Picture Book Authors Note -- First Draft

          Racism has been a big part of this country's history, and there is still work to be done. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement have started this immense change in the US in the 60s, but there are still many racial problems left to solve. For example, the police department has been accused many times of extreme actions against black supposed "criminals", even killing some. It   also has a big majority of Caucasian cops. Although the Police Department is not the only problem, it is the most defined and blown up out of them.

          I strived to write this children's book, because i believe that young kids should learn that the fight fall equality for all isn't over. When Polly the Pigeon, from the story, goes to tell other not colorful birds her story, it represents the kids passing this belief on, throughout their lives. Learning this at a young age will stick with them for a lifetime. 

          Although, when I'm writing this it may be a small unpublished book, i hope it's little fire warms all the kids that hear it, and makes them pass on that little flame, until we might create a bigger more ambitious one. So then, African American kids in Selma, Alabama won't be afraid to become friends with white kids, and so they can go to the same school as them, live the desegregated lives they deserve. That is a future I hope for, and try to create for the next generation.