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Chaos or Community?

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It’s not quite the right day- but, in America, we seem to opt for Monday holidays.  So, today, not the 15th, we are honoring Dr. Martin Luther King.  It is interesting to note that his last book turns out to be a most timely concept for discussion today.

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He would be 91

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Today is actually Martin Luther King’s birthday. (No, it’s not next Monday.  That’s just the convenient choice the government makes to provide a 3 day weekend.  [That also coincides with the (racist) holiday that obtained in Virginia for more than a century- the Lee-Jackson day, theoretically celebrating the two Confederate generals, but really promoting the hagiography of the racist South.)  Had King not been murdered (and, of course, were still alive), he would be 91 today.

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Progress…but a long way to go!

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It was 50 years ago today.  A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin organized the day’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.  To strike a blow for freedom and the ability of everyone to have a job that paid reasonable wages.  A problem that still exists today- perhaps, even more so.

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