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The "Whites Only" and "Colored Only" signs can only be found in Civil Rights museums today in the U.S. As the nation prepares to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s holiday and Black History Month, we must not become so caught up with the elaborate events and articulate guest speakers that we forget about "Bombingham". Separate has never been Equal. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama in May 1963. Seven months later, the nation mourned as President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. When I was just six-years-old, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. I don't remember how my baby crib looked (if I had one), but I crystal clearly remember my mother telling me how she and her elementary school peers had to look down, and get off the sidewalks when white students passed by them. She recalls the derogatory regular use of the N-word by these white students towards black children (and often towards black men and women); as if their racist actions were personally sanctioned by the U.S. president. A Change Had To Come. Yet, Birmingham has certainly changed, and Jim Crow is only a memory that some Confederates conjure in their minds when they remember the Old South. In the same city where firehoses were used to control "Colored" protestors, Oscar Brennan served as the first Black Birmingham Fire Chief. In the same city where three little black girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that shook and shocked the nation, a little black girl named Condoleezza Rice grew up to become the first black woman to hold the post of National Security Adviser to former President George W. Bush, and the first black women to serve as U.S. Secretary of State. Another black girl who lived in my neighborhood, named Sundra Escott-Russell grew up to become the first Black woman in the Alabama State Senate. A third black girl named Bessie Sears Estelle grew up to become the first Black women Birmingham City Councilor. In the same city where Civil Rights protesters from across the nation held hands and sang "We Shall Overcome", Ruben Studdard became the first black male winner of American Idol. I have something in common with one of the richest black man in Alabama, who now lives in Florida. I graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and Donald V. Watkins, Sr., graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law. Watkins' father (late Levi Watkins) served as a longtime president of Alabama State University (ASU), and I attended ASU as a graduate student. However, I have served inner city students as an educator since 1992 enriching the lives of thousands of young people, and Watkins is a black attorney, investor and entrepreneur whose net worth has been estimated as high as $1.5 billion. Success can often be measured by the lives you enrich or the riches you gain. Neither can be gained unless you choose to serve. |
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