Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968 and Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968, which were tragic events for the civil rights movement that year. The document reflects on how hopeful Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech was while also noting his assassination, and that the author was born later in 1968. It expresses how Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality is still being achieved through the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president.