For your information, at noon CNN will be airing the entire ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, which is only rarely seen. They are also reporting that a new poll shows that, with the election of Barack Obama, over two-thirds of blacks think Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream has come true. Surprisingly for such polls, whites are less optimistic.

The poll found 69 percent of blacks said King’s vision has been fulfilled in the more than 45 years since his 1963 “I have a dream” speech — roughly double the 34 percent who agreed with that assessment in a similar poll taken last March.

But whites remain less optimistic, the survey found.

“Whites don’t feel the same way — a majority of them say that the country has not yet fulfilled King’s vision,” CNN polling director Keating Holland said. However, the number of whites saying the dream has been fulfilled has also gone up since March, from 35 percent to 46 percent.

In my experience, the polls usually show the opposite…that whites perceive less racism than blacks. The results are probably temporary, but they are a good indicator of how massively validating many blacks find the election of Barack Obama to be in their own lives.

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