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I read the "I Have a Dream" last night at work on my breaks and between calls. The thing about my reading it last night is that it was my first time familiarizing myself with the speech. Sure I had heard the 'I have a dream...' line over and over again, but I had never sat down and read what Dr. King had to say about the state of the Negro in America in the early 1960s.
I read it and was moved. I was moved probably just about as much as a white man attending the speech was moved, but the difference in how I felt was that I can see where those words brought the African-American community today.
I look at the music culture that the African-American community has spawned as the epitome of cultural debasement and avoid it at all cost. For this reason, it has been hard for me too look at the culture in a positive light for some time, but after reading this speech I can honestly say that we have come a long way in being able to '...sit down together as brothers and sisters.'
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