Gary Crum, to coin another metaphor, I have long believed that our nation is like a great horse, a horse that can plow a field in a day, but that it is lame in one leg.  That leg is constituted of our citizens with dark skin, especially of African ancestry.  Though our horse pulls strongly, it could pull still more strongly if only that leg were cared for as well as is the rest of the horse.

America is a great country; but if we became the first nation that treasured those of African heritage to the degree we treasure those of European heritage, all the world would see that we are the greatest nation in the history of mankind.

I hope to live to see that day, but, how long, my lord, must I wait?