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From YouTube: MLK, Jr The Dream Lives 2021
Description
A virtual program featuring local talents and a candid conversation with Ambassador Andrew Young commemorating the life and celebration of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
B
C
On
welcome
columbus,
georgia
today,
we'll
be
honoring.
Dr
martin
luther
king's
92nd
birthday
now
usually
we'd
be
all
be
able
to
meet
together,
but
this
year
we're
doing
something
different,
we're
bringing
the
program
virtually
to
you
and
I'll,
be
your
host
megan.
Oh
I'm
here
at
the
liberty,
theater
culture
center,
where
many
trailblazers
perform
like
my
rainey
as
well
as
duke
ellington,
cap,
calloway,
plus
many
other
greats,
and
today
we'll
be
highlighting
local
artists
and
musicians.
But
here's
something
really
really
cool.
D
D
We
thank
you
for
this
day
of
reflection
that
we
focus
on
a
great
hero
that
has
left
a
legacy
that
we
continue
to
celebrate
year
after
year
and
great
grab
great
wisdom
and
insight
from
to
take
into
the
future
father.
I
thank
you
in
this
moment
that
we
accept
the
charge
to
carry
the
ball
forward
to
carry
forward
with
fortitude
with
wisdom
and
insight
and
great
diligence.
D
I
thank
you,
father
for
the
leaders,
all
of
the
listeners
that
are
tuning
in
at
this
moment.
I
pray
father
god
that
those
things
that
have
been
stirring
within
them
would
come
to
the
forefront
and
carry
them
forward.
God
I
pray
for
our
clergy.
I
pray
that
you
will
give
them
great
strength
for
the
journey
that
lies
ahead.
D
Give
them
great
support
and
stability
within
their
membership
within
their
leadership
to
fulfill
the
vision
that
you've
given
them.
Thank
you
for
our
agencies
and
our
organizations
that
they
will
work
better
together
and
they
will
be
stronger
depending
on
one
another,
seeing
great
fruits
from
their
labor
lord.
I
thank
you
for
this
city
and
our
leadership.
D
God
give
them
all
the
tools
and
resources
that
they
need
in
order
to
lead
us
forward
into
uncharted
territory,
to
do
things
that
we
thought
were
impossible.
We
thank
you
for
the
unity
of
this
city.
We
thank
you
for
the
legacy
of
the
city
and
we
thank
you
for
being
in
the
midst
of
us
as
we
pray
and
it's
in
your
name,
jesus
mighty
name
that
we
pray
amen
at
this
moment.
Let's
welcome
my
mirror
mayor
skip
henderson.
E
Thank
you,
norman,
and
I
also
want
to
take
just
a
quick
minute
to
thank
you
for
your
excellent
leadership
as
chairman
of
the
mayor's
commission
on
unity,
diversity
and
prosperity.
You
know,
without
that
group's
efforts
and
and
constant
work
to
try
to
make
sure
that
equality
exists
for
all
of
the
residents
of
columbus.
E
We
are
really
excited
to
have
you
here
and
taking
a
little
time
out
of
your
day
to
help
us
celebrate
the
life
and
the
legacy
of
dr
martin
luther
king
jr.
You
know
we
started
the
dream
lives
celebration
years
ago.
It
started
under
previous
mayor
mayor
tomlinson.
My
administration
has
kept
it
going
and
our
goal
has
been
to
make
it
a
little
more
special,
a
little
more
different,
a
little
more
unique.
Each
year.
E
So
what
you're
gonna
see
today
is
gonna,
be
some
of
the
most
talented
people
you'll
find
anywhere,
and
you
don't
have
to
leave
columbus
to
find
them.
So
you'll
see
some
tremendous
artists
applying
their
trade
and
in
between
we're
going
to
have
sort
of
a
little
fireside
chat
with
one
of
the
civil
civil
rights
icons
and
a
very
good
close
friend
of
martin
luther
king
jr's,
andrew
young.
E
You
know
the
former
mayor
and
ambassador
mandy
andrew
young
has
been
such
a
a
calming
yet
consistently
steeled
voice
for
civil
rights
that
that
we
are
just
so
honored
that
he
has
agreed
to
to
participate
in
our
dream,
lives
celebration
so
again.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
being
with
us
today
and
thank
you
for
helping
us
continue
to
pursue
the
type
of
equality
and
the
type
of
community
we
want
to
see,
because
I
think
we
all
have
to
acknowledge
that
dr
king's
dream
has
not
yet
been
fulfilled.
E
F
I
drove
from
thomasville
up
to
columbus
and
just
to
be
a
part
of
the
history
that
I
thought
was
being
made
and
they
asked
me.
Would
I
be
willing
to
head
up
the
voter
registration
drive
in
thomas
and
grady
county
and
I
had
two
little
churches,
one
in
thomasville
and
one
in
beeston,
and
so
I
was
honored
to
be
asked.
F
But
I
didn't
think
there'd
be
any
difficulty,
but
once
we
got
the
announcement
out,
we
had
signs
up
on
posts
and
in
churches
and
all
over
town
and
john
wesley
dobbs
maynard
jackson's
grandfather
asked
me
to
run
the
voter
registration
drive
and
said
he
would
come
down
and
help
kick
it
off.
F
Damn
if
we
didn't
see
what
seemed
like
a
thousand
people
with
sheets
on
and
pointed
hats-
and
I
said
oh
lord-
we
got
trouble
because
that
was
right
outside
of
thomasville,
and
I
told
my
wife
that
I
didn't
want
to
run,
but
we
go
down
there
and
I
said
I
want
to
go
out
and
talk
to
him
and
see.
I
grew
up
in
new
orleans
and
when
I
was
four
years
old,
the
nazi
party
was
on
the
corner
of
my
house,
50
yards
from
my
house,
and
they
were
highland
hitler.
F
F
First
thing
I
thought
was
what
most
folk
would
think
back
then
my
wife
was
a
very
good
shot
and
I
said
I'm
going
out
and
talk
to
him,
but
I
want
you
to
sit
in
the
window
and
point
your
gun
at
whoever
I'm
shooting
I'm
talking
to,
and
she
said
I
can't
do
that.
I
said,
but
you
can
you're
you're
a
much
better
shot
than
me.
She
said
yeah,
but
I
can't
point
a
gun
at
a
human
being.
I
said.
A
F
F
What
and
I
talked
to
him
about
the
klan
on
the
outskirts
of
town
and
our
voter
registration
drive
starting
the
next
day
and
he
picked
up
the
phone
and
called
sunny
land
packing
company
and
flower
flowers
bakery
who's
still
there
and
they
told
they
announced
on
their
plant
microphones
that
we
don't
need
any
racial
troubles
and
they
called
the
sheriff
and
told
the
sheriff.
The
klan
has
a
right
to
have
their
march,
but
keep
it
on
the
courthouse
square.
F
F
The
clan
had
their
meeting
that
night,
they
marched
around
the
courthouse
square.
We
had
our
meeting
that
sunday
and
I'll
never
forget
what
john
wesley
dobbs
said,
and
he
talked
about
the
promise
king
case
and
the
democratic
white
primary,
but
he
said
two
things
that
were
very
important
right.
Then
he
said:
stick
with
this
blue-eyed
boy
but
watch
him
and
he
said
we're
not
trying
to
be
separatists,
we're
trying
to
learn
to
live
together
as
brothers
and
sisters,
but
the
experience
of
working
with
ordinary
people.
We
had
a
good
voter
registration
drive.
F
F
Most
people
who
disagree
with
us
are
actually
afraid
of
us,
and
that
was
true
in
south
georgia,
especially
in
albany
years
later,
when
I
came
there
with
martin
luther
king,
but
it
was
also
true
when
jimmy
carter
sent
me
to
south
africa
and
I
had
to
meet
with
well,
I
asked
to
see
who
were
the
worst
races
you
got,
who
who?
