The Sophisticate Chronicles

What a time it has been. These last 8 years have been nothing short of change. When collectively we came together as one and focused on what was not best for "I" but what was best for "US".  "US" meaning "We the people". (LoL!! I can hear my friend John right now starting one of his many rants with those particular words.) I watched a clip of local retired Minister/Civil Rights Activist Paul McDaniel last night on our local news station. He spoke about being  a young man and attending Morehouse College with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  While highlighting all the phenomenal things that Rev. McDaniel has done, the one thing that stuck out the most for me is when he stated that he wishes Dr. King could have seen all the work that he had done was not in vain. The main statement that struck a cord was "Now no one would look at a black child and laugh because they said they wanted to be President of the United States." I...