MLK Day 2010. A year has passed and the euphoria has subsided. I've been reflecting for the past couple of weeks on a phrase that made its way through the media and onto t-shirts and wall plaques in the fall of '09, and which I again only recently stumbled upon in a activist bookstore. The timing was poignant, a few days after president Obama's Dec. 1st. announcement at West Point of his decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan. The Phrase: "Rosa sat so Martin could walk, so Obama could run, so our children can fly." On this Martin Luther King Day I cannot help but dream another world is possible.
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MLK Day 2010. A year has passed and the euphoria has subsided. I've been reflecting for the past couple of weeks on a phrase that made its way through the media and onto t-shirts and wall plaques in the fall of '09, and which I again only recently stumbled upon in a activist bookstore. The timing was poignant, a few days after president Obama's Dec. 1st. announcement at West Point of his decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan. The Phrase: "Rosa sat so Martin could walk, so Obama could run, so our children can fly." On this Martin Luther King Day I cannot help but dream another world is possible.
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- Year Created: 2010
- Submitted to ArtBase: Monday Jan 18th, 2010
- Original Url: http://www.flawedart.net/hadadream
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Work Credits:
- mark cooley, creator
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