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Dr. King's Dream - poll tested by CNN

by: Pam Spaulding

Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 09:00:00 AM EST


A new CNN poll found that two-thirds of blacks believe Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for race relations has been fulfilled.
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.

"Whites don't feel the same way -- a majority of them say that the country has not yet fulfilled King's vision," CNN polling director Keating Holland said. However, the number of whites saying the dream has been fulfilled has also gone up since March, from 35 percent to 46 percent.

"Has that dream been fulfilled? With the election of Barack Obama, two thirds of African-Americans believe it has," CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said.

"Most blacks and whites went to bed on election night saying, 'I never thought I'd live to see the day.' That's what the nation is celebrating on this King holiday: We have lived to see the day," Schneider said.

Well, I didn't expect to see that day either, but it will happen tomorrow. That said, I'm clearly not in the camp of those polled who believe King's dream has been fulfilled. Just based on my small universe of blogging and personal experience, too many people cannot even discuss race without getting tied in knots, in terrible arguments or falling silent, or afraid to speak their minds.

People in this country cannot even come to an agreement on whether our new president is black or biracial -- his actual racial composition or his race "assigned" by our culture.

Look at the attempted and actual voter suppression that continues to go on today -- misleadling robocalls, voter registration intimidation, not enough or broken voting machines in majority-black precincts. The Voting Rights Act will be reviewed by the Supreme Court later this year. The CNN poll found two-thirds of blacks questioned said the Act is still necessary, only half of whites do. That's a serious disconnect given the recent organized attempts at voter suppression. The good news and story in 2008 is that the sheer number of young and minority voters who came out and did cast their ballots represented a tidal wave of new registrants activated by the prospect of voting for Barack Obama.

Blacks are Tased and shot by police far greater numbers than whites in encounters in pre-trial, extra-judicial summary electrocutions and executions. Take a look at the Blend Taser files to see the long list of incidents documenting police out of control. Look at the case of Oscar Grant. That is not King's dream fulfilled. Look at the Blend McCain/Palin mob files.

Or this:

  

There is much work to do.

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Much still to do
I am saddened both by this local story, and that it seems to have received so little national media attention.

I also never thought I'd see this day, and start crying every time I think of how amazing it is.  But there is so much work still to do.  


I'm amazed ...
 ... but then again, I shouldn't be surprised because there are so people in this country who are so willfully uniformed.

 The Obama Presidency is a symbolic step toward the dream, but its clearly not here yet.  I actually think it may never fully be reached, because racism just like other 'isms are just too evil and very difficult to kill.

... where Same Gender Love rules.


Dr. King's Dream
I'm with you, Pam.

I think there is a ways to go, for sure.

That's one of the most heartening things about Obama's victory.

It both indicates how far we have come since King's great speech and provides a boost in moving forward in the same direction toward an America united "in all its delicious diversity."



Not fulfilled yet
Obama is certainly a step in the right direction, but this white guy agrees with you that there is still a long way to go. I'm honestly surprised that anyone could argue that Obama's election truly fulfills King's dream.

They can vote for but can they live next to
a person different from them?

When people call into shows worried that Obama will only appoint African-Americans to his cabinet (and what would have been wrong with hiring people who are well-versed in their and the dominant culture, anyway?), start thinking logically and stop saying such stupid things, then I'll believe it.

They're still joking that gangsta rappers will be attending state dinners. I'm sure Kanye West was on Bush's list until Katrina (well, if Snoop Dogg arrives clear-eyed, without a turban and exhibits table manners and good conversation, better than the shady politicians that are automatically invited every year, what would be wrong with that?)

When a cop arrests a "suspect" who looks like his baby brother, or looks like the neighbor who clears snow from the cop's mother's driveway without asking, or looks like the kid who tutored the cop in HS algebra so he wouldn't flunk freshman year, and does not feel the need to shoot the suspect in the back while lying face down in concrete, then I'll believe we have progressed.

