Monday, January 20, 2025

MLK Day in 2025

Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. He was a man who changed the course of history in so many ways for the better. A human being who used his gifts to try and help others. A person who critics like to point out had flaws (as we all do) and a civil rights icon who tried his hardest to make a dream of equality possible. It wasn't all Dr. King, of course, with many who worked with him at times overlooked (just consider Bayard Rustin for one example) and some others who strived for civil rights at times coming into conflict with King (Malcolm X is a big name). Still, without Martin Luther King Jr. we would not have a World that felt as much impact as he thankfully made.

Today was also the inauguration day for Donald Trump, as he returned to the office of the President of the United States. There is a twisted joke to that which would make me laugh if the irony weren't so bitter it made me choke. The more we fight for King's dream the more some push back against it, I suppose. As John Lewis (another major figure in civil rights) would have put it, we're going to have to make a lot of, "Good Trouble," these next four years.

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