THANK YOU, DR. KING

Dr. King believed that it was not enough to be allowed to vote. He wanted Black people to be able to participate in every aspect of society.

It was not long before women began to object to being excluded from some aspects of society.

I believe that Blacks are doing better at being accepted into blue collar jobs, and women are doing better at being accepted into white collar jobs. (Blue collar jobs are jobs where people work with their hands in fixing, building, or making something. White collar jobs are where people work with a telephone, computer and paper.)

Both minorities and women face a "glass ceiling", which means that minorities and women do not get the jobs at the top of an organization.

I was counting the women and minorities on the stage at the Golden Globes awards. There seems to have been an increase in women doing movie production. There were almost no minorities in any category.

We all now say that we believe in equal rights for all. We do not seem to realize that we can help give equal rights to all by insisting that the cast of a TV or movie production reflects real life. Real life has a variety of people. I am fairly certain that we will not change the fact that actors must be good looking. But we can cast good looking people who are men, women, Black, White, Brown, Asian, gay, disabled.

Media can set an example.