Dr. Martin Luther King Jr first experienced segregation when he was 6 years old. He was told by the parent of a white friend that he and that friend couldn’t play together anymore. It is no surprise, then, that in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, he said he dreamt of a nation where black and white children could hold hands. Where someone else might have used a traumatic experience to fuel the fire of hatred and division, Dr. King used it to unite people.

This past August, our nation paused to remember the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, the largest…