America has made great strides regarding oppression.  However, racism today in the 21^st Century is not as it was in the earlier years of the 18^th Century but we still have many challenges regarding race relations to be addressed.  African American’s have had its struggles with oppression in many areas and continue to do so in politics, social disconnect, education and economic hardships.  These areas of oppression continues to exist weakens, discourages, and damages the lives of so many who are trying to fulfill that dream which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. mentioned in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.  He stated he dreamed “that one day the 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 (King, 1964)’.”