http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/29/1011562/-Most-of-you-have-no-idea-what-Martin-Luther-King-actually-did
Yesterday was the official holiday, and I am in Atlanta, Georgia, where Martin Luther King Jr. grew up, preached, and is celebrated every day. I was enjoying the most beautiful weather with my family ironically at Stone Mountain, which has some historical sites of the confederacy era.
http://www.stonemountainpark.com/
We went there for the ride up to the mountain and the hike down, it was fun and great weather, great activity for kids.
I love to keep learning about amazing figures in our history, and the article above really spoke to me. I am a Russian immigrant, my family experienced extreme discrimination and Anti-Semitism in Soviet Union times. In America we are white, in Russia we were Jewish, it was our nationality, it was written on our Passports which we had to show everywhere we went. My parents had difficulty finding work once they showed their Passport, and once we decided to leave the country a bomb was slipped under my dads car, luckily he went out to take a look at what was glowing under his car, pushed it away with a stick, went up close to check it out, and when he walked away deciding that he was tired and wanted to go to bed, it blew up.
I bless my parents every day for taking my brother and I to a better life with freedom and opportunity. Martin Luther King Jr. was a champion for African-Americans for a better life with freedom and opportunity.
Each person has a chance to thrive,
Thank God,
Coach Yulia
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