Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

I still can't decide on how exactly I feel with the addition of
Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the removal of one of the President's
birthdays as an official US federal observed holiday. 
It's been celebrated for 25 years now.  Not that I am old but
I remember a time when it was not an official federal holiday.

 

What I can tell you is that this holiday is to celebrate the memory of
a man who tried his best, in a non-violent way, to get equal rights for
people of color. 

 

I don't know if it's the ability to immediately communicate news and
the violent occasions the news media likes to share with the public, or
the fact that this violence happened in the past and we just were not
made aware but it appears that violence is running rampant in today's
world.

 

I can only hope that, if Dr. King was still alive, he would have
carried his message of non-violence over the racial border and
addressed today's violence, providing a non-violent,
open communication type option.

 

Happy MLK Jr. Day. 

In honor of him, let's all try to be a bit;

• more understanding of those who are different from us
• more thoughtful to those who differ from us
• more patient with those who differ from us
• more open to others' views and opinions
• more friendly towards one another

 

I, too, have a dream. A dream that one day,
we Americans, will leave the issue of color in
the past, where it belongs, and move forward
as a common people of the United States and
call ourselves Americans, simply Americans.