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Student calls for seeing King’s dream 20/20 through a new lens Saron Legesse Zemedkun, president of the Black Student Union and student at Ferris High School, read an original essay, “The Dream Through a New Lens” during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Rally Jan. 20. She moved to Spokane from Ethiopia in East Africa when she was four years old. With this year being 2020, “the numerical expression for healthy vision,” she asked, “Through what lens do we see America?” Saron said King dreamed in 1963 of a day when former slaves and former slave owners would sit together in brotherhood, and people would be judged by character, not skin color. In the America he saw, blacks were denied equal rights, civil liberties, a seat on a bus, fair housing, employment opportunities and voting rights. continue reading... https://lnkd.in/gCEZSrJ #MLKJR #martinlutherking