Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, 'Wait'. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize and even kill with impunity your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society....when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness'--then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.
MLK - Letters from a Bringham Jail
I thought I'd put on some of his words that are less well-known, since this is a special MLK day, perhaps one so unique we won't ever see one like it again.
Most Americans are pretty pensive about what is happening now - even if we are not all of the same political ideas and sensibilities, which we are definitely not. So, this blog post is written by an American who is proud of his country's ability to shift its injustices to the degree that a few decades after blacks were publically pummeled in front of the whole nation for wanting to do something so simple as attend the same school as white children, we will swear in a black man as our President. Really a remarkable country that we come from.
Enjoy the MLK holiday.
