A 12 Year Old Reclaims The Dream

Today it is Thursday August 26 ,2010 and I am expecting 13 YIA members to spend the night. As I leave school and mommy starts her van pick up from Gwinnet to morrow in one evening with stops in Stone mountain and Atlanta . I start to go down my check list Posters Markers T-Shirts and plenty of excitement. After all the teens are picked up we began talking about how excited and happy that we will be a part of the 4 7th anniversary of Dr. Kings march on the Lincoln memorial and how we are truly stunned that we will be apart of history.

As we walk through the door and everyone is making my living room basement and bedroom look a slumber party. Then you could her my mommy “Ok now everyone do your home work . because education come before changing the world”. Then we hear a knock on the door and my daddy comes home and lays down the law about the house. Then he begins to cook out on the grill and tell us all about the Arkansas Nine that were beaten and jailed to end segregation. Then we all stayed up late talking and comparing ourselves to civil rights leaders. My best friend got voted Hosea Williams and Bashel was voted Andrew Young . They told me I was a cross between Huey Newton And Dr. King. I was honored. Then my daddy told everyone lights out boys went to the basement with him.