 still exist people with this type of ideas treating others like slaves or persons of lower class and I dont understand how is posible that many people have died trying to change this world in a place when the humanity can live freedom and in peace.
I think that the words said by Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech "I have a dream" can be possible if the people change their mind, because I believe that all in the world can live like a only human race in peace and freedom.
I´d like start respeting the ideas of others persons.
Hi teach!!
I have been reading the article "I have a dream" is amazing how the life of the negro has been so dificult for years, not only for all the racism in America, also in the whole the world.
The negros are fighting for freedom and they have faith that one day will have justice, and they will be free such as the white men are now at days, putting all their hopes in the nations, where they live.
It's unbelievable that in the 20's century still exist a lot of discrimination, even in the schools where the educations has to be equal it dosen´t matter if is black or white, they have a dream where thay can have the same opportunities, and share the same rights.
This is a big problem in all the countries and I´m glad to know that are some people who fight for have a better world, and not just thinking in theirselfs, although everybody can help thinking that we all are equal.
This is an unacceptable situation, we are not mean to be oppresors for anyone, it doesn´t matter our skin color, how do we live or where we were borned, we must always have the same rights, and we must always be judged by the same laws, under the same procedures.
I don´t really know if this situation will get into an end, but what I do know is that whatever I had in my hands to do in order to solve it, taking all kind of risks, it´s something that I wouldn´t even think.
Hello George.
I have a dream today:
In America to died the racism and than America valued their people , who forms their nation, they all are very important and the equality exists in race or other color skin.
I have a dream today:
Today it exists the justice and my brothers the black men and my brothers the white men give themselves the hand, share any place with harmony and are not judged.
I hope so that not only has been a dream and than this will be the reality some day.
i believe than it´ll exist and i´ll wait.
Hi! George
I think that tha discrimination is today a thingh it is caducation and in tha life of tha American people already forget and it doesn´t exist because now the law protege at black people and a mexican that and them are victims.
When the form of think change, we could be happyness if all respet the live and not believe that thats great.
how can do all good? is easy anly leaf that the people are how they want beig and never try of change them.
bye teacher.
Hi George
Well for start I think that Barack Hussein Obama is a good person who have good education and I can say that because the text say that.
He`s a good men who want`s to change a lot of things in the Unitated States like, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and that it`s a good point who he want`s to talk about on his speech.
I can say another things about he that he want`s to help the inmigrants in his and her humans rights that are the most important things of the people.
He say in his more recently speech`s that the inmigrants have the same rights of the people who are Americans and I think about that and I say that it`s a good plan because all that people work hard, win his and her own money, have his and her own business and they want to have a good life thats the reason that I considerate that they have the same rights and thats all.
Bye George see you on class¡¡¡
hi jorch!!!
well my opinion is that no only in unites estates, is a strong country that discrimitate, because all in our owns lives have discrimitated, and we have been discriminated, I listened in a report that the 90 percent of the people have done it.
In the case of unites states, they should understand that they have so much inmigrants and they are the principal element to develop of the country.
Hi teacher!!
I think that discrimination it's a problem that nowadays still continue all over the world, because the color of skin, because of religions, politcs ideas... there are many reasons why discrimination it's not over, but the problem it's that we don't have tolerance, we don't accept people that it's different to us. We don't support each others, even with our friends! we envy them!! Instead to be happy for them and cherry up them and support them.
This problem it's not exclusive of races, there discrimination in many ways. And the only solution it's respect ideas of others and give our opinions but not make a big problem or stop to talk to other people differents to our ideas or color of skin, if on the world everybody will be same, there won't be wealth, there won't be nothing interesting, we will die of boring!! Difference are incredible, difference must join us not separate us!! We have to see each others like brothers like we are the same person, that we can change we can learn we can make a better place!!
Hi jorch!!!
Well I´d like to say you about Obama and the elections.
