I too have a dream

Today, in the Star's Showbiz page, Rapper Jay-Z was quoted as saying "Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk, and Martin walked so Obama could run". Usually I dont pay much attention to such trivia but this one set me thinking of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech, part of which is quoted here.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I too have this dream - substitute Mississippi with Malaysia and paraphasing the rest. However, unlike the raptuous reception King got for his speech, I will end up in Kamunting under the ISA if I so much utter, or set in print, my paraphased dream.

But I still have this dream. I dream that you guys will read my blog and paraphase in your minds what I cannot do in words or writing. And the dream will live on, hopefully, to bear fruit and see the light of day in this land of God called Malaysia.