Martin Luther King day...We Remember

Today marks the celebration of the birthday of Martin Luther King. A great man in his time who pioneered the civil rights movement in the 60's. Though I was born near the end of his life; I remeber in school studying about the Martin Luther King.

I grew up in the Northeast. Maybe it was the times or the area I grew up in....but the issue of segragation never really seemed to poke his head out at us. I was taught that all people were created equal and we treat each other as we would want to be treated. I studied a lot about Martin Luther King in school. I beleied in his cause and his non violent nature way of getting his point across. Back in 1986 the federal government acknolwedged his birthday with a federal holiday. The first non president to have that honor bestowed upon them. We recognize it as the third monday of January every year.

I live in Charlotte North Carolina now and have for a few years. This year do the mother nature the children lost a few days of school last week. Approved a few years ago was to use today (Martin Luther King Birthday) as one of the makeup snow days. Well the NAACP is up in arms over this....yet they are not arguing about the fact that one of our founding father's birthdays (George Washington) is being used as another make up day. Or that Lincoln Birthday is being used as a make up day. It bothers me that they would say that they are going to protest the children going to school today...

I think if Martin Luther King were alive today he would want the children in school. That was one of the things he fought for. In fact, Charlotte would make him proud. The school system spends more on minority low income children per student than any other class of students in the school system. Is that not what Martin Luther King wanted? A time where we all were treated equally and fairly...All given the same opportunites to education?

I may be a northerner who moved to the south. But, one thing I am certain about. Equality is a two way street and eventhough we have taken his birthday for the education of our children; we have also taken some of the greatest President's birthday's for the education of our children. And if history has told us one thing we are all created equal and the need to be treated equally....I think the Charlotte School system has done that....

So yes I have sent my children to school...but that does not mean i think any less of what Martin Luther King did for us as a society and a world.....He had a dream and I think his dream is living in each of us.

Dave diCecco
Realtor/Broker
www.davedicecco.com