Meditating on the words from Langston Hughes, I think about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream.

Was King's dream deferred?    Did it dry up like a raisin in the sun?    Did it fester like a sore and run or sagged from a heavy load and then exploded?

Looking at the conditions and quality of life for African-Americans today, King’s dream is deferred. The voices of some African-American leaders stutter, mumble, or simply muted and paralyzed.   Their voices are meshed with other voices that have silent our issues.   African-Americans are tired of the rhetoric; it is time for new voices and leadership, so that African-American could have a place in society again.

Let us march for Dr. King with each step moving forward quickly, rushing ahead, and advancing onward.  It is our time for our dream to become reality. 

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

 Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World