Happy Martin Luther King, Jr., Day!
(And happy day off if you have one!)
I’m taking a reprieve from nursing the man and heading up to Frisco with my favorite grad school buddy. Should be a great day!
But, before I leave, I had to dedicate a post to MLK Jr. Day.
Several years ago, during my AmeriCorps year, I worked for the Colorado “I Have a Dream” Foundation. I still am a mentor for one of the kids I worked with, who is now a fifteen-year-old high school freshman.
(They grow up so fast…)
During my MLK Day with I Have a Dream, we took about twelve Dreamers (the kids in the program) to the annual Marade in Denver (Marching Parade if you didn’t get that…it took me about six months) to celebrate everything MLK stood for, and still symbolizes for many.
Many of the kids I worked with (along with my mentee) still face the issues he was trying to overcome, and that is the mission of the overall I Have a Dream Foundation: to level the playing field, to get equal access to education for all. I could get on my soapbox and overload you with my opinions and experiences about how messed up our education system is, but I won’t. I’ll just leave you with this quote and a photo collection. Because if a photo collection (and a quote) won’t put you in a MLK-Day mood, nothing will.
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
