Obama Speech

45 years ago MLK gave a speech that touched all nations of every race. In school I remember every year hearing about the "I have a dream speech" and the images embedded into my memory, and my father telling me where he was in Haiti when he first heard that speech. I can honestly say I never knew the whole speech, but I knew enough about it that gave me chills when I read or heard those monumental words that still give me chills.

Tonight 45 years later, at the aged of 26, I witnessed a speech that moved me like it did the young, old, black, white, Hispanic, and Asian on that faithful day in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

I saw a man whose story was so familiar to the families around my own community and was accepted by a nation, not for the color of his skin but for "skin but by the content of their character." I saw a dream tonight come to life, I saw what my social studies homework from the 6th grade present itself and say "here is my dream", I felt the chills and goosebumps rise as I too became that young American that became part of history on August 28th with a stadium filled of believers and dreamers.

What seemed like a dream deferred really wasn't, it was growing and 18 months ago none of knew what a man from Hawaii had in store for us. We didn't know that how far it would get, we didn't know if he could pull it off, we didn't think a nation would back an "unknown". But he prevailed, we prevailed and together we did and together we can.

And lastly I don't think MLK had a dream I think he prophesied what his work and vision would bring. "we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands"