MLK would be alarmed by black-on-black violence, lack of family values

It is hard to believe that 50 years have elapsed since the famous I have a dream speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Mall in Washington. I was an 11-year-old child in Detroit languishing in the midst of poverty but very interested in the strides that were being made in the civil rights movement. I was quite optimistic that things were getting better for black people in America.