Today a nation celebrates one of humanity’s greatest fighter for peace, equality, and unity. Dr. Martin (Michael) Luther King Jr. Dr. King was born on January 15, 1929. King was born six years after my greatest hero, Folk’s grandfather. But this ain’t about my grandfather, this is about the problem with Hope. Or more specifically the problem with Barak Obama’s message of Hope and Change.

Calm y’all azz down! Let me speak first before y’all light up the comments…

Dr. Martin (Michael) Luther King Jr. gave our country a “Dream” to aspire to. A fantasy to grasp but with the opportunity and will to bring into reality. A dream that “we” destroyed, diluted, and turned into a nightmare. Thousands upon thousands of Black, White, Asian, Latinos, and other Folks took beatings and died for their children to live a better life with better opportunities.

I personally remember being called “boy”, “nigger”, and other things I dare not mention growing up black in the south. I’ve seen Klansmen on street corners in full regalia taking up money for their cause. I’ve been told things that my mind wishes to forget by my Caucasian cousins. Things that ripped my heart into pieces because I know that my blood has Caucasian roots intertwined with Indian and African DNA.

But I’m rambling… Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in his speech titled “Where do we go from here?“

…Now, in order to answer the question, “Where do we go from here?” which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now. When the Constitution was written, a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was 60 percent of a person…

In other spheres, the figures are equally alarming. In elementary schools, Negroes lag one to three years behind whites, and their segregated schools receive substantially less money per student than the white schools. One twentieth as many Negroes as whites attend college. Of employed Negroes, 75 percent hold menial jobs.

This is where we are. Where do we go from here? First, we must massively assert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amidst a system that still oppresses us and develop an unassailable and majestic sense of values. We must no longer be ashamed of being black. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy….

…Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

So, I conclude by saying again today that we have a task and let us go out with a “divine dissatisfaction.” Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice…

…let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.

So many people are putting the weight of the world upon the shoulders of Barak Obama. Similar to the weight that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. felt during his time here on this planet. The problem with Obama’s message is that of King’s.