During the week between Christmas and New Years my husband and I spent a day being tourists in our own city and went to the Civil Rights museum here in Memphis. If you don’t know, the museum is housed in the motel where Martin Luther King was shot and killed. Anyway, the experience is fresh in my mind. The museum reminded me of events of the times, the hatred, and his perserverence in fighting for equality. I think this Martin Luther King day, I will watch some of the rememberence on TV, and hope that eventually we acheive full equality. When I walked through that museum, it made me really think about other civil rights that are still being denied to so many of our citizens, and how the same arguments are being used. It also brings up dissappointment that so many African Americans do not consider gay rights to be a civil right where I live, and they actually resent the comparison. So, on Monday, I will take a moment to hope for peace, it is the same as how I hope for peace for the middles east and the world.