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In honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.

I decided to spend the time I usually spend blogging listening to some of the speeches of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Stanford has a nice collection of audio files. See

Popular Martin Luther King Requests. Whatever King's failings as a human being or scholar might have been, he was a true orator. Listening to the speeches still brings tears to my eyes, and is a wholly difference experience from just reading them. If you haven't heard his speeches, I encourage you to listen to them.

One of my nonsensical vanities is that I was at the "I have a dream" speech in Washington, on my father's shoulders. And I went back for the 20th anniversary March on Washington. I have lived and traveled in Africa, Europe, Central America and the Middle East, and no country I've been to is as screwed up about race as the United States. And yet somehow, lo these many years later, I still believe, that we shall overcome one day.

See Burningbird or Robert's entries for today for some more thoughtful and less sentimental writing.