Mlk Celebration 2014

hello and welcome to New Day Federal Way I'm Kathy Arndt, executive assistant for Mayor Jim Farrell and I'll be your host as we bring you a fresh look on Federal Way we hope you'll come along as we highlight exciting events and activities happening right here in your community on January 17th through the 20 at the 2014 the city a Federal Way partnered with Todd Beamer high school to celebrate the life and legacy a doctor martin luther king junior the weekend featured an assembly at Todd Beamer high school and a food drive that provided over 6,000 pounds of food to the Federal Way multi-service center food bank and the Federal Way Senior Center food pantry a breakfast sponsored by the diversity Commission and Todd Beamer featured a keynote speech by doctor andre since start talking about change change we want to see a with the whole community things that have to be that things that we have to acknowledge are challenges not gone away from it's gonna cost us to make change tequila very very right man not too keen graduate high school when he was 15 years old to Keith get the ninth grade tolerated went to Morehouse College aged 18 my dad me his soaring is my dad stall my dad it is that had graduated high school and his older brothers or sisters graduate high school he found a whole gay da K for that he had I many ways his shot and his five is intentional its purposeful it was complicit he intended some of the things that he had two hundred goal for the purpose of the greater costly in goal in the in goal was change and as a culture as a community we talk about change in Federal Way and I just want to say that we're not gonna see it apart from style sooo no I'm always challenged by the fact that when we start talking about doctor came we we have people that's the whole over his theology has judeo-christian faith in so on and so forth and i think that the key to what we see that Turkey had been accomplished is to recognize that %uh is something that is demonstrated not just communique es Salaam they had happen america and president how long we have an opportunity to see a very diverse police force here in Federal Way how are we making progress with people of color a every strata a position up leadership we haven't arrived at change that we all desire to see in the doctor king gave his life for we have to have a tough position I had order for us to realize that it's gonna be a hot shuttle trusting get to where we say he wanna go up and that's how we are as a city that community we've done a lot of great things your hand go on where third polled fourteen years in office and counting by me in the morning she a collaborative collected after up civil organisations faith-based organizations those who handled those a little bit here and there was never existed educational process unificationists recognize the twenty thousand kids in eighty three different languages is is difficult but not impossible trust be used for the benefit the next generation excellence Federal Way Mayor Jim Farrell and Saint Francis Hospital president Tony mclean opened the celebration with welcoming remarks in college and you lost your I S poster on my wall doctor k: and I behind it with the words left freedom ring from every mountainside in DC i think im most of us are many others taken those iconic words that nation changing see words on that day in 1963 at the Lincoln monument shizzle into the heart's in mind all Americans those words from that speech will live forever but you see when I think a doctor came and really think about who the man was and the impact that he had he was 39 years old mistake and I think ima sacrificing his children his wife his congregation people that love him people independent on him now he is part of this iconic vision but it's important to understand the system real life sacrificed he made sacrifice yet Doctor degree yet an amazing profession here all these things to limp or BC doctor king live in the hearts and minds this up this nation forever when I think conduct came I know nothing up not the speech at the lincoln mine but I think about that let you know jail cell Birmingham it would be so much from 3G view at some point to go online and to go anytime resource material and read a letter from Birmingham jail cuz therein lies the stop therein lies when the trueheart up what he believed and watching a *** and when he died you know on a day like today when we come together we have Police Chief Police Officers got may only got me the people that make up our God but imagine what it was like context as ever is in a match in what it would be like it does instrument house those positions were not wrapped in a cocoon I love and support but I'm against people that's what doctor king and the movement encountered and they did so such grants and such overwhelming on patience and passivity because it what doctor king understood when he knew intrinsically is for the movement to succeed it had to be done in a Ghanaian non-violent manner that the only way to truly address the injustice that the dripping the this sweltering and howling injustice in a systematic injustice in which the fire hoses in that dogs in their 96 turned against its own people shock shop in in military by the american people and it wasn't until those visions and Birmingham became a public nationally that the american people still back it said this just this injustice will not stand and it was from that context the doctor came well wrote the following words: getting a little bit older saigon to use my my readers a doctor king said: injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere we are hot and simple network a mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny whatever best one directly affects all indirectly hear about him a chance human progress never roles in on wheels of inevitability it comes to the tireless efforts have men willing men and women willing to the coworkers with God and without the hard work time itself becomes a our above forces have social stagnation we must use time creatively in the knowledge but the time is always right to do the right thing doctor king realized that one day does show heroes would be recognized and he writes hero toward the end one day South on our that when these disinherited gone sat down at lunch counters name in reality CNN happen when it's best to the American dream thereby bring our nation back to those rate well democracy done d by the founding farmers in there formulation and