A man with a dream,

In our society today, there are a lot of choices needed to be made but some of us don't know where to begin. Jamaica High School students are so confused that they end up either making the wrong choices or not making any at all.

There was this man with a dream that ran far beyond a thousand acres
He was a man with dignity, great courage and strength who believed in hope and in the progress
of change. He made a choice and this choice changed our lives today.

He was African American, but saw us all as brothers and sisters.
A Civil right leader, a hardworking member of society who pushed and fought against discrimination with Rosa Parks and Malcolm X. He lived his life fighting for what he believed in, which was the only thing he knew.

A husband, a reverend of a christian church and a father.
Born in 1929; Atlanta, Georgia he was raised.
He got arrested, got beaten up, degraded in value and disapproved because of his skin.
He died in 1968, but left us the message of that dream.
It was the dream of love, a dream much greater than our footsteps, running far beyond a thousand acres. He was our freedom right leader, he had a dream. His name is Martin Luther King.

Ironically, freedom is now given to us on a silver platter, but we take it for granted.
We are now living in a world where everything is taken as a joke, and nothing is taken seriously. 20-30 years back, African American didn't have much freedom as they do now, but now that they have a little bit of freedom in their hands, they tend to misuse it. They are free to do as they wish to a certain limit, but it remains that it's limitations doesn't go beyond killing an innocent baby: abortion. Who determines to take the life of an innocent soul?


Perhaps, if Jamaica High School students had followed in his footsteps, they wouldn't be in the predicament that they are in right now.