Who
are
the
ones
that
are
keeping
mandela
in
jail,
and
they
said?
Well,
you
don't
want
to
see
them,
they
wow
people.
F
The
biggest
question
he
had
was
his
own
fear
and
he
said
how
long
do
you
think
we'll
have
before
there's
a?
How
long
do
you
think
it'll
be
before
we
have
a
bloodbath,
and
I
said
I
don't
think
you'll
ever
have
a
bloodbath.
I
said
my
friends
want
to
have
a
multi-racial
democracy
they're
not
trying
to
kill
white
folk
and
he's
he.
He
said
I.
I
don't
believe
that.
F
F
In
fact,
I
was
in
thomasville
where
the
next
year
I
went
up
to
talladega
college
to
alpha
phi
alpha
religious
emphasis
week
program
and
they
invited
martin
luther
king
and
me
I
think
they
invited
him.
He
was
already
famous
on
cover
time
magazine.
I
was
a
little
country
preacher,
but
they
invited
us
both
and
I
said
well,
they
invited
him,
but
they
invited
me
as
a
backup
because
they
thought
something
might
come
up
and
he
wouldn't
come.
C
Here
we
are
at
the
home
of
the
mother
of
blues
herself,
my
rainey's
home,
and
you
know
one
thing:
that's
cool
about.
Her
is
she's
a
pioneer
in
her
own
way,
just
like
dr
martin
luther
king
jr.
We're
going
to
take
it
inside,
because
science
has
a
musical
tribute
with
a
couple
of
songs
from
marvin
gaye.
So
let's
go
ahead
and
go
inside
come.
B
B
G
B
G
B
B
B
B
G
B
B
B
B
H
B
B
B
B
B
H
B
C
Science
did
an
amazing
job.
Don't
you
agree
with
that?
Marvin
gaye
tribute
it's
something
about
a
marvin
gaye
tribute
his
songs,
just
really
hit
close
to
home
and
for
artists
to
be
able
to
use
their
creativity
to
express
their
emotions.
I
think
is
superb.
That's
exactly
what
gary
did
with
this
george
floyd
portrait
that
he
made.
You
can
feel
the
emotion
in
there
and
speaking
of
that.
That's
why
we're
here
at
gary
pound
studios
and
we're
about
to
take
it
to
the
next
fireside
chat
with
ambassador
andrew
young.
F
When
dr
king
was
in
jail,
I
had
to
go
into
the
jail
to
visit
him.
That
was
a
campaign
that
they
said
we
lost.
Well,
we
didn't
get
a
national
civil
rights
bill
out
of
it,
but
we
didn't
because
the
kennedys
were
new
and
they
didn't
really
understand
the
south
like
say
lyndon
johnson
did
later
on,
but.
F
Going
in
and
out
of
that
jail,
I
realized
that.
Well,
it
was
a
big
sergeant
behind
the
desk
that
was
about.
F
He
said
there's
a
little
out
here
that
wants
to
see
them
big
out
back
there.
What
do
I
do
see
and
somebody
said,
send
him
back
so
I
went
back
and
I
told
dr
king
what
he
said
he
said.
Look.
I
don't
care
what
he
calls
you
you
got
to
get
in
here
and
talk
to
me
every
day
and
sometimes
twice
a
day.
Ralph
said:
why
didn't
you
jump
off
over
the
desk
and
slap
him?
F
F
I
remember
what
my
daddy
told
me
as
far
back
as
kindergarten
say
about
not
being
afraid
and
being
friendly,
and
I
looked
at
his
name
and
so
this
going
back,
I
said,
thank
you
very
much
sergeant
hamilton
and
it
caught
him
off
guard,
and
he
said
I
said.
Oh,
I
said
thank
you
very
much
I'll
be
back
tomorrow.
F
Maybe
we
can
have
a
little
time
to
talk
a
little
bit
so
yeah
see
you
tomorrow.
