Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
All Americans should celebrate the life of this great American and the minders of the Georgia State House located just blocks from the place of his birth in Atlanta, should find a more prominent place for his portrait, but I digress.
Below is my first Charlotte Observer column published January 16, 2007. So important have race relations been in my life that I made it the subject of my dead tree main stream media debut.
Let me add some context, two years on. Much of MLK’s dream has been realized, and tomorrows Inauguration of the first President of known partial African descent is just the latest and most visible.