“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
By ESENDOM
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. in 2021 is as important as in no other time in American history. After a year that saw almost four hundred thousand Americans die from COVID-19, the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers, the passing of John Lewis, as well as the culmination of a four year presidential term that undid all the progress made since Abraham Lincoln's presidency and divided a country to the levels of the US Civil War, there is a need for a dose of MLK's wisdom and compassion. A couple of days before Kamala Harris, the first female African American Vice President, gets sworn in and inaugurated his DREAM has more meaning than ever and needs to be talked about. Let us not forget Selma and the sacrifices made to get to this exact moment in time because we all have a dream that will ask that we continue the fight to see it through.
“The time is always right to do what is right.”