A Dream Comes True!

This photo-essay is dedicated to the anonymous bare practitioners featured in the vintage photographs illustrating this post entry. Living proof of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. enormous and magnificent dream of all living in harmony and peace – together!

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s most memorable address was delivered from the Lincoln Memorial along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this nation’s capital city. The speech he gave was appropriately named “I Have A Dream” and in it he referenced his dream of his children playing with White children – together as equals! This lesson inspired similar dreams into the minds of the crowd gathered to listen to his words.

It gave rise to the hope of this country someday experiencing interracial harmony. An ideal that we continue to seek – decades later.

“One reason for bare practitioners making the best of friends is that the absence of clothing (concealment) enables and empowers people to be honest and sincere since they lack the ability and the tools to disguise (clothing). What naked friends see – a natural body – is the reality of friendship: bare with nothing to hide.” ~ Roger Poladopoulos ~ January 1, 2022

“All of us must remember that as members of a distinct minority community and culture it is incumbent upon us to recognize that our pride in ourselves is based on our self-acceptance and our self-confidence of both what and we we are. Guilt and shame have no place in our lives. We need to let them go and move forward in in patience, tolerance and understanding for all. Love and respect are the keys that we need. Hate and ignorance are not!” ~ Roger Poladopoulos ~ June 16, 2023

On this, the second day of 2024 Black History Month, we salute the memory of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and remind us all to strive for the best that we can share together: harmony and peace for all!

The Adinkra symbol reminds us all that it is wise to bring our hope from the past into the present and continue to go forward with it into our future! The Akin tribe lives in what is now Ghana and the Ivory Coast in West Africa. Sankofa is the name of this particular symbol.

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, February 5, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “NBHAAD: Part I!” The subsequent post is planned for Wednesday, February 7, 2024, and is entitled: “NBHAAD: Part II!”