As we enter into a weekend that commemorates a man that we all can relate to in some sense, I chose to reflect on how Dr. Martin Luther King has impacted the United States and me personally with his efforts for social change. We are all familiar with the dream of Dr King, the dream that not only black people would be treated with respect and equal access, but that all people would be treated in this way.
Dr King recognized that though black people were free physically from slavery, they still walked in chains and were treated as unequal. He fought for freedom in every sense of the word in a peaceful manner. Because he lead the fight of social change, people are given freedoms that he as a black man did not experience in his life time. Sometimes when I sit in a place where no one else looks like me, it reminds me that at one time in life a person that looked like me would not be allowed to sit there or eat there. I would not have equal access. When I sit with my children in places like this, I tell my children someone fought for us to be here or someone died for us to be here.
These type of experience push me to continue the fight for social change. I do what I do because I am passionate about all people receiving equal access to education, health care and life in general.
Thank you Dr King and the others that came before us.
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