From "I have a dream" to "I will seek authorization for the use of force," the final week of August 2013 was an intense one.
"I have a dream"
We had the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington reminding
us of how far our nation has and hasn't come in achieving race equality,
putting us in a self-reflective mood and highlighting the conflict between
those who climbed up and, as a part of the establishment, are now standing on
the shoulders of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other heroic civil rights advocates
versus those who see such leaders as sellouts rather than as examples of the
movement's successes.
Fifty years is not much time, in the grand scope of things;
yet, because of the increasingly accelerated speed of change in modern society,
it constitutes a huge generational gap in which the synergy of King's life and
work has become subtly diluted.
