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But I often wonder: How many people do not dream at all because they don’t believe that they are capable of achieving?

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the “I Have A Dream Speech” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And it’s also my birthday.

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In fourth grade, the prospect of shrugging and looking down at my holiday construction sheet (complete with a menorah, a Kwanzaa candle-holder thing, and a tree. How PC!) destroyed me. So I lied.

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Is Barack Obama the fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Dream or the American Dream? Because make no mistake about it: the two dreams are not the same. The first is the dream of greatness; the second is the dream of success. The first was inspired by the universal brotherhood and sisterhood of man. The second was inspired by the universal desire to be The Man.