Bobby Kennedy's Prescience

Robert Kennedy in an interview to "Voice of America" in 1968: Things are "moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years."

Obama was elected in 2008, exactly 4o years later.

And Ethel Kennedy, Bobby's widow, invited the then new senator Obama to deliver a keynote speech at an RFK 80th birthday event in 2005. At that event, before his campaign had even been spoke of, she referred to Obama as "our next president."

Got MLK?

MLK Day legislation was first introduced in 1968.

Illinois was the first state to adopt it as a state holiday in 1973.

Congress passed legislation for the holiday in 1983.

It was formally adopted as a federal holiday in 1986.

It took 15 years!

MLK's actual birthday is January 15th.

So government decided on the 3rd Monday in January.

There is a prescient convergence in the fact that MLK Day falls on the day before the inauguration this year.

Today we are nostalgically reminded of the dream.

And tomorrow we will see it's manifestation.