MLK Day is Monday--Does anybody care?

[zanne]

A day of memory, and a Federal holiday occur on Monday, and I've never heard LESS about it. The birthday of the most important freedom fighter in a generation has a birthday and I'm reading absolutely nothing in the press about upcoming events honoring his memory. Even C-Span, which at times OVERemphasizes certain federal holidays, is having a weekend-long look back at Abraham Lincoln, but nothing about MLK. Am I the only one who finds this very disturbing or are civil rights so suddenly passe that they don't merit talking about?

[yewberry]

1. Huh. I'm not having the same experience at all.

I haven't really noticed media coverage (or lack thereof) of events, so I can't speak to that.

I'm looking at an overabundance of events here in Seattle. They started on Thursday and run through Tuesday. Theatres, churches, parks, schools & colleges--there are events all over the place here, far too many for anyone to attend them all.

[Left Is Write]

2. My son's preschool is marking the event...

on Tuesday we are taking a field trip to the Idaho Black History Museum.

[Ptah]

3. Listen: I have a dream.

hear it here:

http://www.hylandmadrid.com/en/books/en/books_dream.htm

[purr]

4. Nothing going on around here...

I dont remember anything special around here for it. Its a shame. I live in a mid-low upper predominately white neighborhood. In fact, I think I graduated with only 2 black kids in high school - and they're parents were highly wealthy.

I think they should be at least doing SOMETHING for it in the schools. I didnt see anything in my sons preschool calendar - its not even on the calendar.

[zanne]

6. Do you remember Memorial Day?

You couldn't watch cable news without seeing Bush lay a wreath somewhere, or some general giving a speech that had to shown in its' entirety. I'm glad that little kids is schools are having ceremonies, but I'm talking about the big, national picture here. Have you ever known C-Span to actually ignore the subject of a federal holiday? No, I know I'm not just being paranoid, because I can remember MLK Day being celebrated during Clinton's presidency. Now, it just seems like they want to forget about it altogether.

[crispini]

5. There are several local events in my area.

There is a day-long symposium on MLK and civil rights at the library, and I'm attending the "Dallas Dinner Table," which is an event discussing race which occurs here every year on this day.

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. I care

MLK is one of my heros. My daughter won a regional art contest the topic was legacy of MLK. She drew a group of children of all colors holding hands and standing atop the world. I am so proud.

"And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,

"Free at last, free at last.
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

[Metta]

8. The saint is dissed in his homeland.

A mirror of Republicans not caring about him or the plight of the less fortunate. That would be a Monday for them.

[Floogeldy]

9. Some stupid rednecks in my state . . .

. . . don't "celebrate" the holiday.

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