dr. king marched on the mall and even after that, they could not break the fall southern filibuster in the senate for it required the assassination of john f. kennedy a few months later and lyndon johnsonthern president since the civil war, by the way, to bring that about. i think we have to recognize as americans whichever political side we are on whether we are white, black, brown, or yellow, we need to recognize that given that history, that this is a very difficult topic. if we can talk about it in mutual respect and if we can agree or disagree without being disagreeable, i think we will go a long way. on an optimistic note, no, i don't know what it means to have felt the sting of that discrimination. as a southerner, i have seen it. i have had friends who have experienced it. i would just say that you look at where we were 47 years ago when an african-american in the south could not go away restaurant or lunch counter or get into a school of the wanted to. that is where we were 47 years ago today. today, not far from here, a mile from here, an african-american sets in the white house and there are african-americans in congress and we still have a first amendment that protects the