00:00My parents really downplayed what they were doing and the work and so forth and the importance of it.
00:06We figured he was just kind of like a normal guy that people went to jail just like a bus
00:11driver goes to drive a bus.
00:12Our father went to jail.
00:14Oh, come on. Are you serious?
00:15No, we really did.
00:17It's much more difficult being the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. as an adult than it was as a
00:22kid.
00:22You know, I had friends, one of the schools I went to was a private school here in Atlanta called
00:27the Galloway School.
00:27And many of the kids were saying, you're the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.
00:31And I'm like, and?
00:35Because I didn't understand all of that fully.
00:37And so the pressure of what all of that may have represented did not hit me.
00:43As I continued to mature and allow myself some time to really think about who my parents were and what
00:53they represent to the world
00:54and realized that I am who I am, I'm where I am because of the sacrifice that they made.
01:00I then realized that it's a privilege and an honor to be their daughter.
01:05Now, we certainly knew that daddy was special.
01:07Yes.
01:07And there was attention and focus on him.
01:09I remember the first time I went to an event where people were pulling on him and wanting to touch
01:14him.
01:14And I was like, why are these people touching my dad?
01:17On April 9th, 1968, mother said, remember, that he won't be able to talk with you.
01:24So right in the middle of that service, they played the speech from February 2nd, the drum major instinct.
01:30They played the portion where he talked about his funeral.
01:33And suddenly his voice is booming forth and I'm looking like, you know, looking for him.
01:41He was a jokester in our home.
01:43He was my first buddy.
01:45Taught me to swim when I was four.
01:47We'd romp in the house, play ball, go to the amusement park, ride all the dangerous, scary rides.
01:52And, you know, he was, he loved to laugh and we spent a lot of time laughing.
01:56In order for our world to ultimately get to what my father called the beloved community,
02:02we've got to keep reproducing those people who embrace nonviolence as a lifestyle.
