First, two newsletters to catch up on. The latest healthcare newsletter, Why Is Cash Low?, is now available. And the latest business newsletter, which went out last week, called New Employees And Their Learning Curves, is also available.

It's Black History Month, and I feel like I'm way behind the times. I've been so preoccupied with work and the primary season that it didn't really hit me until yesterday, when I came upon a post on another blog talking about a black wrestler that helped integrate the south in his own way.

What's odd is that, for some reason, I've been feeling nostalgic in a weird way since the King Holiday, which of course is in January. It was 45 years since his speech in Washington D.C., and 30 years since his final speech. It made me think of things that I remember that my parents told me, things that happened to the family while I was a baby and very young kid that they had to consider that don't have to be considered as much in today's world.

For instance, I remember them telling me how, when driving through certain states, they used to pull into rest areas or off highways so Dad could get some rest in the car because they weren't allowed to go into the hotels, and often couldn't get something to eat until they got to their destination; the terrible days of segregation. My mother said I was a talkative child, and she was always worried that someone was going to say something bad to me or her when we were living in Texas because I'd talk to anyone; she got lucky on that count. I heard the story of how my dad risked his life one time by not responding to being called "boy" by a town deputy while he was in his uniform, his own pistol in plain sight as he was a MP (military police) at the time, knowing that his family would be in dire straits if anything had happened to him.

And now, as I referenced in my last post, there's a credible black man running for president of the United States, and the vote that Martin Luther King Jr and many others fought for, which hasn't been used to the degree that it should have been, may end up being the difference on whether he gets the eventual democratic nomination, and eventual presidency. How far we've come, and yet, how far we still have to go.

So, here's to Black History Month; may you help change more minds this year than at any other time in history; finally, you've got a current platform to stand on.