Dear Editor,
In honour of the great Martin Luther King Jr. I would like to share an extract from his autobiography.
Dr. King tells of growing up in Atlanta, Georgia:
“I remember another experience I used to have in Atlanta. I went to high school on the other side of town to the Booker T Washington High school. I had to get the bus in what was known as the Fourth Ward and ride over to the West side.
In those days, rigid patterns of segregation existed on those buses, so that Negroes had to sit in the back of buses. Whites were seated in the front, and often if whites didn’t get on the buses, those seats were reserved for whites only, so Negroes had to stand over empty seats. I would end up having to go to the back of that bus with my body, but every time I got on that bus I left my mind up on the front seat. And I said to myself, “One of these days, I’m going to put my body where my mind is”.
And he did.
As a student of Dr King, I believe that our bodies will always end up where our minds are.
Yours faithfully,
C Ram
