I’m on my way back from a much-needed trip to the mountains, and I’m phoning this one in, folks. It’s MLK Day here in the United States, which is like getting a bonus day of Christmas Break right after being off for however long it is. It honestly feels a bit frivolous so soon after Christmas and New Year’s, but I’m sure it’s what the Reverend Doctor would have wanted. He was, after all, a notorious libertine.
What would MLK have become had he lived? My suspicion—a sad, jaded one—is that he would have gone the way of race hustlers since. I do not think he was a race hustler, but I think he was starting to trend in that direction with his view on poverty, and for a man who clearly took advantage of his power to engage in some truly heinous sexual escapades, it’s not a big leap to assume he’d go full on Creflo Dollar eventually—or, more likely, full on Al Sharpton. Yikes!
Regardless, his “dream” of a nation based on judgment of character and not skin color has not exactly come to fruition. I mean, it did for about thirty years. Ever heard of Lando Calrissian? It seems like we had a good run from roughly 1980 until about 2010. Now we’ve gone from trying to treat everyone as equals to privileging certain races over others. Isn’t that what all those 1960s radicals fought so hard against? Yet they’re the very ones celebrating the new apartheid.
Well, whatever. I’m just a honkey enjoying a weekend in the mountains.
With that, here is January 2020’s “MLK Day 2020“:
