Today we were required to dress up and attend a paid, prepared speech by a woman named Peggy Wallace Kennedy. She is the daughter of former Alabama governor George Wallace. Her speech gave an account of some of the notable points in both her father's life and her own, and touched briefly on the work of Dr. King. Her tone over the course of her speech was like that of an orator at a funeral. I personally disliked her speech because I thought that it did little to celebrate Dr. King or address problems we are having now. Instead, she merely apologized for her white privilege, and turned herself into the victim rather than the african americans who still suffer discrimination to this day.
