Dare to Celebrate 60 Days of America's Diversity|Chasing a Dream

I believe in America and her glorious mixture of people this month and every month. I believe we should be recognized for our contributions whether we are poor with a 'safety net' or not. I feel that we as Americans are all equal and held together by a common thread. Like a treasured beaded necklace of different colors held together on a string, we are held together by our necessities and our circumstances and our humanity. Every color helps to make the necklace beautiful. We can never be a totally separate entity! Americans of all colors are so integrated that if we hurt one, we hurt all. Just like that necklace of treasured beads, leave one out and the gap is seen. Break the chain and many of us are lost.”

Black History- is American History and should be celebrated on the daily and not just during one month. The shortest month of the year. Every day thousands leave their homeland to come to the "land of the free and the home of the brave" so they can begin their own American Dream. They still believe in the inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty.

"Give me your tired, your poor,

your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me;

I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

 --The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus was an American poet born July 22, 1849 in New York City. She is best known for writing "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883, which is now engraved on a bronze plaque on a wall in the base of the Statue of Liberty. The sonnet was solicited by William Maxwell Evarts as a donation to an auction, conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal. Her poem was placed on the Statue of Liberty in 1903.  


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