So we now know that obama is the winner the presidential elections and it´s great because with the ideology of most of the population; this kind of oportunity is the principal mater of get the peace and free with their friendships will come back to be united.
But we like mexicans population don´t must wait that affairs like inmigration, mexican economy going to be resolve by Obama.
Because he in this moment going to resolve the financial crisis that their country have.
But I hope that the friendships with Mexico will be better, and we like population are better and proded of our country.
Only is started for each person and make the change, like the "butterfly effect"
In our "modern" society, we need more people like this memorable man, Martin Luther King, whose principles marked a whole era in the human history.
He was a real leader and an example for many of other "leaders" that we currently have, not only becasue of his principles and philosophy but for his actions.
In Martin Luther King, it is cleary demostrated the power of words, how words influence other persons, groups, societies and even a whole nation.
He is a personality who will remain for ever in the history of humanity.
I think the war between razes is a stupid thing but what can we do?
The color of the skin is not an important thing. We can find bad and
good people in everywhere. The most important thing is the quality as a
human been. In the case of Martin Luther King, he was just a dreamer because human been is naturally competitive and eventhough his dream,
people are going to continue fighting each other.
You can say I'm a pesimist person but I'm a very realistic one.
HI GEORGE!!!! I´M FROM IDIOMAS 2
this is an interesting articule but i think that there is a lot of descrimination in the USA not even for black people.
Nawadays Mexicans suffers the same way as this articule mentión because they don´t speak english, their culture our culture, and actually Mexicans in the USA do the hard work so i think that gringos have to be more concious and try to not to be so racist like they are well not all American citizens are like that.........................
This article is interesting for me I beleive that tha people in USA is bad because they don`t another kind of people in their country. However we are one raze here,wherever. We are the same for all. Martin Luther king is a leader we need a similar person in Mexico. We can change the society the life in general .we can have antther ideas we can be good people.
I think this is old history, but we still don´t believe what our eyes are seeing nowadays. Historic changes i hope for good of humanity. Who were thought a black president in USA appart that in 24 hours show, but was of course a black first that a woman right, at lease is a man. The main issue here is that we believe that we are all the same but we aren´t we are differents in so many ways and those differences are what make us what we are.
about your article is interesting, but I guess that racialism is keeping on now begining by the black people
I think that teh black people i as important as the rest
In my opinion racialism is one the main problems of our time, is not only for black people, hispanics, indians and asiatics suffer racialism too, even white people is sometimes a victim of this evil.
The world needs to be aware of its humanity more than other rules, the problem is not in the rules and decrees, the problem is in our hearts.
If we understand that all humans have the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we can make of this world a better place to live.
i think that is as important the black people as the with people in u.s.a they are going to see the change with
HI TEACHER!!!!!!!!!
The discrimination is something that makes me very sad and also it makes me feel annoyance because we all were born equal, maybe not in color skin but if in feelings and in aptitude to love we were, but this has been destroyed by the hatred that exists in the people who believes that for being blond they can humiliate the dignity of their similar.
I don´t know if this changes one day but all that I know is that the big changes begin with small actions.
that´s why I say " love and peace to all my brothers that in the bottom of their hearts are like ME "
ESCA Upper intermidiate 1
Racism is an evil that is affecting the world for a long time,since from ancient times humans consider to be inferior others by different skin color, being of a different race or religion.
This evil is mainly due to the intolerance that people have and the fear of different, if this evil will not solve, the world suffer a hatred like in the second world war.
There is no doubt that, Martin had an enormous power of comvocatoria, He was a speaker and a born leader, and the best thing than he had was that he believed in which he has called " Sueño" and that dream was not exclusive of Martin, was and is the dream of each woman of each man, justice, the equality, Martin Luterking thanks to believe in that dream… and to transmit a piece to us of this.
We know that The USA with all his economical problems has been loking for a hero, indeed all the world have been looking for someone who could solve some of our biggest problems, maybe the American people saw in Obama a lot of skills which everyone in the world were locked for.
