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Dream And Reality from the book Shining Through The Darkness Sermons For The Winter Season Michael D. Wuchter |
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How can one best understand Dr. King? What was it that formed and empowered him? To understand the primary influences in his life, one must begin on the western shores of Africa before the birth of this country, when the Portuguese first abducted a few blacks for slavery in Europe. To understand King, one must remember and feel the injustice and pain of millions of Africans forcibly transported from Africa to America.
At the age of six, King was told that he could no longer play with a white boy because he, King, was black. Shocked and hurt, King ran home. At the dinner table, his parents recounted the history of black people from Africa up to that particular Atlanta, Georgia, moment.
His mother then told him something that every African-American parent says to his/her children, "Don't let this thing impress you or depress you. You are as good as anyone else, and don't you ever forget it. You are ...