Inheriting Dreams

I think I have watched the video of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s I have a dream speech 100 times since I put it on our about us page. Still gives me the chills listening to him. Dr. King, in my humble opinion, is the greatest American who ever lived. I wonder if we are only able to find leaders like that once in a generation, and that makes me wonder where ours is. Things are so difficult in America today. All our problems are intertwined to the point where you need a masters degree just to gain some understanding of the way the country operates. I cannot believe that this level of obscurity and complication was what the founding fathers intended. Laws are hundreds of pages long with secret passages and devious intentions buried within.

Sometimes I feel like we are are nation playing the children’s game king of the mountain. Each person trying to get to the top regardless of the cost for those they throw down. I listen to that speech and wonder if the message is still out there in the hearts of my countrymen and women. Is love and compassion a thing to be feared? Sadly, I believe it is. It has been 50 years since that speech. Those words are ours words, they are American words. Those words are my American dream, they are our inheritance. Worth more than Texas oil, or Californian gold. Worth more than silicon valley innovation, or Wall Street commodities. They lay there, in black and white mono sound just waiting for us to capture them. Who will do so?