Children celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. in speeches, essays, art
Paul “Benji” Johnston, 6, climbed onto a 2-foot-high stool, leaned into the microphone, took a deep breath and made his case.
“Why do people hurt other people? Is it because they get mad? Is it because they want something they can’t have?” said Paul, the first-place winner in the kindergarten-second-grade category of the speech contest for the 30th anniversary Martin Luther King Birthday
Celebration, held Sunday at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee.
For Paul, a student at Eastbrook Academy, it was all about dealing with naughty while staying nice.
King, he said, was a smart man.
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