Today is a great day in the history of America. Today the dream of one man have become a true – Martin Luther King, who was selfless fighter for the inalienable right of everyone to be equal to any other person. Martin Luther King was not a realist. He had a dream! And he believed strongly that it will be come true. Even he was willing to stake his entire destiny and life on a single turn of the wheel. He was killed, but his dream lives even after his death. In the hearts of millions.

Quate from the Martin Luther King Speech:

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true

Martin Luther King was born in January 15, 1929. At the January 20, 2009 the Barack Obama will accomplish part of his dream.

Today is the great day for every dreamer. It is one more example, that dreams come true! People die, everybody forget them. But dreams continue to live and come to the reality.

Today the dream was accomplished by America. But if we will desire stronger and believe – it will happen that one day all nations will rise and understand… that all men are created equal…

P.S.:Dominica celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama too: at the 12 o’clock it will be given 10 minutes of silence. And also there are many Caribbeans, who left to visit America to be more close to the great event.

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In the next couple of weeks millions of Americans from all over the global will be going to the polls on November 4th to elect a new president, between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. If Obama wins, would be the first black American President. But will Obama as the President of America be in the best interest of the Caribbean and the same can be said for John McCain.

Over on BBC Caribbean website, there is an on-going discussion forum on “US-Caribbean relations“, and how most of the Caribbean islands have excepted the US foreign policy under the Bush administration. More and more Caribbean migrants live in the United States that anywhere else in the world.

While relations between the US and the Caribbean have been good, there have nevertheless been policy differences on several issues, and the big questions by BCC Caribbean editors are:

Will get better with Obama?
Will there be gains with McCain?
Or will it be status quo no matter how it goes?

Share your thoughts in the comments.

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Photo via USMagazine.com – Isis, a transgender contestant on the new season of America’s Next Top Model.

In today’s world, the destructive sexually transmitted HIV/ AIDS pandemic haunts the very future of humanity and threatens the economic survival of numerous societies. As the world grapples with this phenomenally calamitous disease, many have taken up the mantle of preaching ‘safe sex’, ‘abstinence’ and ‘staying faithful to one partner’ in a so-called ‘morally loose’ world.

Countless International health organizations and donors are frantic with worry over the number of orphans, broken homes and broken lives that continue to result from the AIDS epidemic, particularly on the continent of Africa. And here in the Caribbean, statistics on the number of HIV victims living in our region are strikingly high. But despite all these dreadful facts, our world seems to be embracing bizarre sexual behaviour more and more…

I’m no ultra-conservative, but it often appears that our overly liberal mainstream media is promoting homosexuality and bisexuality as perfectly normal alternatives to heterosexuality. In the days of the Roman Empire, homosexuality was fashionable- and today history again seems to be repeating itself. The Californian gay community now has the widely celebrated legal right to ‘gay marriage’. What I want to know is why this is being viewed as an accomplishment.

I was very disturbed after reading a recent Newsweek article on the life of the late Larry King, a

15-year-old boy who was the victim of a gay-bias crime. Up till the day he died, Larry had allegedly never kissed a girl or boy, but he had declared himself gay. He was famous among peers for wearing stilettos and hitting on other boys. He was also exempted from the school’s dress code: he was allowed to wear makeup because of his right to self-expression, while girls were generally not allowed to do so.

If you look at documentaries on transgendered women and men, you may be led to believe that it’s a natural occurrence for a child to be born without The Creator having made a decision on his or her sex. In fact, the new season of America’s Next Top Model will feature Isis, a transgender wannabe model born male turned female. According to Isis, ‘my cards were dealt differently’.

I personally think the world has forgotten where to draw the line between respecting the differences of others and supporting and promoting bizarre sexual behaviour. Why is a rejection of absurd sexual orientation and behaviour viewed as a blow to human rights? Why should we support gay people who want to get married…can’t they just live together? Isn’t marriage supposed to be a sacred union between a man and woman?

I also wonder if animals can be gays or lesbians too- I’ve never seen any that are. Are human beings the only creatures with strange sexual behaviour- and if so, why? It would then seem as if homosexuality is not so normal, after all.

Yes, stigma is wrong. But I find it very alarming to know that we live in an era in which many children know what it means to be gay even before they know what sex is. To me, that just cannot be right.

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