GLASGOW, Ky. \u2013 At Glasgow\u2019s City Council meeting on Monday, a citizen shared with the board a custom rendition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech themed after the city of Glasgow and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have come to the City Hall of Glasgow to cash a check\u2026 a check that will give us, upon demand, the riches of equality and the security of justice,\u201d Barrett Wright says.<\/p>\n
Wright, a Glasgow High School alumni, says he shared because he\u2019s inspired by Dr. King, and believes he would be disappointed in our world today.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the dream still hasn\u2019t made it to fruition\u2026 and I believe if Martin Luther King was still living today, especially in our current political climate, he would be highly disappointed in how it seems like we seem to keep going backwards, with what\u2019s going on in our world,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Wright hopes citizens that came out to the meeting take that local connection away, while also retaining the core message of Dr. King\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people hear that speech and they hear their cities, their towns, their streets that they grew up in, parks that they play in\u2026 that speech becomes a little more personal to them. We\u2019re not from Mississippi, we\u2019re not from Georgia, right? We\u2019re from Kentucky\u2026 small town, Glasgow, Kentucky. We\u2019re more familiar with the surrounding counties,\u201d Wright says.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the winding hills of Robinson Court, let freedom ring from the backwoods of Sawdust Trail. Let freedom ring from Bunche Avenue all the way down to Back Street. Let freedom ring all the way across town to McGraw. Let freedom ring from Gorin Park to Twyman Park\u2026 but not only that, let freedom ring all the way to Park City. Let freedom ring all the way to Henrytown. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Monroe County. From every mountainside, let freedom ring,\u201d he said as part of the speech.<\/p>\n
In the end, that message would be the world coming together as one:<\/p>\n
\u201cBlack men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join in hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: \u2018Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last,’\u201d Wright says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLASGOW, Ky. \u2013 At Glasgow\u2019s City Council meeting on Monday, a citizen shared with the board a custom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57320,47998,57321,57322,57323,21807,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-121866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-barren-county","9":"tag-black-history-month","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-glasgow-city-council","12":"tag-i-have-a-dream","13":"tag-martin-luther-king-jr","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-headlines","16":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}