The San Diego Community College District supported students in using their creativity to collaborate in representation during Sunday’s annual MLK parade.
On the eve of the national holiday honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., hundreds of people marched Sunday in the 43rd annual MLK parade along the Embarcadero.
“It started out of a piece of square metal and we started bending and heating it getting a shape and that’s really exciting," said Yesenia Ortha, a welding student at the College of Continuing Education.She and twenty of her classmates created a 20-by-15-foot display with a metal tree of knowledge at the center. Rebar supported natural leaf branches. All of it honors the emphasis of education, peace, and unity in Dr. King's memory.
McKinley Fitzpatrick, 21, is studying kinesiology at Mesa College with plans to be a physical therapist. He said representation matters. “It’s something that I feel Black males might not want to do because it’s challenging coursework. It's a long road. So, just putting an image out there that Black males can do it.”
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