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Are we players on the
world stage?
by Maxine Session
Everybody is so
busy. If you listen to what people are
saying around you, Conversations are
like sounds from a movie
clip.....”School is starting soon. But
it was just out, it seems, a few weeks
ago. The presidential election is just
weeks away. Is Iran producing
nuclear weapons? What is the
schedule for Monday night football and
Friday night high school games?”
Meanwhile, Tyler Perry’s next movie”
“The Family that Prays” will be in
Theaters September 12th. Oprah’s
“The Color Purple” live performance will
hit the Texas stage September 20th in
Houston and October 4th in Dallas.
By now if you don’t have tickets for the
Color Purple, it’s probably too late. Is
there a way to keep up with it all?
August 30,1963 Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. spoke before 200,000 people giving
what has become known as the most
important speech ever given in American
History, the “I Have A Dream” speech. It
was given on the steps of the Washington
D. C. Lincoln Memorial. August 30, 1963.
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Little did
Dr. King or anyone else know
then that forty-five years later
the words from that speech would
have resounded around the world
in churches, community
buildings, forums and yes the
legislative chambers of
government capitols.
No one knew just
how powerful an impact those
words would have on the hearts
of many American people who for
so long had characterized anyone
different as inhuman and
unworthy. Those words have made
a difference in the rights and
lives of all Americans...Black
Americans, women, gays, the
disabled, children and many,
many others.
The civil Rights Act of 1964 was
signed by President Johnson less
than a year after King made his
speech.
He was very deserving of the
Nobel Peace Prize which he was
awarded in 1963.
The United States is known
around the world. It has been
known as one of the richest and
most powerful countries to be
reckoned with on all fronts. And
though it talks a great story on
human rights, it is well known
around the world for its ill
treatment of African Americans.
Now that a man with mixed
ancestry of white and black is
running for the highest office
in the land, America is being
watched to see how this plays
out. The world is watching
the United States as though the
government and citizens are
actors on a stage. The outcome
is going to be a true test as to
just how far America has evolved
to become that of Dr. King’s
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