Just Another Day?

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Today is the 84th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, and yes, he died 45 years ago this April from an assassin's bullet. And it has been 50 years ago in August, 1963 that King give his "I have a dream..." speech in Washington, D.C. and the point of what civil rights for all would mean to the country and people.

Much of what King did is in many of our memories as events we witnessed and experienced as they happened. Today, two generations have passed since these events occurred, with a third beginning. And today, many will still be learning what those events of the fifties and sixties civil rights actions meant and have come to be as to what most of us believe as to equality and the striving to deal with the legacy of racial discrimination.

We also, this year, recognize the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation that made the objective of the Civil War a matter of the end of slavery as much as it was to preserve the union.

And of course, today, there is the second inauguration of the first African-American president.

As this transpires much will be said about all of the above, and rightly so, as we have accomplished much to be a country that can be multi-racial, multi-ethnic and a lot of other multies. Our question is and will be with all, can there be one, or, can it be only many of many looking to take advantage over others.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal".