Today we celebrate, remember, and honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We are all Connected
Most of us have to deal with the duties of day-to-day life- grocery shopping, errands, laundry, etc. But many Americans deal with additional and often invisible burdens: racism and poverty. On a worldwide scale, we also constantly have the threat of war looming over us.
Dr. King gave his Honorary Doctorate Acceptance Speech 55 years ago. He addressed these three social ills that he worked so hard to eradicate: racism, poverty, and war. While these problems still plague society today, I believe all of us can make a difference.
In this famous speech, he said:
“The world will never rise to its full moral or political or even social maturity until racism is totally eradicated.”
Now eradicating racism seems like a tall order, and it is. We cannot do that single-handedly, but we can look within and work on our own internal biases and flaws.
Here at Lifting the Burden, we want to commemorate all that Dr. King did to improve the human condition. We also want to open this discussion about all the work there is left to do and what that looks like on an individual level.
We hope our services free you up from your necessary but brain-cluttering tasks so you can focus on being the brightest and best version of yourself.
We recognize that when one of us rises, all of us rise. Our hope is that we uplift you and that we can all take a collective pause today to remember each other’s humanity and how intricately we are all connected.
“We have got to come to see that the destiny of white and colored persons is tied together. In a real sense we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”