Martin Luther King

When I really started to understand what had gone on 30 years before me – during the 50′s and 60′s and how divided the country was about the color of someone’s skin – was in high school. Racism was a little confusing to suburban GenXer’s who never experienced that America. Today, America is better because a new generation, a generation that grew up believing in equal opportunities, is now taking up leadership positions around the country. I grew up with kids from all over the world. Different races, ethnicities, from many different countries. How could I think that I was any better than the kid sitting next to me who went to the same school, lived in the same neighborhood, and and drank from the same water fountain? Unfortunately, this was not the experience of my parents or their parents. They lived in a world where if you were black you had to sit in a certain place on the bus, go to a different school, live in a different neighborhood … drink from a different water fountain. We recognize the utter stupidity of this now.