U.S. Common Sense

Let us take a moment out of our day to remember the man who was the face of one of the greatest movements within our modern history. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pulled together the cries of the Black community calling for equality for all men and women. Many who answered the call found themselves threatened and assaulted by those who did not share this belief. King was no different. After having his home and his family lives threatened, an assassin’s bullet found him while standing on a second-floor balcony in Memphis on April 4th, 1968. And while his life was extinguished, his message was not. The millions of black and white citizens around the country have carried his torch and have torn down almost all of the walls of prejudice in this nation. And while there are still some on both sides of the racial divide that cannot see past skin color, most in this nation now know we all bleed the same color, and that makes us all brothers and sisters.