Friday, August 29, 2008

Dream Fulfilled

DENVER, Colorado -- On August 28, 1963, U.S. civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. brought Americans into a dreamland with the resounding "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington D.C.
Exactly 45 years later, Barack Obama stood on the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Thursday night as the first-ever African-American presidential nominee of a major U.S. party.

As Dr. King foresaw before he was assassinated in 1968, the country
has now accepted a person of color to be the presidential nominee.
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