His Voice, Clear.
Today is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. Now most everyone will be more content enjoying a day off from work or from school, for this is a part of the very thing I believe Dr. King would have had wanted the people of this nation to remember him for: to have a day for reflection and contemplation of our way of life. The other part is to consider how we are living with one another in this nation, and this is what I believe Dr. King would not approve were he able to see us on this day.
Most all of us find ourselves trapped both by routine and ingratiation. More content with Starbucks than stargazing, internets than interconnections and giving up than giving out. Our modernity has afforded even the poorest of people great manners of living that include luxuries once only possessed by the affluent. This inheritance has come to be slowly distributed over a short time. Connected to it, to those keen on not simply accepting endowments without questioning their origin or purpose, is a social ideal crafted from generations of philosophic debate. This principle is now widely accepted and easily overlooked by the majority of today’s generation: the practice desegregation.
This ideal has been worked for by generations of tolerant and optimistic folk and it is one that remains a common ground for rigorous debate between those in the lesser claiming its lunacy and those in the greater proclaiming its wisdom. I consider myself to be one whom agrees with Dr. King’s vision and “see not the color of a man’s skin but the color of his character”. This is not a new revolution but one I wish to proclaim more openly today given the gravity of day and those to come. As our nation props its collective feet upon the footstool of this holiday, consider the shoes worn by so many before us. Their street marches, protestations, stampings for justice and equality were carried upon those common shoes. They provided the footholds for today’s relaxation and comforts. Today remember the words of this man who did not look for notoriety for the sake of notoriety but for the sake of noteworthy beliefs that all whom are, have been and will be equal by the one commonality that matters: alive.
Most all of us find ourselves trapped both by routine and ingratiation. More content with Starbucks than stargazing, internets than interconnections and giving up than giving out. Our modernity has afforded even the poorest of people great manners of living that include luxuries once only possessed by the affluent. This inheritance has come to be slowly distributed over a short time. Connected to it, to those keen on not simply accepting endowments without questioning their origin or purpose, is a social ideal crafted from generations of philosophic debate. This principle is now widely accepted and easily overlooked by the majority of today’s generation: the practice desegregation.
This ideal has been worked for by generations of tolerant and optimistic folk and it is one that remains a common ground for rigorous debate between those in the lesser claiming its lunacy and those in the greater proclaiming its wisdom. I consider myself to be one whom agrees with Dr. King’s vision and “see not the color of a man’s skin but the color of his character”. This is not a new revolution but one I wish to proclaim more openly today given the gravity of day and those to come. As our nation props its collective feet upon the footstool of this holiday, consider the shoes worn by so many before us. Their street marches, protestations, stampings for justice and equality were carried upon those common shoes. They provided the footholds for today’s relaxation and comforts. Today remember the words of this man who did not look for notoriety for the sake of notoriety but for the sake of noteworthy beliefs that all whom are, have been and will be equal by the one commonality that matters: alive.
Patch Adam Perryman wrote this at 12:31
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