The world history department at Smyrna High School years ago featured an extremely good educator named Al Wilkerson. Mr. Wilkerson was a man that commanded respect and rightfully so. He had a saying that has stuck with me these many moons after I made it through his class (D was for diploma). He said “History doesn’t repeat itself…people repeat history”. After the historic 150th running of the Kentucky Derby it dawned on me that once again Al Wilkerson was right. .