Obama Does and Doesn't Fulfill King's Dream

Huffington Post by Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Jan. 18, 2009 (Editorial)

The unchallenged article of faith is that the election of President Barack Obama fulfills Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that the content of character should trump skin color. King uttered the words in his March on Washington speech in 1963. We'll hear that said time and again in the march up to the King national holiday January 19 and Obama's inauguration the next day. Full Story »

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by Kenneth Sibbett - Jan. 19, 2009

While I haven't heard Obama compare himself to Mr. King, He is right about the poverty and inclusion of African American"s. But I'm white, and maybe color-blind, but for the life of me, When I look at our next President, I do not see color. What I do see is a man of optimism, whom, right or wrong, is a person who think's the White House is for all American"s.

While Obama may have gotten 90% of the Black vote, he dose not get into the White House without white, Latino, asian , or a hundred other combination of people around this great Nation.