When you have a cold, you go to the doctor.  The doctor, in turn, gives you antibiotics and tells you to take all of them because, if you don't, you'll just get sick again.  So, you begin to take the antibiotics, and you begin to feel better.  After you start to feel better, you stop taking the antibiotics figuring that you'll use them the next time you get sick.  As a result, you start to get sick again, and you find yourself back in the doctor's office.

The doctor in this is example is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The cold is racism.  As for you, you're America, and you're starting to get sick with the racism bug yet again.  Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream once, and he is still dreaming.  Here in the 21st century, we are still discriminating, and something tells me that Dr. King would be disgusted.

This all stems from this article that I found on Yahoo! News this morning.  A long story short: the northern part of Fulton County in Georgia wants to separate from the southern part on basis that "it is a quest for more responsive government in a county with a population greater than that of six states."  Geographically, this split makes sense.  (Refer to this map.  Fulton County is near 84 degrees west and 34 degrees north)  There is always more to a story than what is presented, however.  Conveniently, the northern half of this county just happens to be predominately white, and the southern half happens to be predominately minority.

Racism is not the only problem with this, however.  Economics come into play, as well.  Our middle class is disappearing.  That is no secret.  Though, by the speeches of our government officials, you'd think that it was just as strong as ever.  This split is also becoming a battle for the middle class.  Even though there's not much middle class involved in this dispute, it has everything to do with the middle class.  If this county stays whole, the lower-class citizens have a chance to use tax dollars from the upper class to become middle class.  Also, if the upper class continues to be taxed more because of the lack of tax dollars coming from the lower class, they'll be brought closer to the middle class.

America is sick right now, and someone needs to come forth and be the doctor to give out a new prescription of antibiotics.