Jan 152018
It was a pleasure to work with Dr. King on Vietnam Summer. Of all the people I have met in my life, he stands head and shoulders above the rest. This is last year’s article. It is even more applicable today.
Normally, I would wish you a Happy Martin Luther King Day, but my conscience will not allow it at a time when Donald Trump and the Republican Party have trashed so much of what he accomplished, and today, Dr. King would grieve. But he would also…
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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Well, we can wish each other a good MLK Day. That doesn’t have to mean happy (when tears are more appropriate especially.) It can mean meditative, or productive, or even peaceful – as peaceful as one can be when there is no peace, but if a day of peace helps us with strength to go on, that would be a good day.
The Internet is full of articles showing how, in our human fashion, we have managed to honor the man while missing the message (like Christmas is any different?) I don’t mean to trivialize the civil rights accomplishments which are a huge part of his legacy – but he also opposed the Vietnam War before that was cool, and opposed capitalism before THAT was cool, and opposed economic inequality, before opposing economic equality was cool. We owe him so much.
“He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good, they die young. You just look around, and he’s gone.”
Thanks! See today’s Open Thread.
“… we have managed to honor the man while missing the message …”
So true JD!
Amen! Amen! to you, for your honoring this man who became a spokesperson and leader in advancing civil rights and non-violence to all.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that would establish a nationally observed holiday in remembrance of King. He is the only non-president to have received such an honor – the only other American to have a holiday commemorated in his name is George Washington. The holiday was first celebrated in 1986 on the third Monday in January, close to MLK’s birthday on January 15th. He is also the only non-president with a memorial, located on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Thank you for the video, I’m listening as I type.
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/10-facts-you-should-know-about-martin-luther-king-jr/
The Reverend Dr. King would doubtless be disappointed that we have not made greater strides towards equality, that racism is still alive and well – and that this country is headed in entirely the wrong direction. Too many people, and sadly too many African-Americans, have forgotten his message even though they can parrot his words.
MLK could have been the leader we all needed, but he went the way of the Kennedys, because of the very things he was fighting against, including, at the end, the dirty war that we were lied into in that generation. So sad…on many fronts
Have a good and thoughtful MLK day.
Remember all the good that wonderful man has tried to accomplish, did accomplish in fact, and then also remember what has been taken away from his legacy and by whom. And the epitome of destruction of his dreams sits in the Oval Office right now and goes by the name of racist Drumpf.
There’s only one thing for it: get rid of that abomination in the White House and all that enabled him, and resurrect Dr. Martin Luther King’s dreams.
Thanks, sticky hugs, and Amen to all!
A great man gone too soon. But the Dream lives on as long as there are people like us who live on.