Today’s the day the we celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and I’m damn glad we do. <\/p>\n
When we talk about race today, we talk about the scandal at the King\/Drew medical center, or about the 19th Century racial politics of Al Sharpton. It’s an annoyance to many and should be an embarrassment to some.<\/p>\n
But in my lifetime<\/b>, young black solders in uniform were denied accommodations and meals. In my lifetime<\/b>, black families – who had worked, lived and owned land in communities for two generations, were explicitly denied the right to vote.<\/p>\n
In my lifetime<\/b> civil rights workers – whose crime was to seek the same rights for people with black skin – were brutally murdered, with the complicity of the white police who were sworn to protect them.<\/p>\n
To understand where we really are, and where we are going, it’s important to have some sense of where we came from.<\/p>\n
Rev. King may not have been a perfect man – no one is.<\/p>\n
But he and his movement are models we should not forget. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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