I Have A Dream!

I have a dream that one day it will be a natural occurrence and even an expected occurrence that people of all colors be friends. I have a dream that some day it will no longer be "wierd" or uncomfortable to dialog and really get to know someone who is different than me. Today I marched with a group of students from North Lawndale College Prep High School and community members in remembrance of Martin Luther King's assassination. We started at NLCP and went to the location where King lived when he came to Chicago. The plot of land happens to be exactly 1 block from my house. It was somewhat of an awkward experience because of cameras being all over filming our walk. I was really trying to get in the moment and reflect on the assassination. Not exactly a fun thing to think about but definitely something that needs to be remembered. Once we arrived at the spot, a few poems were shared and a few people shared dreams of their own. One girl who I knew because she comes into the fitness center where I work sang "Amazing Grace," rather well. Overall it was pretty low key but yet powerful at the same time. For me, the experience was quite upsetting when out of a crowd of about 100 people, mostly black, I was the first picked out to be interviewed by the news. I responded when the news anchor came over to me, which I felt was coming when she made eye contact with me, "I would rather not, but my friend Pastor Terrance may." I went to the event with my friend Terrance, who happens to be black. They chose to walk over to another white guy and he agreed and I was sort of pist. If you really think about the dream I shared at the beginning, from this action you can see we have quite a long way to go. The cameraman and the news anchor were white. Let's pray for our nation and let's pray Barack can CHANGE our nation! I also have a dream!