I don’t know much about Obama but I think that he will be the change that USA needs, maybe all of us have much hope in Obama and he couldn’t do unreal things, It’s important that people have to be smart and very careful about our situation, it will be very hard that a person solves everything, is a kind of joke that Obama gonna be a hero, but I haven’t got the doubt that Obama will be a excellent president and will become in someone memorable and part of our history.
Hi teacher!
It´s hard to believe that racism continue nowadays, I knew that in USA, black people only can take sit on a bus in the back and if a white person took the bus and there was no place, the black person has to give her place.
I think black people have their expectation in Obama, but he will make some important changes, but he hasn´t enough time to change world minds and not only in the aspect of racism I referred also to economy, culture, etc.
Nowadays discrimination also affects mexicans that went to USA to try to find a better life.
Hi teacher!
It´s hard to believe that racism continue nowadays, I knew that in USA, black people only can take sit on a bus in the back and if a white person took the bus and there was no place, the black person has to give her place.
I think black people have their expectation in Obama, but he will make some important changes, but he hasn´t enough time to change world minds and not only in the aspect of racism I referred also to economy, culture, etc.
Nowadays discrimination also affects mexicans that went to USA to try to find a better life.
Hi teacher!
It´s hard to believe that racism continue nowadays, I knew that in USA, black people only can take sit on a bus in the back and if a white person took the bus and there was no place, the black person has to give her place.
I think black people have their expectation in Obama, but he will make some important changes, but he hasn´t enough time to change world minds and not only in the aspect of racism I referred also to economy, culture, etc.
Nowadays discrimination also affects mexicans that went to USA to try to find a better life.
It´s hard to believe that racism continue nowadays, I knew that in USA, black people only can take sit on a bus in the back and if a white person took the bus and there was no place, the black person has to give her place.
I think black people have their expectation in Obama, but he will make some important changes, but he hasn´t enough time to change world minds and not only in the aspect of racism I referred also to economy, culture, etc.
Nowadays discrimination also affects mexicans that went to USA to try to find a better life.
It´s hard to believe that racism continue nowadays, I knew that in USA, black people only can take sit on a bus in the back and if a white person took the bus and there was no place, the black person has to give her place.
I think black people have their expectation in Obama, but he will make some important changes, but he hasn´t enough time to change world minds and not only in the aspect of racism I referred also to economy, culture, etc.
Nowadays discrimination also affects mexicans that went to USA to try to find a better life.
" For dreaming it is not paid " my grandmother said.
I think that we all dream, the difference is the scope of these dreams, I can dream of having a car, a house, to be an owner of my own company, to marry etc. But I think that our dreams are better and more possibilities have to be fulfilled, if these involve others people.
We are owners of our dreams, but I think that when we think about the others people it makes us better people.
Hi teacher!!
It´s hard to believe that racism continue nowadays, I knew that in USA, black people only can take sit on a bus in the back and if a white person took the bus and there was no place, the black person has to give her place.
I think black people have their expectation in Obama, but he will make some important changes, but he hasn´t enough time to change world minds and not only in the aspect of racism I referred also to economy, culture, etc.
Nowadays discrimination also affects mexicans that went to USA to try to find a better life.
* Teacher, till now I could upload the comment. I hope you remind that I have some problems
It´s hard to believe that racism continue nowadays, I knew that in USA, black people only can take sit on a bus in the back and if a white person took the bus and there was no place, the black person has to give her place.
I think black people have their expectation in Obama, but he will make some important changes, but he hasn´t enough time to change world minds and not only in the aspect of racism I referred also to economy, culture, etc.
Nowadays discrimination also affects mexicans that went to USA to try to find a better life.
*Teacher, till now I could upload my comment, I hope you remember that I told you I have some problems.
In my opinion, I consider that obama, han gotten off to a great start, when he faced hillary clinton with different ideas on how to improve his country in different levels, such as economicals, social, cultural and policital
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