What's Happened To The Dream ?

[Bazile]

Just loaded up the Google page and noticed that they have an illustration of Maya Angelou - American Poet , Singer and civil rights activist .
Apparently she was born on this day in 1928 .

Also today marks 50 years since Martin Luther King was assassinated .

Last night I caught a bit on the news about black Americans in Milwaukee - America's most segregated major city .

They showed a black and a white man enquiring about buying/renting an apartment .
The black guy being told that it is not available and the white guy being told the total opposite .
Apparently estate agents still discriminate against black people when it comes to properties on their books

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-43623215/mlk-anniversary-what-s-changed-in-america-s-most-segregated-city

What's happened to Mr King's dream ?

Anyone got any opinions / views on the matter ?

[youngmafbog]

"Apparently estate agents still discriminate against black people when it comes to properties on their books"

I have no doubt that it does occur but the problem here is that they were looking for the response so one wonders what exactly was said/shown by the two applicants. People are refused accommodation for all manner of reasons.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes MLK railed against endemic racism in the US but what did he and others since do to dispel the hard line beliefs of the racists? Since then they have reinforced the black stereotype allocated them by the whites. Is it any wonder little has changed?

[Jackdaw33]

Nope.

[Bazile]

In what way TTT ?

[Prudie]

How shocking am I, had assumed all day that the google image was of Winnie Mandela :-(

[Tilly2]

Big fail, Prudie. :-)