The mere fact that we have to ask if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of freedom and equality has come true gives us the answer we seek, and that is a resounding and emphatic, no. Simply being able to eat at restaurants, use public restrooms, and sleep in the same hotels as white people is not the realization of his dream. In his speech, Dr. King said, “When will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.” Given the recent exposure of extrajudicial punishment served by the hands of state-sanctioned thugs, that statement alone can answer the age old question of, “has the dream come true?” With the black unemployment rate consistently being double that of whites,
