Today is Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. As usual on his birthday, I am looking at my own life and the lives of those around me and comparing them to what I know of attitudes around this country and the world. Unfortunately, the recent comments by Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh really ramp up the belief that racism is alive and thriving at.
Someone argued today that Pat’s comment wasn’t race-based but religion-based. Yet, he specifically spoke about how they sold their souls to the devil to free themselves from the French, as they were chattel slaves. Race was the bottom line in that scenario. And if someone was going to sell their soul to the devil, that would certainly be a great time to do it, particularly since that entity was the opposite of the god the French, the ones who enslaved them, believed in and/or served. That’s solid logic.
Anyway, I am thinking of the legacies we leave behind and remembering that Martin Luther King Jr and Pat Robertson, in theory, served the same god. Isn’t that amazing?
That is all for today - but I am, as always, thankful for the life of MLK. Of course, there are many holidays for Black leaders that I celebrate alone, but I do love that at least one of the important figures in Black America is also “celebrated” in America.
I am off to listen to Nina’s “The King of Love is Dead” and think.
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