mlk and other thoughts

growing up martin luther king jr. meant really only one thing to me, an extra day off school. i grew up in a white american suburb that was upper middle class at its most modest stretch. i had one black friend in middle school and that was pretty much my extent of racial diversity. as i have grown older i have learned more of this man, of civil rights, of faith and fight so intertwined that speech and sermon became synonymous .  he put to feet what we only talk of. this man was an agent of more change in 39 years than others have in a lifetime.