Forty-seven years ago today, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech to over 200,000 civil rights supporters that included the now iconic words, “I have a dream…”
For the Rev. Martin Luther King, sing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZML-cY-0V8&feature=related
And the dream continues…
The Dream continues….
The moment I heard that he had been murdered is forever frozen in my memory. Pain, anger, sadness – and a terrible loss washed over me.
How fortunate we were to have had him – even if it was for way too short a time.
if ever an east asian american would have the guts take a bullet for ‘his people’ and their established and definitive ’cause’, that would indeed transform things overnight.
truth is, all east-asians need to at least openly see eye to eye and agree on the basics, before they can even move in the direction of unity…and out of that positive yearning and honesty, a leader would emerge, i imagine.