IN HONOR OF DR. KING "I" WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE PICTURE OF THE YOUTH ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE OF THE PARADE

MAGAZINE IN THE SUNDAY PAPER SO IT WILLMAYBE FORCE A MEDIA FRENZY ABOUT THIS BLACK YOUTH NAMED RECORD-BREAKING RECEIVER-THE BEST HIGH SCHOOL PLAYER IN YEARS?...THE TITLE OF THIS ARTICLE IS "THE CHANCE TO BE GREAT"...Dorial Green-Beckham, an 18 year old wide receiver at Hillcrest High School in Springfield, Mo. has a smile almost as wide as his barn-broad sholders, but you won't see it when he's talking about his childhood. "Growing up, there weren't lot of choices", he says. Sometimes not even the choice of where to sleep at night. The third of six kids born of a struggling single mother, he bounced from motel rooms and vans to living in foster homes and with relatives, shuttering between his native St. louis area and Springfield. Things changed in 2006, when Hillcrest head coach John Beckham and his wife, Tracy, opened their home to Dorial and his younger brother Darnell...

this story gets more and more touching as it goes on...and, the moral of tHis story is it takes a whole village to raise a child, but the child must play a major and leading in his/ her own life...

I do hope you read this article an dpass it on. (SMILE)