Well,
when
I
went
back
in
the
morning
the
next
day
I
called
in
my
name
and
he
lifted
his
head
and
waved
and
spoke,
and
I
stopped
him-
and
I
said
as
big
as
you
are:
you
had
to
play
football
somewhere
and
he
said
yeah.
F
I
was
a
tackle
down
at
valdosta
state,
and
so
I
stayed
there
and
I
talked
to
him
about
football,
see
for
about
five
minutes
and
but
in
just
those
five
minutes
he
went
from
looking
at
me
as
racial
to
looking
at
me
as
somebody
who
shared
a
common
interest
in
football
say
well
long
story
short
when
I
was
at
the
united
nations.
F
He
said,
you've
come
a
long
way
and
he
said
you
forgot
me
that
haven't
you
I
said:
yeah
wait
a
minute
we
meet,
he
said
to
all
been
in
jail
now
he
trimmed
down
from
300
pounds
to
200
pounds
and
had
on
a
green
augusta
jacket
with
white
flannel,
pants
and
white
buckskin
shoes.
Looking
like
a
new
england
country
club
pimp
and
I
said,
unite
sergeant
hamilton
from
the
albany
jail
and
he
said
yeah
as
soon
as
you
all
left.
F
F
In
my
little
country
church,
you
know
a
man
would
have
a
bad
day
at
the
bakery
and
he'd
come
home
and
he'd
be
fussing
with
his
wife
about
not
having
dinner,
ready
and
she'd
pick
on
the
you
know,
one
of
the
oldest
kids
daughter
and
tell
her
to
hurry
up
and
go
ahead.
Your
dad
is
ready
to
go
ahead
and
set
the
table.
F
That's
sort
of
what
I
did
when
I
went
to
see
the
mayor
see
back
in
1954
and
when
I
talked
made
the
police
death
sergeant
talked
to
me,
I
mean
I,
I
found
something
he
was
interested
in.
I
didn't
think
of
him
as
white
or
racist.
F
F
Anything
that
we
do,
we
have
to
do
realizing
that
god
has
the
whole
world
in
his
hands
and
it's
not
our
world
and
we
might
want
it
to
go
backwards,
but
the
world
is
only
spinning
the
way
the
lord
wants
it
to
spin
and
it's
going
to
be
going
around
the
sun
that
way
until
eternity
freedom
is
a
constant
struggle
and
people
say
well:
when
are
you
going
to
retire
and
you
can't
retire
from
voter
registration,
because
if
you
retire
from
voter
registration,
while
you're
old
you
let
your
social
security
is
liable
to
get
cut
your
health
care's
liable
to
get
cut?
I
I
I
I
I
B
I
I
I
I
I
B
B
C
J
J
J
J
J
J
C
C
F
One
of
the
other
things
that
I
did
that
was
also
near
columbus,
that
same
summer,
I
went
to
warm
springs
and
when
I
went
to
warm
springs
where
president
roosevelt
used
to
go
for
his
polio
in
those
days,
people
were
in
iron
lungs
all
over
there
and
they
had
to
be
in
an
iron
lung
to
breathe,
because
polios
took
their
breath
almost
like
now,
it's
ventilators,
they
do
the
same
thing.
They
help
you
breathe,
but.
F
It
took
us
almost
10
years
to
get
a
polio
vaccine
and
then
polio
changed
and
we
had
to
get
a
new
vaccine,
but
I
started
out
getting
shot
in
my
arm
for
polio.
I
don't
know
at
least
50
years
ago
and
then
10
years
later
there
was
a
new
vaccine
which
they
didn't
have
to
stick
you.
F
They
put
a
drop
of
this
vaccine
on
a
sugar
cube
and-
and
that
was
another
way
of
giving
you
the
same
vaccine
and
every
year
I
remember
to
get
a
flu
shot
and
now
they
have
pneumonia
shots.
I
got
that
too,
and.
