Originally Posted by Kestrelman
"I have a dream! That one day we will live in a nation where we will not be judged by the color or make of our bicycles, or our choice of funny-looking clothing, but by the rapidity of our cadence and the tautness of our calves. I have a dream today.
When we let freedom ride, when we let it ride from every village and every hamlet, on every street and bikepath in every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's vehicles, automobiles and bicycles, motorcycles and skateboards, inline skaters and runners, will be able to join in a single paceline and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Nicely said. I know this was a joke, but it has a serious point (all good humor does).
Putting bicycles into MLK's I-Have-a-Dream speech shows the enormous difference between discrimination against racial minorities and discrimination against cyclists. One is evil. The other is unwise and annoying.