the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in closing me know who knows euros or and we know that we owe them a great dad BC knowing is not now what we need to do moving forward is to recognize courage recognized injustice and come together when we see a and standing up to it when we see it today is a day on now that they are Martin opportunism and who sacrificed so much for this country and someone each and every one of us and today's celebrations like this thank you want me for speaker whose name is anne mcclain presidency Francis Hospital jointly answers presidency President hospital in federal races October 2008 prior to joining franciscan organization he was Vice President Operations at Virginia Mason health systems Seattle where provided oversight clinical service lines am Tory peer before that he was mistreated director what PDX Moskal musculoskeletal care enemy Virginia Mason users a presence up in sound American Heart Association morn is also america is she old coalition board answers on what state possible associations Public Policy Committee your master's degree from Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts and a master's degree in health administration rylsky immersing columns please joined and what mean mister Tony I want to thank Greg for their generous introduction great guy when minor correction its the Ohio State University and I gotta say I grip monies cause they never thought I'd be a bad guy but when she go to Columbus you can't go back you move but it just stays with you I'm I'm really at delighted to be here today that the move to days we're wine I'm when I think about doctor king and what he stood for I remember I'm the history of someone who is really brave mary farrell talked about the importance of being brave doctor king was brave the students at the lunch counter were brave and I every Martin Luther King Day I often wonder like why would he think where we are you know what would his checkup I'm do for us what grade we give us and I won't vote this statistic sign the progress we've made and the progress we still need to me as I think you already know them but when I think about doctor king the reason why I think he was fighting so hard wasn't just so that I would have the opportunity to talk to you today his speeches that movie the most talked-about what he wanted for his children in relationship to other children and what I was here when he talks about it is I want people to see my children I want people to see their humanity I don't simply want them to have access to opportunities I'm inherent in a prince was non-violence is that there's a human being on the other side have your fist and if you see that humanity you really can't the violin you wouldn't want to you and in fact you can and so my talents to you today and is a dare you to practice mobutu I D re did you that because the big picture change we have to make continues and we need seven billion people on this planet to make the small changes that have to happen just as fast there's this kid he's got there forward-looking year that's ninety five percent curable eleven-years-old 10 when he was diagnosed I'm E unfortunately his way with the wave the five percent you never get better so he's about five months away from dying and and he acknowledges how boring it is to be in the hospital one day a volunteer came around with a cart Fulham really cool video games I mean not just donated video games like that kind you would buy it for yourself if you get all the money in the world so he was blown away and he's playing with the video game he asked his nurse Kristen who did this she tells the story Mikey Mikey lost his battle with cancer love video games and his parents started a foundation so that are the kids in the hospital would have that opportunity this little boy his name is Kyle was so blown away by the kindness others the kindness that now he was the beneficiary have that at that time he read about these two girls from China who they can it made millions I'm making these bracelets and the saudi these kids and you could start your own business anyway how starters on bracelet making business in the hospital from his bat commandeered his family and his friends the line to relive it is between the doctors and the nurses and olive his family members and friends he raised thousands of dollars for my keys way he gave the money to his dad to write a check he wanted to pay it forward in the last few months of his life Kyle was is my nephew he died on Christmas Eve last month am ice I tell you I love this to somehow needs to that place in your heart that has become hardened perhaps cocooned by the need for us to be brave out there and to protect ourselves from all the bad things in the bad people you know mary farrell are there people here in the police department on the City Council we will join you in fighting for all the big changes so the everyone has access to good schools and good jobs and we need every single person to fight the individual fight begins there will be no justice I am if I walk in this store because I can but when I look into the eyes of the person on the other side of the door they're not willing to see me okay so I just ask you you probably interact with a hundred people every week and that some modest modest assumption am my dear you my dear you to look into their eyes and to see their humanity I dare you to ask one question that will force you to learn just a little sliver about who they are I promise you I promise you that it will change your life in a small way there will have a big impact over time K I wanna thank you for what you do every day in Federal Way in Tacoma I wanna thank you for being here it was a choice I'm and I just want to encourage you to I'm take back to GM division and make him exceedingly proud exceedingly proud up what we're choosing to do every single day arm I dare you to practice mobutu thank you the event commented with an inspiring keynote delivered by Aaron Jones director equity in achievement with Federal Way public schools and here see yeah and many okay the hmong way yeah on yeah and Haley I had he my hand me and yeah im and yeah I'm here and Lee have testimony all he had maybe the yeah and yeah me yeah and yeah how many and can't their me yeah way League my painting hi that okay and yeah K yeah and yeah day to live a lie that's how I'm her any yeah or she pay I and a half that okay me more minutes peace and many 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