We believed in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King. We believed in inclusivity, not exclusivity. King's widow, Coretta , praised Hume's efforts Monday as she presented him with the 1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize. But that doesn't mean King's dream has been achieved, said Andrew Cuomo, U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development. But he would point to how far we still have left to go.
Discrimination is still alive and well in America.
It is hard to admit, but we will never solve a problem that we will not admit. Cuomo said discrimination today is not the same as in the 1960s. It's the '90s style of discrimination. It's discrimination with a smile. But the banker never looked at the number box, he only looked at the color box.