When the incidences of real estate ethnic steering goes down, when biased hiring and on-the-job insensitivity goes down, when being ignored or harassed while shopping in nice stores goes down, when exiling energetic black boys to special education classes goes down, when politicians call out violent racists instead of sucking up to them for their vote, then I'll believe it is better.

Maybe we actually have a "trickle-down" thing happening; until then we have only finished Act I of Dr. King's three-act dreamplay.


We are certainly much closer
I don't think Dr. King's dream has been fulfilled though the election of Barack Obama is a huge step forward. Official racist policies such as Jim Crow laws are gone but that was only a first step. People still have prejudices and those are harder to overcome but it is happening with time.

I think the biggest problem we have for Dr. King's dream is socioeconomic. Why do so fewer blacks go to college than whites? Why is 45% of the prison population black but only 12% of the country is black? Most all of the country recognizes that all men truly are created equal but all of us are not given the same opportunities.

I have heard a lot of black people interviewed who say that now their children see that they can be anything, even president, and I think that will help but I don't know how much. I am hopeful though.

For what it is worth, I am one of those skeptical whites.


I'm with you Pam
I think one giant step was taken in November when Barack Obama was elected in what I call a landslide, and another giant step will be taken tomorrow when he is sworn in.

But these steps I don't think are the realization of Dr. King's dream.  They are positive steps towards the realization, steps on the right road, but they are not the culmination of more than forty years of the fight for civil rights - which as evolved over the decades.

I do have to sit back and ask this question: "What would Dr. King think?"  On this day that we honor him, on this day before the first African-American President of the United States is sworn into office?  This question is multidimensional, and had Dr. King been alive this day I would really want to know what he thinks about the injustices that still occur today - racial injustices, social injustices including racial profiling, inequality based on sexual orientation and religious right.

For someone whom history has afixed his face to the fight for equal rights for all - I'd think we'd all would love to hear his input.


The irony is it is conservatives who don't even see race.
It has  been exclusively Democrats in this election who talked about race, which is counter to all the predictions, even from Obama himself.

In truth, they would have been comfortable with Condi Rice.  Had she been the nominee, does anyone think the media would be celebrating that minority twofer today?

No, what concerns conservatives about Obama has nothing to do with race, and a lot to do with his promise to grow government, redistribute wealth, enable abortion, promote unions, and take away free speech.


The fact that Rice was not drafted suggests strongly that Republican voters would NOT have been comfortable with her as POTUS
I do believe that some Republicans are truly indifferent to race, and would vote for anyone guaranteed to cut taxes, further eliminate regulation, and ensure that average workers couldn't afford to buy any significant amount of American goods and services beyond food and a room in an unheated walkup tenement.

[ Parent ]
Nope. Condi was asked to run, but declined.
 
ensure that average workers couldn't afford to buy any significant amount of American goods and services beyond food and a room in an unheated walkup tenement.

Well, you got what you wanted.  The minimum wage was increased.  What an amazing coincidence; unemployment has steadily risen since.  Now up past 7%.  Do you see any cause and effect between wages being raised arficially and companies being forced to lay people off to offset those increased labor costs?  I bet not.

[ Parent ]
LOL n/t


"Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" -- Iowa state motto

[ Parent ]
Window dressing, most likely
I don't know that I would be keen on running, given the Republican party's record of not supporting black candidates and the very pathetic showing both in Congress and in past conventions. There would have to be endorsements and BIG BIG money lined up ready to go before a sensible person would believe them enough to declare. And you know perfectly well that exploratory committees for all serious candidates have big money lined up before the announcement. Who'd want to hang out a shingle without support, and get compared to Alan "Motel" Keyes? Not to mention, Rice would have been gay-baited within moments of declaring. The Republicans can say they asked.

Both the Republican majority and conservative Democrats have contributed to the fiscal crisis that is the major driver of unemployment. You are dreaming if you think that raising minimum wage is the dominant cause of unemployment - it might be the dominant cause of hiring illegal foreign workers, though, since risk:benefit ratio has increased marginally.


[ Parent ]
"Window dressing". That is so predictable.
It's exactly what Democrats and the MSM would have done to Condi.  Give her the Sarah Palin treatment.  The dirty little secret is tolerant Democrats and media savage women and blacks who veer from the party line with a bigotry unimaginable to Republicans.  We all remember what happened to Clarence Thomas, don't we?  He wasn't hailed as a black rising to the highest court; he was called an Uncle Tom and a sexual harasser.  

As for the financial crisis, it was created and sustained almost solely by Democrats, from the demand that banks make loans to unqualified people to Congressional resistance along party lines for reform of Fannie Mae (which itself was a piggy bank for the Democrat Party).

The worst thing is the same Congressmen responsible for Fannie are the ones prescribing a "cure", and the guy who called no fewer than 12 times for Fannie regulation, George W. Bush, and his party, were blamed.


[ Parent ]
"promise" to "take away free speech"?
Troll!  In the dungeon!

[ Parent ]
You get the tar
I'll get the feathers.

I am the lizard queen!

[ Parent ]
Rate it so
Make it so.

Lil' Markie has been nothing but a race-baiting shit-flinger in Pam's house since the day he got here. Rate him as he is.

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi


[ Parent ]
I reiterate
the desperate need for a twit filter on blog posts.

Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing

[ Parent ]
GroupThink?
Just asking.

[ Parent ]
I suspect this poll represents a time-limited "willfully hopeful" blip
I'm guessing another poll in a few months, after people stop being so starry-eyed, will reveal different results.  For one thing, there may be some respondents who are choosing to say what they believe is the more acceptable response, rather than what they truly believe.  And others may have temporarily convinced themselves that it is true.  Of course, it's not clear to me that everyone would define "fulfilled King's dream" in the same way.  Do we have economic justice in this country?  Have we stopped being "the most violent nation on earth"?  If those aren't considered part of "King's dream" in the popular imagination, why is it that those concerns have been forgotten in favor of a more limited (and liberal rather than radical) agenda?

Welcome to Post-Racial America, Baby!
Last night, here in LA LA Land, I attended TWO "The L Word" season premiere events; both FREE. One event was attended by mostly European American and Asian American LGBTs, the other was attended by mostly African American and Latino American LGBTs...my particular posse was mixed. I enjoyed both places but took the time to do a race/class analysis...because of time and space constraints; I won't divulge it here.  Anyway, WE as a people will someday get to the Promised Land...starting with who we choose to associate. Expanding our social circles beyond whom we work with, whom we went to school with, whom we go to church with, etc; is key.  Personal Affirmative Action plans need to be instituted.  If you encounter a fascinating Latino American while in line at the grocery store; exchange contact info. If you meet a cool European American on the Metro platform whilst waiting for the train; exchange contact info.  If you meet a nice African American while perusing the stacks at your local library; exchange contact info.  If that East Indian or Native American reading a work by Michel Foucalut at the coffee house intrigues you; introduce yourself...you might make a new friend.    

How do we have a conversation?
How do we talk about race in this country? It's become such a loaded topic, and the opinions are all over the map.

Personally, I feel that racism is alive and well, it's just spreading underground. All the old racist jokes still get told, the only difference is the person telling them looks around to make sure the "wrong person" isn't within earshot. The hiring decisions still get made, the reasons just stay undocumented now and something innocuous like "not a suitable candidate" gets written down.

But how do we talk about racism? I'd love to have the conversation, but I know that I've got racist views and assumptions that would offend, so I don't bring it up. I've done my best on my own to weed it out, but just as you can't proofread your own writing effectively, you can't edit your own thoughts and feelings. Anyone I had a conversation with would have to go into it knowing that they'd be offended at some point and willing to point it out and forgive. I'm able to learn, and I'm willing to learn, but who is willing to teach? And they'd have to be willing to listen if I pointed out something I thought was racist on their part. Because that exists, too.

Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing


Indicate that you'd like to discuss, do not mind being called out if you offend,
and respect your friend's opinions. Ask your question, and then LISTEN carefully to your friend's half in the conversation. Remember, your friend is the authority on her own life experiences. If she hurts, she hurts - it's as inappropriate to say things like "it can't be that bad" as it is to say "why don't you just stop this nonsense and go with someone of the opposite sex". Respect, honesty, empathy, humility will get you a long way in such a conversation.

[ Parent ]
Admitting we have racisism and isms in us is a good first step.
So I speak up when those who look around first tell their jokes.  And I stop myself now when stereotypes pop into my own head, speaking out has helped me realize my own bigotry.
This is hard I know it, cause I speak up at work and I get the looks, but now, they at least stop mid racist joke or comment when they see me around too.  
Truth is there are still a number of hard core racists out there but there are far more that are soft racists, these won't tell a racist joke or comment but they don't speak out and laugh or just ignore the comments.
What if you just teach ONE, and I teach ONE and we all just teach ONE?
Maybe ask them next time.."Do you know the genetic difference between you the rest of the world?  Between all humans, its <1%.



"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol



"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" - Blaise Pascal


[ Parent ]
Wow
These results seem to show that the AA community is, at least momentarily, more optimistic about racial fairness in the country than white people.  Has that ever come up in a poll result before?

"Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" -- Iowa state motto

It takes Faith to make it to the end
hello pam,
i agree with your thoughts in this post.  my answer to the question is no the dream has not been fulfilled in it's wholeness--but i know we are now postioned in a better direction to keep walking to claim our Promise.  To keep going till every check is cashed!

the few instances that you spoke on are so true and are only the tip of all the 'isms' that have to be addressed and come to a conclusion about.  I know we have a long way to go as far as killing off a lot of the underflow of the 'isms' that exsist in our Country and our World.
and i hope that a few more voices and hearts will continue to stand for Truth and Freedom for All.  One person at a time-one day at a time.

When you only free your body, your mind is still a slave-But when you free your mind, the rest of you follows!

I continue to walk with feet of peace.

Always Seeking To Encourage!
WTm
http://wisdomteachesme.blogspo...

the praying activist, WTm-

by Faith I am part of His Family!

Gal 3:26


well, we've elected a biracial man who supports jim crow for lgbt's.
one step forward, one step back is all i can think of it.

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I think I am going to have to stop thinking about it
I am getting so sad and depressed.  I really am.  I'm so sad over this.

[ Parent ]
No
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

...
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

When will we be able to marry the person that we love?

When will we be able get a job based on what we can do, not who we are?

When will we be able to walk into a business and not be told "We do not want your kind in here.?


Anyone seen any coverage of MLK memorial service, or Rick Warren demonstration?


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Warren at MLK memorial, small demonstration
He praised Martin Luther King Jr. as both a model pastor and a heroic civil rights leader.

But Warren's appearance also drew protesters who were angered that event planners invited an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage.

Several dozen gay activists gathered outside Ebenezer before the service. Two protestors made their way inside and rose to shout at Warren when he began speaking; they were escorted out to applause from many in the crowd.

Earlier, the protesters outside hoisted signs declaring: "We still have a dream. Equality." They chanted: "Gay, straight, black or white, we demand our civil rights."

"Rick Warren is not a voice of unity or equality," said Jeff Schade, director of GLBTATL, which stands for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Atlanta.
   http://www.ajc.com/metro/conte...



"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
BEST part of this MLK Day
I haven't seen hateful Bernice all day

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Still a long way to go, but it is happening.
As I say sometimes, "change comes slowly if at all."

The seemingly momentous things are the diligent work of many people for years.

Many people will be working for years to come.


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