Years ago, a coworker, my pb to my jam, or jam to my pb, suggested I read the 'I Have A Dream' speech. And just about every year since I have read it in observance of the day, rather the company I work for recognizes it or not.
That first time I read it I was amazed by just much goodness is in it before you even reach the I have a dream part and all it's memorable hope. There are gems throughout the speech. This year I both read and followed along as I listened thanks to this NPR article - Transcript of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech : NPR
You don't realize you don't really know something until you've sat down with it sometimes. In that, you think you've heard it, witness, or obtained the knowledge but there is a wonder, a beauty, in revisiting what you think you knew and discovering as well as rediscovering the magic in a piece. I feel this whenever I read the speech. The power in his words. The power of the people and how much we can accomplish when there is something much larger connecting us that we can stand behind/stand up for.
I am also reminded of something that Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello once said during an interview, his vote was with the people. I think the interviewer might have posed who he was leaning toward politically. There is something to be said about who/what we choose as representation. What it reflects about ourselves- 'the good/the bad/ the... still to be determined' and what is it that we recognize. Are we focusing on one part of the picture or looking at the global view. How honest are we about it all?
Writers gotta write, leaders gotta lead.
And with that - SNL with Dave Chappelle
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