More CNN polls. (We get it, you like the guy).

“WASHINGTON (CNN) — More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for race relations has been fulfilled, a CNN poll found — a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008.
Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

The CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey was released Monday, a federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader and a day before Barack Obama is to be sworn in as the first black U.S. president.

The poll found 69 percent of blacks said King’s vision has been fulfilled in the more than 45 years since his 1963 “I have a dream” speech — roughly double the 34 percent who agreed with that assessment in a similar poll taken last March.

But whites remain less optimistic, the survey found.”

That’s simply because King’s dream wasn’t just so a black could get elected President of the United States (in fact he never imagined so far), but that one day it wouldn’t make a difference what color someone’s skin was.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

It’s a forgone conclusion that the main reason that Barack Obama was elected president had little to do with the content of his character, but with the color of his skin. Blacks voted for him because he was black – period, and those who didn’t report they are looked on as traitors to the race. This is understandable in light of the past, but it’s a tragedy for the present as just to vote for someone on external appearance is a slander to the right to vote that many Americans fought and died for. It’s not a day of rejoicing, it should be a day of shame.

King’s dream was that one day we would get past skin color and social class. That it wouldn’t make a difference what race, creed, nation, all men – and women – would be on equal ground. So that in an election such as the one past it wouldn’t matter if Barack Obama were black, or Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin were women, all would be considered on equal ground.

Instead we have plenty of divisions in our society, made that way in large part by the modern liberal movement which has now seized Washington. Liberals have divided this country along race and social class, the “two Americas”, the “haves and the have-nots”. They captioned ridiculous nomenclatures for Americans simply to reinforce their division. For instance the term “African American” would have angered Dr. King, for it too is a slander on the American dream and the fabric that makes us what we are. There are no African Americans, there are only Americans. There are no Asian Americans, only Americans. We are Americans. Barack Obama is an American and now the President of America, voted in by in large because of a false assumption that this fulfills Dr. King’s dream.

It instead continues the nightmare. Those who know this truth are therefore “less optimistic”.

Someone today I believe Dr. King would be saddened by this event.