2008 Woodie Awards
Both Kings deserve honor
Ta-Kara Roquemore
Issue date: 1/16/07 Section: Voices
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This particular day also was the first year she was not present for the celebrations. Although she passed away last January 30th and they are both resting in peace, their deaths were not in vain.
Washtenaw Community College will be honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., this upcoming Thursday January 19th at the Morris Lawrence Building with a program. The event is being coordinated through the African American Student Association here on campus (AASA). DeVaughn Swanson, Vice President of AASA who is working together with other coordinators of the event said, "The words expressed in the program hopefully will be uplifting for our generation as they were for Martin Luther King's Jr's."
Our lives may seem to shatter left and right in this ever-changing war-crazed society, but our dignity has not left us. Each day that we fight to overcome prejudices we might have about another ethnicity we are one step closer to achieving King's and his wife's goals of peace, love, erasing poverty, and giving equality for all.
Without Coretta Scott King pushing and staying out of her comfort zone, I do not know if the world would have known this Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Her commitment and devotion she had was and currently is a major achievement. Mentioning this does not downplay the day highlighted for Dr. King, but it enhances it merely to say that they both were good in their own right. They were equal. They were the formula America needed. This day is about both of them.
We might not be able to fill their shoes because those were some big shoes to fill, but we can come close. In reading through Dr. King's speeches I would have categorized them as being more than just concrete great pieces of work-but they are words of power. Just as they enriched the everyday individual's soul then, they still can today.
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