50 years ago on this
day, Martin Luther King gave his “I have a Dream…” speech. And I realized I have
never heard it in its entirety. So I listened to it twice. It actually painted
a vision in my mind of how things really were. It was like I was watching a
video as I was listening. Just 50 years ago, black people couldn’t use the same
bathrooms at white people. Just 50 years ago, black people couldn’t drink out
of the same water fountain as white people. Just 50 years ago, Black people couldn’t
walk in the front door of a food joint. They had to pick up their food from the
back door. Those owners didn’t want other white people to see them in their
restaurant but they still wanted their money. Just 50 years ago, the circumstances were so bad that it took
250,000 people both black and white to stand up against a government and
demanded change. The overwhelming attribute that jumps out to me about this is
courage. It took courage for those black people to miss work and potentially be
fired by their employer and put themselves in danger just for being there. It
took courage for those white people that were there, who potentially faced
exile, ridicule, hatred and possibly death for standing up with black people.
It took courage for Martin Luther King Jr. to be the leader behind this
gathering of people. I can only imagine how much more in danger his life became
after becoming the face of change, equality and desegregation. It took courage for all of those people to decide
to continue their push for freedom because the speech was just a beginning.
Every person had to follow that with action until everything in that speech
came into manifestation. That was just 50 years ago. Both of my parents are in
their 50’s and I’m 27. I was born in wynne, Arkansas where there were railroad
tracks that the black people lived on one side and the white people lived on
the other. So this inequality, open hatred, open segregation, minimal
opportunity for education, slum living, racial discrimination, mental
oppression, and constant fear only missed me by 23 years. Most of you reading
this will be in the same age group, think about it. It only missed you by 20+
years. Even the white people, your lives you live today with black people as
friends, interracial relationships, going to school with black people, having
the freedom to choose who you want to talk to, hang with, or fall in love with
was not accepted just 20+ years before you were born. The “I have a Dream…”
Speech explains exactly what our lives would have been had we been born just 20+
years earlier. I strongly recommend that you become aware of the difference in
opportunity that you have today compared to your parents growing up. Know that
your parents telling you to “Go to College” means more than just going to
school. It meant that they grew up in a time where something we look at so
casually was, pretty much, an impossibility for them. I say that because many
of us have a dream to be something great but we cloud it with doubt, excuses,
and Lack of action. I strongly recommend that we get an understanding of the
courage displayed in, around, and following this speech. Through that we can
recognize the blessings, positions and opportunities we have been given living in this time period.
Then we can overlook the excuses, the doubt, or being stagnate and boldly and successfully follow in the
footsteps of Martin Luther King and those 250,000 people, to DREAM, STEP UP,
AND TAKE ACTION!
Mystery Priest Vanishes After Anointing Crash Victim
This Story just left me in aww of what god does. Click the link and it will take you to the video of the story. >>>>>Mystery Priest Vanishes After Anointing Crash Victim<<<<<<<<
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Man Walking across the United States!!! Very cool story
Alex Hrebin is a military veteran who served in iraq and Afghanistan but thats not the story here. He and his friend Dustin Merunka sat in a diner once for 24 hours during their first year of college. During this time they were just brainstroming crazy ideas they could do. Dustin came up with the idea to walk across the country, Alex jokingly said maybe they should try walking across jersey first. A year later tragidy struck and Dustin lost his life to a car crash. Alex went on to join the military then came back and finished his bachelors degree. Now 29 years old, he set out on the journey to walk across the country in memory of his friend Dustin Merunka. Check out the full story on the link below. Pretty cool friend right here.
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/veterans-cross-country-journey-fulfills-promise-lost-friend-181700689.html
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/veterans-cross-country-journey-fulfills-promise-lost-friend-181700689.html
Next Stop we are Diving In Bali!
Next stop is Bali, Indonesia." Bali is a province of Indonesia. The province covers a few small neighbouring islands as well as the isle of Bali. The main island is located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 34 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island.
With a population recorded as 3,891,428 in the 2010 census,[3] and currently 4.22 million,[4] the island is home to most of Indonesia's Hindu minority.........." This info plus more can be found on the Wikipedia page right here >>>>Bali Wiki Page<<<<<