Because it is still relevant. Because those on whose behalf MLK spoke are still being judged by the color of their skin. Denied services, jobs, mortgages, dignity and even life because that first look tells the complete story in the eyes of far too many far too often.
Because the election of a black president, rather than being a symbol of healing, has served as the lance to America's recurring and seemingly incurable carbuncle. Globs and globs of poison, mind-numbing and body-paralyzing hatred being poured into an already contaminated body politic and with no end in sight.