Why State should make free education priority

“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous day break to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.”

That was Martin Luther King Junior on August 28, 1963 in the historic speech, ‘I have a dream.’ More than a half a century later, the African still is not free! Poverty still oppresses the black man, and so does disease, hunger and ignorance.