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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