We all know what today is right? It’s strange to me out West how this holiday isn’t a very big deal, but in the South it still is very much so. We live in America, so we’re pretty starved for public radicals. Even if everything imaginable has been done to neutrailze King’s message and thought, he somehow endures against it. Plenty of people argue that Dr. King was a tepid version of more radical elements of the civil Rights movement, but there is a much more dangerous idea in King’s Universalism-derived-from-a-particular-struggle than originally meets the eye. A brave fighter who was taken from us too soon, and proof that in our current systemic landscape we are as-yet not ready to accept our true leaders when they arrive at our door. One can bitch and moan about King’s legacy and its liberal appropriation, but the radical meaning of King persists, if dormant. It is we that must prepare to reckon with it. Happy Birthday.
