My father-inlaw got an invitation to the Martin Luther King Breakfast held by Al Sharpton.He invited my husband and I along with my 2 oldest boys to experience it. I had to work so they made it a man's day. My family is an interracial one. My husband and his father are of course white and my 1st 2boys(who have the same hispanic father that is semi involved) are being raised in this giantic interracial community we call a famlly. They were getting a history lesson from these from the two people that loved them and in Dr.Kings day would be the least likely to give that particular lesson.
They listened to the likes of Mayor Bloomberg,Senator Shumar,Gov.Spitzer,a hiphop pioneer,the widow of Sean Bell, and many others on the subject of Dr.king and what his accomplishments meant and still mean to us as a people and as a society as a whole. I have my ups and downs and my marriage is no fairytale but at least I have the right to make the decision of who and what I want. This too was also Doctor King's dream and I feel yesterday was what he envisioned. As if my life and the thousands that live exactly like it is what it was all about. It is part of that dream that was so important to not just one man but thousands upon thousands of people. I asked if one man could make the difference? Well this is one instance that the dream and actions of one man D.I.D.
What Hillary missed was that had it not been for the actions of that "ONE" man in combination with many others,the other(Linden B.) would not have cared nor thought to have signed the neccessary Bills into law.
(Which by the way was never made an actual law it is a bill that gets passed every 25yrs)
It took his dream to push us into evolving as a society and as human beings. I think we still have a ways to go but at least we've moved this far.
I was proud of how my boys spent their day. And although they won't appreciate it till they get older I told them they should be proud and greatful too=)
