Sixty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. outlined his dream for America. The motivation for his message – “we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check” – was as much economic as it was ethical. After all, the March on Washington was for both jobs and freedom.
Those both came slowly over the ensuing decades, until when under the previous Administration, our nation reversed course. From the top down, discrimination went unchecked, diversity was deprioritized, divisions were deepended, and decency was discarded along with basic rights and freedoms. Read more at www.theroot.com.
