Has the dream been dropped?

Used to be you got a job based on if your dad worked there.(50's,60's) Then it was on what you know.(70's,80's) Then it was on who you know (90's). now it is on how much you will work for...lowest being the one that gets hired. They don't care about anything else these days... for at least a decade now. Toss in there personal appearance and the cutest gets the job!

As it was said at the end of Animal Farm "some animals are more equal"

Simply put, when you make race an issue, you make race an issue. There will be no equality as long as we are looking at race. Whether to give or take away a job or benefit. I dont see the Doctor's "dream" happening anytime soon. The last Presidential election, I think, proved how far we have come - not very far.

Hwatever happed to being chosen to fill a particular job because you are actually better for the job than the other applicants. I mean you used to get hosed for what you know about the job and if you happend not to be anything other than Caucasian it did not matter. the thing is we used to just look through all the applicants to find the ones who could besfill the job and if they were black,purple, ,yellow, or white if he or she was the best qualified they got the job.Now we bend over so far backwards trying to be politically correct we pick which ever quota of race is the least represented even if this person is not suitable for the job and thus does a half a@@ed job of it.Now schools are segregated again after all the battles to desegregate.I am not begrudging any race the right t o work anyplace whites do, I am just saying we should pick the person that is best suite for the job, black ,,white, yellow, orange,.or purple.this is the only fair way to do things.

One of my best friends growing up was named Brandon. Where I grew up, there was a little bit of everything. I mean, the fact that we were different "races" wasn't something in our heads until school taught us that all white people were slave owners and all black people were slaves. Well, around the time we got up through the ranks and in high school, he had taken on a completely different attitude than before. Jokes we all used to tell (Like: "Damn, Brandon, you can smell @$$ in China with that nose of yours!) went from funny to "oh, it's because I'm black!" No. It's because your nose is gigantic. But w/e, dude. Eventually, I started mocking him: "Treat me different because I'm black, unless you're treating me different because I'm black." A lose-lose. Well, I found it hilarious. And I also find it true for many, many people - regardless of what "race" they are. We're basically told to treat anything "minority" with more deference than we treat people in the "majority." The content of one's character rarely comes into play. And whether it's the more liberal-minded, PC people pushing that nonsense or the many minorities who do eat it right up, it's more damaging than healing to STILL judge on skin tone. There's a fear in America, I think, to really urge people who are black or brown or anything non-white to meet everyone else half way on it...because they're black or brown or non-white. So we do a hell of a lot of placating and patronizing in this country, and thousands upon thousands of politicians, pundits and advocates make hefty living promoting racial separation with a neo "separate but equal" system. I don't fault the intent of some people; I have a problem with the implementation. You don't separate and give preference to someone based on skin tone in order to supposedly right wrongs and promote diversity. It's RACIST! What it breeds are millions of people thinking they're either owed, owned or hopeless based on their skin tone. America is backwards on a lot of things, and how we handle race is definitely one of them. And EVERYONE is at fault. People like Jesse Jackson decided to act counter to Dr. King's message, and he is certainly an influential voice. And he's certainly not the only one. At this rate, we'll never be looking past skin color. Hell, I think Obama is the best example we've had in a long time. Disapprove + white = racist. And not to mention the people who give him a free ride because it's simply not PC to go after a "black" guy, lest you're a racist. The dream isn't wanted by mainstream society. Well, it is. It's just wanted both ways.

I think the dream is just that when you think about it. Just a dream. Now it is a nice dream granted but in a perfect world that would happen. I think that however we do in fact live in a world that is far from perfect. One would think that almost fifty years later, that speech would be something that would come true but if anything, while we have made some progressions, we are further away from an equal society now then ever before. I think that in the year 2011 how we determine things based off of the skin color of people is sad. Even if it has swung to the other end of the spectrum, where groups that were discriminated about during another time, getting favorable treatment to fulfill a certain number of people. Plus the dream has been perverted in many ways with people crying discrimination when the fact that there is none there. So the dream might not be gone, but its turned around not for the better in many ways.