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I'm Clay Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

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It is Monday, first show of the week.

I know it's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, holiday.

And, you know, I remember back when they first proposed this holiday, and I was like,

great, there needs to be a holiday set aside for Dr. Martin Luther King.

But now I'm beginning to feel so that it's a day in a lot of ways that pays merely lip service

to the man who said, I have a dream. His message was a glimmer of hope in the world about

equality and love, trying to break through the more massive inequality for some time.

It felt as though the dream was being fulfilled.

Then after the Obama administration, things went south. The dream had been taken over by

intrusive thoughts. The media wished to push the idea that the successor to President Obama

was a racist, and that was the impetus for the major divisions we face today.

Not just politically, but that issue is the racial divide.

That cuts to the character of Americans who have mature and have understood that we do need

each other, all colors and races. But at the very moment, when the issue of race might at long

last have been put to rest, it's now becoming the most important issue of all.

Just as minority groups have achieved once unimaginable levels of equality in America,

our society is more divided than ever on the issue of race.

And the more the division is fueled, the more we see segregation with the focus on how we are

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