"I Have A Dream...." by MLK: Barack Hussein Obama

The dream started years ago, when ancestors of our fathers began the journey to freedom.

In 1963, during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the sounds of  voices sang WE SHALL OVERCOME as Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared to deliver one of the greatest speeches ever to be delivered.

"I Have A Dream that deeply rooted in the American Dream.....".We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL"(Constitution).....that my children will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their CHARACTER..."

In January 2009, "I Have A Dream .." brings the past and the present face to face when Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as the first Black American President of the United States.

Barack Hussein Obama, our 44th president and present president, was born on August 4, 1961, never to know that one day he would rise to deliver a part of the dream that was spoken by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963.

President Obama shaped his future by attending Columbia University and Harvard Law school, where he earned his doctrate in law. He continued the shaping of his future by working as a civil rights attorney in Chicago, and then later taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

When Barack Obama was elected President in November of 2008, voting meant so much more to me and thousands of other Black Americans. All of those signs that hung and  read "FOR WHITES ONLY" ,   suddenly became just words. For Martin Luther King, Jr., my parents, and some of your parents, our past, our present, and our future meant that the DREAM still is ALIVE and refuses to EVER die.

Let us never forget our past. Furthermore, let us never forget where we must go.

MEET WITH YOU AGAIN, IF GOD BE WILLING, NEXT FEBRUARY. KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!---love you to the moon and back---Tammie Gipson Chin