It is interesting how, in your habit of keeping to the story of the Dubois' life, you manage to touch, in the everyday life of the family, on really important issues such as these ones today that relate to the Protestant Reformation, which proclaimed individual religious freedom, and the egalitarian deed of Martin Luther King.
It is curious how Martin Luder, changed his surname to Lutero, (Luther in English) looking for a better meaning to his original name and how Michael King Jr. incorporates the English version of the name and surname to his image to become Martin Luther King and remain with this name in history.
It is also very interesting how the ideas of these thinkers have reached the childhood of the generation you allude to with the characters of Luoise and Vertran.
To some extent your text exemplifies the slow work of culture to incorporate very pure ideas into every human particularity.
What a happy coincidence that your birthday coincides with the man who asked everyone not to quench the thirst for justice "...by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred".
Segregation and self-segregation, will disappear, as in the dream of your birthday companion, @deeanndmathews .
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