[HPFGU-OTChatter] Question X - Time Travel

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

SML posed the question:
> > ======================================
> > If you could Time Travel, and be
> > present at any major event in history,
> > which would you choose, and why?
> > ======================================


There are two times I'd like to visit, actually.  One is a very ancient time 
period; the other is an event I *just* missed by a generation.

I'd like to visit the ancient Near East in general, Egypt in particular.  
Can't decide if I want to see the pyramids built or witness the Exodus 
during the New Kingdom.  I'd also like to lay to rest the dispute of *who* 
the Egyptians were and *what* they looked like... one of history's nastiest 
debates IMHO.

And then I'd want to travel to 1964-1965 and do a smattering of things:
1)  Travel to Mississippi and participate in Freedom Summer 1964, in which 
college students helped register blacks in Mississippi to vote.
2)  Visit Hitsville, U.S.A. on West Grand Boulevard when Motown was topping 
the charts, American cars were "in", and Detroit was one of the most viable 
cities in the nation.
3)  Travel to New York and meet Malcolm X in the last months of his life, 
after his pilgrimage to Mecca.  He'd realized the farce the Nation of Islam 
was and was poised to become a great mainstream leader of African Americans. 
  (I was privileged to get to know his older brother Wilfred in the last 
years of his life... and he told me things about Louis Farrakhan that 
shocked the socks off me.  It's because of him that I didn't join the NoI 
during my teenage Africentric phase.)
4)  Top it all off by participating in the March on Washington and hearing 
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. give the "I Have a Dream" speech in person.

Ah.  One can dream, can't she?

--Ebony

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