Your correspondent wrote on the date of Barack Obama's election victory that his electoral success was a landmine buried beneath a landmark. Mr Obama's victory is not the culmination of the civil rights movement, but it is a very important landmark: it marks the time America accepted a non-white man to the highest political office. It is indeed a landmark. But Mr Obama's election does not mean that racism no longer exists. That's silliness; Mr Obama's life experience is, after all, different from most young black children. He grew up outside of America and never grew up associating a low socioeconomic status with race.

But the race still has everything to do with socioeconomic status. Mr Obama's election is a landmark, not a capstone.

This report from the CNN-Opinion Research Group, then, is alarming:

"The poll found 69 percent of blacks said King's vision has been fulfilled in the more than 45 years since his 1963 "I have a dream" speech...the number of whites saying the dream has been fulfilled has also gone up since March, from 35 percent to 46 percent."

CNN's polling division has unearthed a land mine. The civil rights movements around the world, be it for race, gender, sexuality, or religion must use Mr Obama's story as a rallying cry. Mr Obama's story cannot be seen as the end of the movement.

There is injustice yet to be fought and vanquished. American civil rights leaders and activists must publicly and loudly side-step this land mine.