Martin Luther King Day

We have this day to honor a dream of not evaluating people based on race and yet the federal government and all 50 states continue to operate numerous programs specifically targeted at people based on their race or ethnicity:

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.

And this is what King had to say about the Nation of Islam:

The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best-known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement. Nourished by the Negro's frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible "devil."