Martin Luther King Day

by on January 18, 2016 at 12:37 am
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Well here we are at another Martin Luther King Day so let’s honor the man with a passage from his address to the Golden Anniversary Conference of the National Urban League, 6 September 1960, New York, N.Y: The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes speech.

When I’m reading this I find myself lingering on the word concomitant, the newest word in my vocabulary.

con·com·i·tant
k?n?kämit?nt/
formal
adjective
  1. 1.
    naturally accompanying or associated.
    “she loved travel, with all its concomitant worries”
    synonyms: attendant, accompanying, associated, related, connected; More
noun
  1. 1.
    a phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something.
    “some of us look on pain and illness as concomitants of the stresses of living”
     Learn something new every day.
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