Dr. King's birthday is today, January 15th. If he had not been assassinated he would have been 93 years old today.
It's that time of the year when America's dominant population raises its head from its navel to wax poetic about the Rev. Dr. Martine Luther King, Jr.
They will reach back into the Rolodex (look it up) of their mind and thumb through until they come to the Ks. There they will pluck out the "MLK" card and rush out to recite the "I Have A Dream' speech to the nearest Black person. And how that person needs to heed it.
Yearly duty done, they will retunr to gazing at their navels again.
Oh well.
Look. If you have ever visted this blog during January, you know how I feel about the hijacking of that speech by people who are willfully ignorant about everything else happening to Black people in America at the hands of those who gleefully continue systemic racism against us.
Anytime something jumps off or is exposed in the news or in an article concerning the state of Black America you can bet dollors to doughnuts that certain someones, somewhere will point to thaat speech and say, "You people haven't gottten where you want to be because BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. You need to read Dr. King's speech!"
My response?
STOP IT! SHUT UP!
You need to go read "THE MOUNTAINTOP.' by him. And the article I've linked above. Then maybe. Maybe. we could talk.
OK?
Otherwise...Sit down!
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