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America has Officially Regressed on MLK Day
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This federal holiday is celebrated every third Monday in the month of January. Martin Luther King Jr. is the greatest activist, humanitarian, orator, thinker, and leader to come out of America. He was only 39 years old when he was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. I’ve visited the Lorraine Motel, and stood in Room 306, at the National Civil Rights Museum where King was assassinated while standing on the balcony by James Earl Ray. Thankfully, I was able to grow up in an America where schoolchildren were taught about America’s ugly history of racism — from the enslavement of Africans, to separate water fountains, to the Civil Rights Movement — and it was in elementary school that we took a field trip to Memphis, Tennessee to stand in the last place that King did. Of course, you didn’t have to step into Room 306 if you didn’t want to, but I did, and I knew I was standing in a room that once housed one of the greatest human beings to ever live.
Unfortunately, today’s children under Trump’s presidency and possibly beyond, won’t have the same opportunity. Teaching the truth about America’s racial history is now seen as “indoctrination” and “wokeness.” Today is also the inauguration of America’s 47th president, Donald Trump, for the second time. It’a shame that a person like Trump would be inaugurated on the same day set…
