Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. I imagine this experience of Sidney Poitier's would have fit into that dream just fine:
"When I was 15 I was sent to live with my brother in Florida. One day I was really hungry. I saw a lady and decided I would ask her if I could do anything around her house for something to eat. She was a white woman. And this woman took my mother's son, whom she had never met before, and fed him like my mother would have done. I came to understand what an internal sense of humanity is. That was a major point in my life."
Big shoes to fill.
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