MLK Jr. Day

As I sit here with my daughter on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I wonder how the world will be years from now when she is older. On August 28th of this year, it will be 52 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his I have a dream speech. Although that seems so long ago 52 years is not that very long ago. Unfortunately, the world is still full of discrimination, racism, and prejudices. It is sad but true. I question if the world will change toward Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality. I am a bi-racial male, my father is African-American and my mother is bi-racial with Native American and Caucasian. Twice I have been pulled over for stealing a vehicle that I owned, countless approaches by store staff who were not helpful but were following me, security called on an aisle I was on by myself, and even a couple of weeks ago a cop approached me as I was entering my vehicle to tell me that there was a complaint about where I was parked. Also during the Christmas Season, I attempted to have a special night with my wife and took her to the Billy Graham Library. As we entered the house that sits on the property there was a sign that said that there was to be no food or beverages in the house. There happened to be a choir outside the house and they had placed their hot chocolate on the sidewalk area outside the house. My wife placed her hot chocolate approximately 6 feet from there cups. After we turned the house we exited and I retrieved my wife’s hot chocolate just to be stopped by a white male with the choir who questioned what I was doing with the hot chocolate. It is just amazing that people of color are still coping with these types of things. That is not to say that there haven’t been steps in the right direction but the fact that it has been 52 years since that wonderful speech is crazy. I celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and thank him for his sacrifice for the cause of equality. I think it appropriate to end this blog with a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Stay blessed everyone and have a wonderful day.