Tomorrow Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America. Today we celebrate a man who helped make tomorrow possible. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great Civil Rights leader and an even greater man. The accidental leader helped accomplish many advances in the Civil Rights Movement to establish racial equality.
A special on MLK came on the History Channel as my dad was watching it last night. Although I wasn't able to watch all of it, most of it was celebrating all MLK had done. There was a comment at the beginning of the show that slightly bothered me. King's daughter told the interviewer that she thinks her father would be disappointed by the world today. I happen to disagree with this statement. True, there are many bad things going on in the world, but there are also many good things. I think MLK would be proud to know that the majority of Americans do not think of skin color when they first meet someone. That people of all different races work together side by side for the good of this country. There is not perfect racial equality yet but we're closer now than we have been. I believe a smile would be on King's 80 year old face if he could be there at Obama's inaguration. His smile would match the hundreds of thousands of faces next to his, and he would be able to look around and see that his dream for a better America was finally in motion.
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I think what she was saying is that her father would have thought the world would be farther along than we are now. Unfortunately, he was taken from us too early for him to see the work he did inspire.
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