Candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Iowa for 2014, Jonathan Narcisse addresses the guests at Des Moines’ annual MLK celebration. Narcisse asserts that the war on poverty that was begun by LBJ 50 years ago has not been won and poverty in Iowa is color blind. He invokes the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s speech Why We Can’t Wait. And, he asserts that the enemy to this war on poverty is “within” and “in the mirror.”

Candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in …