Nobody asked but …
I am late for MLK’s birthday’s anniversary. It happened a week ago according to a record source I have seen. MLK’s real birthdate occurred on January 15, 1929. Every year we are reminded of the contributions that Martin Luther King, Jr. made to our society.
What I fear now is that we are doing it wrong. We gather in public places to observe this holiday, but we treat it as though this man was principally a patriot and his campaign was to elevate a noble characteristic among the citizens of the USA. His real hope was to correct a grievous set of errors made by the original founders and their hand-picked constituents. Let us never forget, that MLK wanted society reorganized to fit the formulation that the USA had been officially lying about for 200 years or more.
I suppose that the thing that galls me most is that politicians hi-jacked civil rights, and made the story about politicians, not the Golden Rule.
A few years ago someone said to me that Martin Luther King, Jr. was not a libertarian because he chose the state as his main tool for setting things right. Malarkey! There was likely no way that MLK could have achieved what he did while keeping the politicos at bay.
Reverend King never once asked for the state’s intervention. Ironically until the old white boys club saw the handwriting on the wall, “political glory,” they stonewalled MLK and his constituents at every turn. Then the worms turned. The politicos were responsible for the bandwagon, and the self-congratulations. Martin Luther King, Jr. was responsible for the conscience of America.
— Kilgore Forelle
