Today is the U.S. holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. In one of the most famous speeches in American and world history, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C in 1963, Dr. King declared that “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.” In some ways, there has been tremendous progress made toward this goal for African Americans, measured by expanded economic opportunity, election to public office, and elsewhere. In other respects, such as the problems of a large number of African Americans remaining in poverty, there is still much to be done. And the United States, the most influential superpower and democracy in the world, has never elected an African American as president or even vice president. Regardless of your political positions or who you may support in the upcoming 2008 presidential election in the U.S., do you believe that Americans are ready to elect an African American as president, in terms of making their decision based on who they believe is best qualified, without regard to race?