On a day to day basis (or sometimes even month to month), it is frustrating to see change occur so slowly that it seems we are stagnating. In some cases, extreme reactionary politicians try (and temporarily succeed) in rolling us backward. That's why it's good to sometimes step back and take a look at the big picture to see how far we've come.
This past week in DC, we've done just that. It was 50 years ago yesterday that Martin Luther King Jr made his "I Have A Dream" speech, and this city and the country have been celebrating it. When he gave that speech, Jim Crow laws were still being enforced, mixed-race marriages were still illegal in some states, and the notion of a black president was a pipe dream. Fifty years is a big chunk of lifetime, but to see from whence we've come to where we are now - that is an amazing lifetime to live.
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