Today is Martin Luther King Day 2015. I use this day to help raise money for a
scholarship for high school students. I
believe we should spend this holiday, helping the needy.
I listened to a lecture from a former NYTimes journalist Earl
Caldwell as he explained that he witnessed something different than the official
explanation about the assassination.
While he was speaking, I thought of the fall of the Berlin
Wall. Many people give Reagan credit for
that. I believe Reagan took more credit
than he deserved. When the wall was
finally broken through they sang “We Shall Overcome”. It was the marvelous work of Martin Luther
King and countless nameless and faceless people that helped give those
oppressed by communism another dream for their freedom.
I remember a journalist at the time reported “They (the East
Germans) want American freedom. The
journalist did not mention the struggle for civil rights as one of their
visions of American freedom.
So we should be proud that we live in a land where so many
were willing to put their life on the line like Dr. King, Medgar Evers, Viola
Liuzzo and others to sacrifice their lives, while making our country a place to
be admired for our freedom. We should
remember that the Dream of Dr. King, helped change the world.
