So today Barack Obama was sworn in for term # 2, and I want to agree with the talking heads on TV who say that country has come a long way. But then I see things that show me we haven’t come all that far.
Irrespective of today’s event, we’re still unchanged in so many respects.
It weighs.
I adopted a tradition from an attorney friend, of re-reading and sharing the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” on MLK day. I think it’s the single best education anyone can get on exactly who Dr. King was, and strived to be.
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/ArticlesGen/LetterBirmingham.html