Monday, January 16, 2017
In Honor of King
It's good that Martin Luther King's birthday is a holiday. His presence in human history deserves to be commemorated. It's not just his life that we celebrate today, but the lives and sacrifices of all those who planned, marched, were beaten and jailed with him. When I think of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in my mind I lump it together with the quest for women's rights. And workers' rights. And LGBTQ rights. And religious rights. And fair healthcare rights. And basic human rights. For me, King is the embodiment of the quest for each individual to be free to be the most we can be, against the limitations placed on us by the norms of society, whatever they are in that time and place. This quest was certainly not new to twentieth century America, but has been ongoing throughout human history. Today we use King's likeness and words to celebrate the ongoing struggle for real freedom. That's an awful lot of pressure on the legacy of one man. We're all going to have to help.
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We all watched the movie Selma, this weekend. If you haven't seen it, it is definitely worth watching. I enjoyed it and it embodied the spirit of the MLK weekend.
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