To MLK, "Today is That Day".................. [View All]

[louis c]

I am a 56 year old White, Italian-American. My father was a close Friend and adviser to US Senator Edward W. Brooke, the first African-American US Senator elected since Reconstruction. Barack is the third. I was brought up always following the Creed of MLK, not just because he said it, but because I learned it by my father's example.

Alas, that hasn't always been the case for the entire nation..........until today. I sense being a small part of history, just as my father was 42 years ago today. To be perfectly honest, I have never seen Barack as black. I have just seen him as a man who shares my beliefs against the war in Iraq and my beliefs in restoring the middle class as a cure to an ailing economy. The fact that his skin color is darker than mine is irrelevant, just as Ed Brooke's skin color was irrelevant to my father.

With that background, Martin Luther King's words in 1963 ring loud and clear in my ears today.

"...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"

Today is that day. We should all be proud.



link:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm