Everything and Anything

I’m sitting here watching CNN and Food Network, (Iron Chef is on!) and they keep talking about the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings speech. I keep thinking about how as a child in city schools I learned so much about that speech. I was once chosen to sing a wonderful rendition of Amazing Grace along with 4 other students from my elementary school in Ann Arbor. I remember thinking about all of the children around me and how they may not have been here if it hadn’t had been for that speech.

It is an amazing event both the speech and the fact that we now have a presidential nominee that is a black American. I say black because I was once told by a friend of mine that she was not African, she was a black American. She was not born in Africa, therefor she should not be called African. I agree, we need to break down barriers like that and just call all of us Americans.

The I have a dream speech for me has always meant something. As a child I felt I had much more in common with the black community then whites. I lived among them and was treated as one of them. Maybe I was a strange child and when I told one girl that I had to thank Martin Luther King for giving me my best friend. She cried and I smiled. At that time I truly believed that I would not have been the person I was if she had not been around.

So today as I sit here waiting to hear Obama speak I want to show how much respect I have for the people who fought, black and white and in between for rights for minorities and women. The world would be a much different place if you had not stood up and spoken out.

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I am trying to get my credit back togeather and it seems like it’s a huge up hill battle. I just logged onto my personal credit report on true credit and found that bills I had paid a few months ago still don’t show as paid. I just don’t understand what is so hard about getting on a computer and saying  yes the bill has been paid. I still owe a ton more money anyway but it would be nice to see if even the 300 I paid will do anything to my score.

The other day I added all of my debt up without my student loans I still owe about $6,000 one from a credit card where 2,000 is fee’s, yes just fees because they lied to me and told me the money would come off of my card, not out of my bank account. Lets just say I will never have an American Express again. They just lie to you and blame you. Yep so right now they are last on my list to get paid. I only owed them 700 or so that I pulled off te card. It’s up to over $3000. I just don’t get how they can do that.

Anyway I’m hopeing to get caught up soon. In one year I graduate and I will about about 50,000 in student loans to pay. I don’t think it will ever end.

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