Today is Martin Luther King day. I fully appreciate the significance that his memory has on the black community and the black community should be proud.

Martin Luther King was an African-American and he spoke about many black issues, but most of all he was a civil rights leader. His teachings can be applied to any group of people, blacks, latinos, Arabs, Asians, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, disabled Americans and many more groups. The most basic factor is that regardless of what group one belongs to is that we are all people and members of the human race regardless of the group that a person belongs too.

Discrimination in any form against any human being is disgusting. Discrimination can also take many forms from outright denial of a job to a well disguised obstacle. The heart of bigotry is the urge to discriminate against a person that is different in any way. The difference can take the form of a difference in skin color such as the difference between black and white people or it can be a subtle difference in the way 2 people walk or it can be the perceived difference in a person‘s wealth.

People are not born bigots, it is a learned quality. The evil that we must fight is the evil of bigotry.