Over the past week many people have spent their time celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of an America where we’re no longer divided by race, but old prejudices linger.

In Missouri, a couple pleaded guilty on Wednesday to violating their African-American neighbors’ civil rights by setting their home on fire with Molotov cocktails and writing Nazi swastikas and other racist signs on their driveway.

Logan J. Smith, 25, and Victoria A. Cheek-Herrera, 34, pleaded guilty to concocting and carrying out the racially motivated crime.

“By pleading guilty, Smith and Cheek-Herrera admitted that on June 26, 2008, they conspired to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate an African-American couple and their minor children in the free exercise of their constitutional rights to occupy and rent their home in Independence, because of their race and color,” the Kansas City division of the FBI said in a statement.

Smith told the court that he drew swastikas and wrote “White Power” on the driveway before pouring gasoline into a glass, inserting a rag, setting it on fire, and tossing it at their African-American neighbors’ home.

“You’re pleading guilty because you are guilty, is that correct?” U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes asked the defendant.

“Yes, sir,” Smith answered.

Smith and Cheek-Herrera could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison each and could be fined up to $250,000.

The case was investigated by the FBI. An attorney from the Department of Justice assisted with the prosecution of this case.

h/t: CBS St. Louis