40 years after his assassination, America has yet to fully realize Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of true unity. From a legal stand point, certainly there have been tremendous strides. Everyone is now fairly equal in the eyes of the law. And yet, socially, we’ve made little progress. Sure, the racial divide isn’t as overt as it once was. But we’ve got big problems and we’re not getting very far.

Moblogic is one of the few newscasts that I watch on a regular basis precisely because of what happens when the interviewee grabs the mic from Lindsay and turns the question on her. Instead of throwing up a smoke screen or ending the segment, she answers honestly. Fucking brilliant. And this is coming from a CBS sponsored newscast.

I hope Obama becomes our next president. Forget the war, forget the economy, forget everything the media typically focuses on. I want Obama to win because I want him to help us come together. It’s the new damn millennium and it’s about freaking time we come together as Americans rather than fracturing apart as ethnicities. True, we should embrace our differences and celebrate our own identities. But at some point, we’ve got to come together and work together as a truly united nation.

Okay, enough politics for one day. That’s why I set up that other blog!

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