More than once, he also seemed to acknowledge that he was the only white student among the competition’s finalists. “But I believe like Dr. King.”It was a phrase he would refer back to several other times in his speech. “I didn’t expect first place,” Wesley told the Dallas Morning News. “He’s always had that personality, very similar to his dad,” Megan Stoker told the newspaper. King said, ‘I have a dream that one day, right here in Alabama, little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers,’ ” Tchanori said.

Source: Washington Post January 13, 2018 18:31 UTC