Today is the day we set aside each year to try to make “the dream” a reality.

I refer to the famous speech and vision of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

You can read the entire text of King’s famous speech, and watch a video by CLICKING HERE.

I have a theory when it comes down to race in America. Maybe it’s because of what I do for a living. My theory comes down to this:
Everything comes down to race.

Don’t believe me? Come in here and answer the phones some day. Read the Sound Offs that don’t make the paper. Read the comments that are posted on the stories on our Web site every day.

It doesn’t matter if it’s about crime in Upper Darby, or the Eagles signing Michael Vick.

It seems every story is seen in black and white.

A year ago I believed the nation had reached a milestone in race relations when Barack Obama was sworn in as the nation’s first African-American president.

A year later I’m not so sure. More than that, I’m not sure we’ll ever get beyond some of our issues with race.

Each year I marvel as I read the words and listen to Dr. King deliver his famous speech.

In part because of what I do, just once I would like to pen something with that kind of power. It is a tremendous speech, maybe the best speech I have ever read. And Dr. King’s delivery only adds to the thunder.

I just wish the dream contained a little more reality in our everyday lives.

That’s my dream.