I really think race would be in a different spot right now if this great man had lived.
His message was so different than what the current method to get attention.
Dialogue has been lost.
Hate, bitterness, and sadly, ignorance, seems to be all there is.
Race problems facing many minorities has made great advances, but to say it is not still an issue is to live in denial, ignorance.
I have engaged many minorities to seek out their views, hoping to get an understanding myself.
My perspective will always be mine, and I need to realize that it is always only mine.
The sad thing about the current climate is it makes that understanding even harder to attain, as the hate premeditates any dialogue, on both ends of the spectrum, and folks like me, have to dig deeper, to find understanding, as the media, and opportunist, capitalize on the situation, adding fury to the frenzy...
BTW, I INCLUDE TRUMP in that blame!
Hate is taught, just as Obama said, on both sides, sadly.
It will be up to "folks" to force factions to dialogue.
We need leaders, and I think we will see them, even tho it looks bleak right now, I believe with all my heart, as technology makes communicating, way more accountable, to those who's motivation is suspect, revealing them as the charlatans they are, we will see access by the "commoner", who talks from his heart, and not from "taught" legalistic bullchit attorneys live by, in general, at the leadership level of our society.
Money will not be needed to access the "airwaves" denying grunts and serfs, real chance to have political input too.
Its coming, believe me, America will be GREAT, once and for all