MLK Holiday celebration

How are you celebrating the King Holiday?

 

Watching Carnage and doing laundry.

 

Working.

 

Staying indoors, as its 15 degrees outside. That's the trouble with this holiday. There are no activities linked to it. It's not tied into some seasonal idea (Christmas-solstice, Easter-start of spring, Labor Day-end of summer, etc.). It really is a birthday, random in nature.

 

Ditto.

 

US WHITE WOMEN ARE SO PUT UPON!

 

It's funny, maybe it's just that it is the only holiday that was created in my lifetime and I followed the efforts to make it happen, but I've always felt guilty if I didn't do something on occasion of the MLK Day, whether attending a service, watching a particular movie - Eyes on the Prize is always a good option - or just doing something to better my community.
The holiday is unique because it honors a person who was never elected to an office, never had any official power, yet showed how much impact one person can have on the world.
On a trip through the South a few years back I visited many of the sites key in the Civil Rights Movement. I'd always thought of that time as "bad history" and era to be looked at with regret, it wasn't until I talked with a woman in Birmingham near the 16th St. Baptist Church that was bombed when she told me she always thought it was "good history" because it showed what people could do when they worked together and were willing to make sacrifices for what they believed in.

 

The day means a lot to many different people. Some use it as a day of remembrance, others use it as a day of service, some use it as a day of peace. Many along here are too young to recall what he did for Americans, not just African Americans. He spoke about having a country free of color lines and stigmas. It was a Utopian thought that still has meaning to many.

 

Asking Bono to write a chronologically incorrect song about me.

 

Great song musically, terrible song lyrically. (As I recall, that's Bono's assessment as well.)

And to answer the bigger question... working. Like always.

 

Day of peace? Are you saying that on the other days they practice violence?

 

You figure it out and get back to me.