One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land." in the context of "Martin Luther King Jr. I have a dream (1963) speechhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm" to mean that wisdom is timeless.