What if...

What if we could wave a magic wand an change one day in history and if we did we would have to live with the results and accept what ever happened. Could we understand that by making one change in history would create an avalanche of perpetual changes that would alter life as we know it?

What if I fixed it so that Martin Luther King Jr. had never been assassinated. Would we be satisfied with what we created? Most important if we altered time would we still recognize a national holiday called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day that was established in1986. Would his I have a dream speech that impacted the world still have the same effect?

Would James Earl Ray ever be locked up? Or would we divert history for a day week or month before the inevitable finally happened. Or would because we change history we change the faith of mankind as we know it?

What if Loyd Jowers who had received $100,000 to arrange King's assassination never committed the act, that means the jury of six whites and six blacks who found Jowers guilty would no longer have been in court that day.

What if Martin was not awarded posthumously The Marcus Garvey Prize for Human Rights by the Jamaican Government in 1968.[8]

What if In 1971, King was not awarded posthumously the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for his Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam.[184]

What if in 1977, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was not awarded posthumously to King by Jimmy Carter.[185]

What if King and his wife were not awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.[186]

What if King was not assassinated would he still be the second most admired person in the 20th century, according to a Gallup poll.[187]

What if In 2000, King was not voted sixth in the Person of the Century poll by TIME.[188]

What if we changed history and King was not elected the third Greatest American of all time by the American public in a contest conducted by the Discovery Channel and AOL.[189]

What if Martin was still alive and the 730 cities in the United States still that named streets after King did not do it.[190]

What if King County, Washington did not rededicated its name in his honor in 1986,[191] and changed its logo to an image of his face in 2007.[192]

What if the city government center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, decided not to name its city hall in honor of King.[193]

What if we altered history and King was not awarded at least fifty honorary degrees from various colleges and universities in the United States and several foreign countries.[177][8]

What if we did all this to save man kind from loosing a great human being and the course of history was forever changed! Would it really be worth it if he was still alive but all the great honors that he received because of his death no longer existed? Would it really matter?

Then again what if I never wrote, what if?