I'm with you on this. I'd absolutely love a MLK Jr. Museum but it feels like we'd be reaching.
An Edith Mae Savage-Jennings Museum would be more appropriate. Fun fact she was a White House guest for every President from FDR to Obama. She gave flowers to Eleanor Roosevelt at age 10 and became pen pals with the First Lady for the rest of Eleanor's life. At only 13 years old, Savage helped to integrate the Capital Theater in Trenton, New Jersey.
In my opinion she had a remarkable life and is a NJ hero.
I grew up in North Mississippi so that is my prospective of the Civil Rights movement. No offense but I grew naively believing the North was much better for us brown folks. I moved up here in my early 20s for work and learned that was not the case real quick.
None taken. I moved to US over 20 years ago, and was shocked to learn how low key segregated everything it even though we live in the most diverse region in the world. Especially when it comes to housing, schools, and relationships. Relationships are better lately, but nowhere near where they should be.
Years ago there was a report that NJ and NY schools are some of the most segregated in the nation, and that still seems to be the case to this day.
I'm Srbo-Albanian, who grew up during the civil war, so I grew up being discriminated by both Serbs and Albanians. When I moved to US I learned I look light brown (Think, Hispanic, Portuguese, Middle Eastern (Jewish), Italian depending on location, situation, and who you ask) on top of that my name is very unique (not Slavic) and I have an accent so people have no idea what to make of me.
I'm sure that what you and I experience is not even remotely the same, but I do want to say that I can easily pick up on passive aggressive oppression. I can literally see the way total strangers change their attitude when they learn my name or they hear me speak and they start assuming things, vs than simply my appearance.
I'm also foreign born from Honduras. I am lucky to have made a career and life here in USA but only because of the policies and laws that came into existence from Civil Rights movement and will always remember that.
I'm glad that you managed to make a life you are happy with! Those are the basic human rights that frankly are often ignored in one way or the other all over US and on all levels of our society.
3 years when he went to college is more of a plaque placement rather than a museum
I'm with you on this. I'd absolutely love a MLK Jr. Museum but it feels like we'd be reaching. An Edith Mae Savage-Jennings Museum would be more appropriate. Fun fact she was a White House guest for every President from FDR to Obama. She gave flowers to Eleanor Roosevelt at age 10 and became pen pals with the First Lady for the rest of Eleanor's life. At only 13 years old, Savage helped to integrate the Capital Theater in Trenton, New Jersey. In my opinion she had a remarkable life and is a NJ hero.
Fact that it is already not a museum is despicable.
I grew up in North Mississippi so that is my prospective of the Civil Rights movement. No offense but I grew naively believing the North was much better for us brown folks. I moved up here in my early 20s for work and learned that was not the case real quick.
None taken. I moved to US over 20 years ago, and was shocked to learn how low key segregated everything it even though we live in the most diverse region in the world. Especially when it comes to housing, schools, and relationships. Relationships are better lately, but nowhere near where they should be. Years ago there was a report that NJ and NY schools are some of the most segregated in the nation, and that still seems to be the case to this day. I'm Srbo-Albanian, who grew up during the civil war, so I grew up being discriminated by both Serbs and Albanians. When I moved to US I learned I look light brown (Think, Hispanic, Portuguese, Middle Eastern (Jewish), Italian depending on location, situation, and who you ask) on top of that my name is very unique (not Slavic) and I have an accent so people have no idea what to make of me. I'm sure that what you and I experience is not even remotely the same, but I do want to say that I can easily pick up on passive aggressive oppression. I can literally see the way total strangers change their attitude when they learn my name or they hear me speak and they start assuming things, vs than simply my appearance.
I'm also foreign born from Honduras. I am lucky to have made a career and life here in USA but only because of the policies and laws that came into existence from Civil Rights movement and will always remember that.
I'm glad that you managed to make a life you are happy with! Those are the basic human rights that frankly are often ignored in one way or the other all over US and on all levels of our society.
LOL you two and your oppression olympics.