He had a dream, now he has a statue

It has been a long time coming. America has been waiting for it since Dr. King was assassinated. America has been waiting for it since he gave the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon. America has been waiting for it since before he was born. America has been waiting while reaching for the idea that someone might come along and galvanize the nation, raise voices for the poor, not just black, but poor of every color. Now, after all those years, just as somehow it was inevitable that there would one day be a first black president, there is now the first monument of an African American on the National Mall. The memorial stands on a 4-acre plot at the edge of the Tidal Basin between those of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. Its address is 1964 Independence Ave. S.W., a reference to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That's right, Martin Luther King Jr, the civil rights leader who had a dream, now has a statue on the National Mall. That's a good way for whites to repay blacks after making them endure such horrid rubbish as slavery and segregation, but I hope Obama gets a statue there someday.