I’m a wife and mom of two daughters. My daughters are 12 years apart so that keeps me quite busy and a little crazy at times. My life is a jumble of mixed up mishaps, but it’s always centered around my family.
The Dream Becoming Reality
August 28th, 2008 by Connie Roberts
Today, 45 years to the day of the March on Washington DC when Martin Luther King spoke his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, Barack Obama will be accepting the the Democratic party’s Presidential nomination in Denver Colorado.
I was only a few months old during that important day in history but I was taught about it by my parents, in school and later on in life researched it for myself. The march took on great meaning for me as I learned about Women’s Rights, especially the Suffrage movement. It also took on great meaning because of my own beliefs in civil rights for all.
As someone who now has chronic illnesses I have learned that wanting equality does not mean the same as wanting special rights. It means having the basic human rights that are given to others.
Barack Obama does not base his candicacy on his race, but on this historic day you cannot help but think back to a day when people had to organize to fight for equality in employment and freedom to gather and protest.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I would like to think that Barack Obama’s candidacy is not based on his race but unfortunately the fact that he is a black man is brought up constantly by the media and everyone else. It shouldn’t make one iota of difference what his race is and yet every single time I hear the words “first black man ever to be nominated” I cringe because that makes his race a big part of the equation.
I also sincerely hope that when people keep talking about Obama following in Martin Luther King’s footsteps they think about the fact that King’s footsteps were cut short because there were people who couldn’t see the dream that he had and that, sadly, there are still some people in this country that feel the same way. We may like to think we’ve evolved as a society but there are still a lot of holdouts that are too prejudiced to see the forest for the trees. I hope that security is ultra-tight for Obama and his family because I would hate to see him follow King’s footsteps too closely and suffer the same fate as that visionary did.
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