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I was born before every one was mainstreamed
so I went to a special school
even though my family lived right next door
to the neighborhood school.
I remember coming home crying to my Mom
after the kids from the school yard
would call me “retarded” and “idiot.”
It made me feel like an outsider.
They finally let me in to junior high.
My first day was one of the best in my life.
People would still call me names,
but most of us made friends.
It was great!
I went on to high school and college
and the voices of my youth faded into the past
I became a husband and parent, twice.
And life was great!
I remember walking towards the middle school
when the students began to giggle and stare at me,
they actually walked to the other side of the street
to avoid me.
It made me feel like an outsider all over again.
I walked my son to school
when these girls bumped into me.
They looked up at me, and giggled and then ran away.
“Oh my God, you touched him...” and then ran away.
Again, I felt like an outsider – the feeling had returned.
[voice of Martin Luther King] “I have a dream.”
[voice of Martin Luther King] “that this nation will rise up”
[voice of Martin Luther King] “a live out the true meaning of its creed.”
[voice of Martin Luther King] “We hold these truths to be self evident”
[voice of Martin Luther King] “that all man are created equal.”
Martin Luther King said that “I have a dream.”
I have a dream too.
A dream that we can all work together
the beauty within all of us.