 It is undeniable that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood up and spoke on behalf of equality for everyone. On January 20th, community members and officials gathered on Hambly Boulevard in Pikeville as they participated in a unity march. This peaceful assembly is to honor the passing of Gene Lane, who created the march and the legacy that Dr. King left behind. We want to honor Dr. Martin Luther King of his legacy that he left in the pathway that he started for us, and so we wanted to come together for unity and support of Dr. Martin Luther King and honoring him for what he has done today. Doing things together we can accomplish anything and you will not fall, and we would love to have you be a part of our unity march next year. I want to thank everybody who came out every year it seems to be growing, and so I'm thankful for our partnership with you Pike, our partnership with the city, and also with our city police who led us in the march this year. We are here to celebrate Martin Luther King, the unity, the solidarity of his speech, of what he stood for. It all started my brother, Pastor Gene Lane, he worked for the State Highway Department. He started this, I want to say seven years ago, and he wanted the town, the community to come together the way he remembered us always being. We grew up here in Pikeville, my family. My father was born here, my grandfather, my grandmothers, both sides of my family are from Pikeville. We've always had unity in Pikeville, we never had any division. We were always one big happy community, and Gene wanted to keep that, and in keeping that his dream was for us to have a march, and it's not just for the black community as some people think, but it's for the whole community to come together as one. So that's what we're here today, we're continuing not only Dr. King's dream, but the legacy of Pastor Gene Lane. I have a dream, that's a good question, it means more than what I'm living today. It means more than what I think is going to happen, but it's that dream of reality, what can become of my future. I have great nephews now that are coming up. So my dream, for them as I look at the news and I hear of things that's outside of our little community that happens, my dream is that it never affects their lives, that when they stand up, when they get as old as I am, that they can still stand in unity with their community, no matter where they go. Not just in Pikeville, but when they venture out. I want my dream for them to be of a better United States, a better world, a better life for them, no matter where they are. Not just the blacks, believe what they believe, Hispanic, whatever race, whatever creed you come from, no matter what property of life you come from. You have the poor, which the Bible says will always be with us. We just had a discussion this morning with my great-nephew, and he's like, well I have the rights, we all have that right. Everyone has a right, black, white, young, female, males. We all have the same rights to be free. We all have that right to a better life, to injustice. We all have that right. And we need to continue to stand up. Absolutely, absolutely. Everyone has a voice and we all need to speak. It's important to me, because my grandfather started this, he was a big part of the community, he was a big part of all of our lives, I'm just here trying to keep it alive, show him that I'm still going to keep his dream alive, and hopefully take in and see what all they're doing that way when they go on, I can keep this going. It feels great, they always say, you don't know who's on your side if something happens. My grandfather died, the whole community just came together and just took us all in. It's been amazing, it's been unreal, and I'm just going to continue to live on his memory and keep everybody going, and that way I can pass it on to my kids and keep this tradition going and never let it die. I have a dream, it means to me, that not only when I grow up, but when my kids and their kids grow up, that more stuff like this can happen. We can come, be equal, everybody can sit at the same table, we don't have these fights and these outbreaks going on, you know, just everybody be one loving family. So I'm honored and I'm humbled that we come together in unity for this one special day to honor Dr. King. But I thank the Pikeville, the community of Pikeville, the city of Pikeville for letting us have this and being behind us supporting us. Thank you. You know, it starts here, it starts here, you know, everybody, we get this out and they see what we're doing, it's going to continue to reach and it's going to be big. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.