Happy Birthday Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King

Happy Birthday Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Surely, Dr. Kings four children are black. But there is no denying that he intended that this idea be for all children, and that it would stand as truth and hope for every race, nationality, creed, and religion yesterday and today.

Is not affirmative action, some of our quota systems and forced, not sincere, tolerance a direct contradiction to the above and probably the most famous quote of probably the greatest civil rights hero?

Happy Birthday Martin.

There are many women and minorities who don't want equality and equal opportunity, but only to get their pound of flesh and do what has been done to them by men and groups that through out time has been the majority.

Affirmative action has become less of a way to even out the playing field and combat sexism, racism, and all injustice, but has become a system of "RoundRobin" tactics that produces hit or miss results for America in every area.

Affirmative action has become less of a door opener for the well qualified unjustly shut out, and more of a buddy system to justify undue favor (while some favor is good and just), and even it has become an avenue for revenge and reverse bias. It has become more so what it was once the answer to.

In all cases, it is those that are the right person but still suffer from real bias that still exists that lose out. And also, the big loser has been all of America, from the smallest hill to the grandest mountain.

America is worth having at all times the right people in the right place. If that yields a body of leaders that is comprised of a greater percentage of any gender, race or other outer characteristics that have nothing to do with the work, rejoice. Rejoice that life will be good and well because good people who can and will do well are in their proper place.  All in their proper places because of purpose, passion, and performance gives us all a better and the best chance in life, regardless of who you are and where you come from.

Down with affirmative action. It played its role well, but it is time for an exit strategy. It is more used to block excellence now. Let all of America seek to be all that it declares it is; a nation of Liberty and Justice for all.

I am a Black Woman from Hempstead, Ny. May the works I've done speak for me. May I be judged by the content of my character, and not the color of my skin or any other superficial description, even if its favorable towards me.  God bless America. I trust you and you can trust me.

I am the new face and new voice of courage in this new Civil Rights Era. Let it now be synonymous with,  and also called the Era of true Equality and Equal Rights.

I am America. I am world.

We have come from a longing for and faint hope unto an audacious and fiercly aggressive Hope, let us now move forward and demand a manifestation of every good promise set by our founders and by that divine providence by which we have already come so far.

Glory BE!

Yulanda K.

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