Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Ever since I was a kid I've had a fascination with Dr. Martin Luther King. I even remember writing a paper about him for fun. There was always something about him that I loved.
Maybe it was his fearless leadership, maybe it was his powerful voice. I do not know. But I have always been attracted to his role in American Society.
I come from Alabama and I'm pretty sure we all know that Alabama was one of the fiercest racial states in the South. The Governor at the time of the Civil Rights movements, George Wallace, I can not say much about him because I was not alive then. But to think that he had the police "wipe out" the black race with fire hoses, and beat them with police rods, I frown upon the very thought of it. It is disgusting, it is violent, it is hatred at the very heart. I think it is cruel to treat any race that way. Whether they are African, Chinese, mixed decent, or even White it is not acceptable. It is not God's way.
Dr. King knew God's way. That is why at the March on Washington he said he was out to do God's work. God intends for us all to be on equal ground, brothers and sisters in society and at heart. I don't walk around campus or my hometown judging people by their skin. I don't run from them and speak evil of them when one of them walks by me on the sidewalk. I consider them a citizen of the United States who has the same amount of freedom and liberty and the same right as I do to walk the grounds that I walk, to go into the same store that I want to go into, and to be a part of the same school that I go to. It would be a shame to walk into a Church and see it segregated. Our Savior Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father do not want us to separate ourselves by skin color. Jesus Christ died for the sins of all mankind, not just the white people, not just the Jews, he died for us all. He does not judge on the basis of ethnicity, all are alike unto God.
I know that racial prejudice still continues in the South, I hear it all the time. In fact when I was at home this Christmas break I saw a rebel flag flying on a truck. To some it may just be symbolic of the South, but what it really is, is a symbol of the "Old South" a symbol of slavery, racial injustice and something in our past that we need to work on. The whites do not have an advantage over the Spanish, the Spanish do not have an advantage over the Blacks. We are all equal. I think it's time we start looking at each other through God's eyes, maybe then the world will change.