F
F
and
we'll
be
celebrating
dr
king's
92nd
birthday,
and
he
used
to
say
that
freedom
is
a
constant
struggle
and
as
long
as
you
live,
there
will
be
some
freedoms
that
we
will
have
to
struggle
for,
for
ourselves
or
for
others,
and
the
world
can
continue
half
slave
and
have
free
and
slavery
doesn't
just
mean
with
chains
on
your
legs
or
being
in
jail.
F
F
F
He
didn't
have
a
phd,
but
he
knew
the
city
better
than
any
phd.
You
could
you
couldn't
find
that
in
the
book
and
he
helped
us
in
the
problems
of
the
missing
murder,
children
when
we
had
the
olympics,
we
couldn't
just
be
an
atlanta
olympics,
the
olympics
had
to
take
all
of
metropolitan
atlanta
and
it
had
to
involve
people
in
eight
or
ten
counties
and
the
fact
that
he
was
white
and
grown
up
in
this
neighborhood
and
knew
all
these
chiefs
around
helped.
Us
have
good
law
enforcement,
but
we
also
realized
that.
F
F
K
L
Listen,
I
want
the
world
to
know
their
names,
trayvon,
martin,
mike
brown,
eragon
and
philando
castile.
I
want
the
world
to
know
their
names,
brianna,
taylor,
sandra
bland,
ahmad,
aubry
george
floyd
and
countless
others
is
why
I
say
that
black
lives
matter
understand
the
statement
and
if
anybody
thinks
it's
racist,
your
attention's
vacant
so
mentally
bankrupt
that
you
couldn't
pay
it.
L
If
you
wanted
to
these
my
eyes
my
point
of
view
my
feet,
they
run
with
mine
and
I
don't
know
him,
but
I'm
heartbroken,
I'm
just
a
white
boy
that
was
raised
to
keep
his
heart
open.
We
all
made
in
his
image.
Our
value
is
intrinsic
respect.
Every
person
is
our
mission.
Why
can't
people
get
it
see?
I'm
tired
of
these
hashtags
replacing
lies.
People
get
killed
in
the
street
and
killers
have
no
disguise,
but
we
gotta
stop
and
speak
on
this
disaster.
I
promise
I'll
never
stop
until
black
lives
matter.
Let's.
K
K
K
L
L
Is
listen?
Look
now.
Let
me
say
something
that
too
many
white
people
have
said
see:
white,
religious,
real
racism,
ain't
damn
they
see
a
black
male
wanna
bust
upside
their
hair,
but
they
see
a
black
queen
and
rather
get
in
between
the
legs.
I
know
feels
hard
to
swallow
when
the
truth
is
open,
but
your
silence
is
louder
than
any
word
smoking.
You
say:
you're,
quiet
against
injustice,
but
never
public
cause.
You
wanna
keep
money.
C
N
M
N
N
C
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
P
O
O
B
E
Well,
we
hope
you
enjoyed
the
dream,
live
celebration,
and-
and
I
want
to
thank
you
so
much
for
spending
part
of
your
day
with
us,
as
we
continue
to
celebrate
the
things
that
make
us
alike
as
opposed
to
identifying
the
things
that
make
us
a
little
bit
unique
and
a
little
bit
different.
Obviously
we
want
to
thank
andrew
young
for
being
such
a
huge,
huge
part
of
today's
celebration
and
there's
so
many
people
to
thank.
E
You
saw
the
incredible
acts
we
had,
but
there's
a
lot
of
folks
behind
the
scenes
we
we
want
to
thank
the
mayor's
commission
on
unity,
diversity
and
prosperity.
We
want
to
thank
the
committee
that
pulled
all
of
this
together
and
we
want
to
thank
the
technical
folks
that
actually
made
some
of
us
look
a
lot
better
than
we
are
so
we're
going
to
leave
you
today
with
again
with
our
thanks
for
being
here,
but
also
with
a
video
that
kind
of
shows
you
just
what
an
incredible
community
we
live
in.