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01/20/2009: "Most blacks say MLK's vision fulfilled, poll finds"
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.
"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.
In the 1963 speech, delivered to a civil rights rally on the Mall in Washington, King said: "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."
[ Obama's victory really underlines how split the US is racially, since most white voters tended to prefer McCain, while non white voters supported Obama overwhelmingly. King's message is fulfilled in the wishful thinking of blacks who obviously read between the lines and see it as black supremacism in disguise. ]
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/19/king.poll/index.html
