I have a dream

Friday, 08 September 2006

"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."

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I have a dream that my four little 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."

Martin Luther King vo svojom slavnom prejave snival o svete, kde by farba pokozky medzi ludmi nerozhodovala.

Bohuzial, ani dnes to este nie je pravda.

New York Times informuje, ako mestske reklamne spolocnosti v NYC musia pod hrozbou pokuty prijimat cernochov do vrcholovych pozicii.

"Finding that just 2 percent of the upper echelon of the advertising industry is black, New York City officials said yesterday that they had reached agreements with several of the nation’s biggest ad firms forcing them to bring more black managers into this crucial sector of the city’s economy.

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The commission has the authority to fine companies up to $250,000 or to sue them, but officials said that they believed the threat of pressure from agency clients like Pepsi and Citigroup was a more effective stick in bringing corporate leaders to the negotiating table".

America, the land of free, kam sa to uberas? :-(