He wanted change but I think the wheel of change has come to a screeching stop.  Well it didn't stop but it sure is slowwwwwwww. I mean in 45 years you would think something like the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., the Jena 6 incident and countless others that are left out of the media would have stopped. You would think that more than  a little tolerance would have been injected into this world we live in, tolerance for one another. Reminds me of one particular part of the "Dream" speech

"It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual."

What happened people?  His speech and all movements before and after him should have helped place us, we, you, me as a people in a better place.  45 years later and now a new persona has emerged with the gift of Gabriel to woo us with his words. Who needs words when there's no true movement for change? What good are words?

"In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"