“Stand up for right” was the central theme for Muskegon’s largest MLK Day events. “We talk about inequality in our classroom quite a bit and ways that young people as nine, ten year-old people can actually work to fix inequality”, Maggiore said.
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Keynote speaker state Senator Angela Turner finished the program with a speech. “It’s not a holiday just to take the day off but it’s an honor”, said Parkin. “Standing side by side, brothers and sisters, no matter what your race or religion is”, said Sara Awad. Today, he gives civil rights tours in Atlanta. She said she looks at generations now and is thankful for the struggles she faced so children now don’t have to face the same hardships.
“There are always people that have campaigns behind them, but I think it’s going to be pretty hard”, Jacobs said. “So we still have his dream today, and if we don’t continue reminding people of that, we’ll lose that focus of our leadership”. “But what you can do is learn from history and not repeat it”, Walker said.
‘”I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits”‘.
“Some of the violence that goes on here, it’s very sad that us blacks are killing each other the way they are”, she said. “But I read a lot about him in grade school, I’m actually here to pay my respects to him here on his birthday”. The Columbia chapter of the Martin Luther King Memorial Association organized the event.
She tells me she made her way here all the way from Augusta.
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News 3’s Courtney Cole shares her experience after spending the day at the parade. “And so this is a way to bring this out for everybody to enjoy and to think about what it means as Americans, a diverse country, a diverse city”, says NAACP Publicity Chair Wes Reeves.
