Happy Birthday to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr! This year he would have been 80 years old. This man was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement which is the reason most of this is happening here today with the inauguration of our first African American President, Barack Obama some 46 years later.

Dr. King fought so hard in his short life span to bring hope and equality to all men that live in America. Living during a time when it was very hard for a black man to get any respect outside of his community. His march on Washington and delivering the "I HAVE A DREAM" speech has forever changed our history. Little do people know or maybe care to know that black Americans have done so much for this country. They have done so intellectually and also physically. We built the Capitol building in Washington DC with our bare hands. Now one day we can finally see the light. This does not mean in any way that it has changed the minds of all people because it truly has not.

My mother, father and grandmother and many more lived in the time of Segregation and for my mother and father to be able to see and witness various changes in history is such a blessing. Dr. King, there will never be another like him. I thank God that he fought for men of all races for the poor. As a matter of fact, to all of you history teachers out there, why don't make the kids learn the "I HAVE A DREAM" speech in addition to the other speeches from American History?

Excerpt from the "I HAVE A DREAM" Speech: "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.'"


Hopefully one day we will see each other as equals past our skin colors. Times like this we have closet racists and they are not open and there are plenty of them. Everyone that has taken the time and gone to Washington DC this weekend for the Barack Obama Inauguration have taken the first step in establishing a true community based on coming together despite the racial differences.

Martin Luther King, Jr had a dream that has now become a vision!

Please take the time and watch the speech and the march back in 1963