As we start today, Martin Luther King Day, let's all reflect on the ideas that have gotten us to this moment in our History. Let us all work together to help our communities to overcome the problems we are facing. Real Estate is more than "making a buck" it's the backbone of our American lives. The great American land rush, refugees from war torn Europe, and Immigrants, all sacrificing to make a better life in America.
"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential." -Barack Obama
My earliest memories of life outside my middle class cul-de-sac life were of Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement in the South, and the National Guard trucks on the LA Freeway going to the Watts Riots. I remember in elementary school watching Kennedy, and the assignation, and I remember stories of the Holocaust. These were the memories I had of a life outside me. And as it turns out, all of them were big, defining moments in our History.
Today is not only Martin Luther King Day, it is the day that parents across the United States can indeed tell their children that you can grow up to be anything you want and you can indeed realize the American Dream.
Tomorrow we will have a new President. Tomorrow we will, in many peoples minds end an era of Oppression, and in the minds of most start our country on a healing process. Healing past mistakes, and healing our struggling economy. Tomorrow will be the start of a recovery where all men are created equal in the need and responsibility to help our neighbor, to help our communities, and to help ourselves overcome this economic crisit we are in.
Tomorrow we will need to come together, and as a person, a community member, a Professional, we need to come together and help each other out of this mess. I will hold your hand if you will hold mine. I will help you up, if you will help me. "I have a Dream" also, and my dream is that we as a people will be able to once again have a home to live in, and a job to pay for it.
My Dream is nothing as big as the Civil Rights Movement, but it is something that is affecting all of us equally. My Dream is that we will come out of this economic crisis sooner than later, and that no one else has to lose their home, or their jobs, and that people that need medical help will get it. My Dream is that we as a people will help each other out of this mess without judgment, without greed, but with the sense that we are indeed all entitled to the American Dream.
By:Kathy McGraw Broker CELLing Realty- Real Estate in Riverside County, CA
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Kathy, what a beautiful blog, I share your dream and your memories. Martin Luther King was my childhood hero and I feel lucky that has in some respects defined my existence. I have always tried to live by the credo, "What would Martin have done?" when evaluating moral dilemmas. I am so excited about tomorrow and hope we all make it the beginning of a new era where your dream will come true.