I know exactly
where I wanted to be 50 years ago yesterday, and exactly where I was. I was a typical American 11-year-old, ready
to head outdoors for a late summer romp just before school started again. But I
never made it out the front door.
My Aunt
Margaret thought my time would be better spent sitting in front of the TV set,
listening to some guy called the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., give a
speech.
So I sat; I
listened. And when King finished his speech with that rousing "Free at
last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we're free at last!" I - in all my
11-year-old wisdom - just knew that I'd heard a speech that would be talked
about for years.
Well, it has
been. And, as each anniversary of the march on Washington has approached, there
has been much speculation on what King would have to say about today's America. That speculation has really been ratcheted up
for this 50th anniversary celebration. As usual, the question has been asked.
And, as usual,
some of the answers amount to flapdoodle.
Take last
Sunday's issue of Parade magazine as an example. The question "What Would
Dr. King Say Today?" was put to Stanford University historian Clayborne
Carson, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia and Bob Moses,
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