Thoughts on another Holiday…
Yep, it’s MLK Day, and I’m sitting at the house looking out the back window at the naked trees and snow. Days off are nice. I guess.
I’m still the one holdout in the community that isn’t sure if I like MLK Day or not. Don’t get me wrong, he was a great man, did great things and put a topic on the table more than 50 years ago that we’re STILL discussing. I just wonder what he would think about being the focus of a “holiday”.
I remember when the campaign to have him honored was being fought in Washington. Our local representative was a friend of the family and would bounce thoughts off our father all the time, which meant he’d end up bouncing thoughts off us during dinner most nights. My voice was the lone dissension. I argued that he didn’t want to be lifted up this way and the entire idea of having a day off to celebrate Martin kinda went again everything he’d worked so hard for: you know, right to vote, right to have a decent job and wage, civil rights that worked for EVERYONE. I, of course, was poo poo’d and told to eat my spinach.
So, here I sit on MLK Day, staring out the window at the naked trees and snow. Read more…
