Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929
If he were living he would have celebrated his 80th birthday just 5 days before America's first African American President took the oath of office.
What a perfect 80th birthday present this would have been. Were he alive, I would throw 80th Birthday Confetti in his honor.
As President Obama said in his inaugural speech, it was long ago that his African born father might not have been served in a restaurant in the very city where he now stands to serve the United States.
Today is historic for so many reasons, not least of which is the realization of Dr. Martin Luther Kings "I have a Dream" Speech.
How far we have come.
Happy 80th Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr.
