Has "The Dream" been fulfilled? No!

...and I wish media outlets and the African American community would stop saying that.

[Now before every little teeny bopper that watches CNN and has an Obama t-shirt starts to bite my head off, please READ [not skim!] what I have to say and then comment.]


Ok so as I was saying, "The Dream" of Dr. Martin Luther King has not been fulfilled with the election of President Obama. Now, I'm a major supporter of Barack Obama and I do think that his election is definitely a step in the right direction. But what people need to realize is that "The Dream" and the movement does not end here. It cannot end here. The Black community is still being treated unfairly and unjustly within the United States of America and while this is a start, we have to BUILD on this movement.

We cannot put all of our faith, hopes and dreams into one leader. We ourselves must be leaders as well. If our history has shown us anything, its that the Black community has to take control of their own destiny instead of waiting for a leader to mobilize behind. Because when that leader is gone, what happens to the movement? When Dr. King was killed, the movement stalled. When Malcolm X was killed, the movement stalled. When the Black Panther Movement was crushed by the gov't, the movement stalled. The Black community has a tendency to gather behind leaders but when those leaders are gone, we scatter in different directions once again unable to come together.

To quote President Obama, ""Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."