“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail
Every year around Dr Martin Luther King ‘s holiday - the federal holiday that was established in 1987 through the blood, sweat and tears by those foot soldiers that have gone on before us. Those activists who gave everything in sacrifice for His day. We seem every year to have someone (and they are always White and a Man) who seem to think they know what Dr. King meant, believed or would believe today as he was making his speeches. These persons seem to think they know what Dr. King was believing as he traveled through Alabama looking for a hotel that would house “Colored Folk”, because at everyone turn there were signs reading, no dogs, no jews, no ni&&ers.
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