Civil Rights.

Why is it that we need focus on civil rights?  Why is it as human beings we cannot be cognizant of, respectful of, full of agape love for our fellow human beings regardless of race, creed, or color?

Why is it that innocent children are immediately limited by their financial status in the world?  Why is it that these precious children, the future of our world, do not have equal access to the best education possible?

Why is it that we as a society are sending our precious resource out into the world without a fair chance of competing?

A person that makes the statement:  "If I can do it -- then, anyone can" is misinformed.  Why?  Because a child must be taught healthy discipline, the ability to fail and come to know that failure does not define you as a failure.  A child must be taught:  delayed gratification.  Isn't that what it takes to get through college?   Grad school?  To go from an entry level job, with a college education ... to pay "one's dues" as society seems so bent on demanding?

How is it that I presume to KNOW?  Well.  I have a master's degree.  I was an older student.  IT WAS REALLY HARD.  Coursework was easy -- professors most challenging.  I one wrote a paper, fifty pages, with 30+ resources.  My professor made me re-write it 4 times and then, quite cavalierly wrote on this paper:  "This is C work, but, out of the goodness of my heart I will give you a B."  And you know what?  This was quite normal in the everyday life of a grad student.  Demoralizing I tell you.  A student needs to learn the difference between being a "poor student" and a difficult professor.  Truly I would not have survived the experience without the dear friends who loved and supported me through the trauma of "higher education."

I tell you:  NOT EVERYONE CAN DO THAT!

Our world NEEDS to HONOR civil rights for all ... but more, much more for the lower socioeconomic child who begins with the deck stacked against them ... and that includes all races.  Personally ... I believe Martin Luther King, with all his areas of weakness was a hero!  He was a man of love for his fellow man!