Maybe it's just me feeling blue today or the fact that I live in a 97% white state here in Iowa. Or maybe because I grew up in much more hopeful and inspiring times regarding civil rights, but it seems today like the MLK holiday has run its course, sort of like Labor Day, and there is no longer any specialness or meaning to it like the old days. Here in Iowa, the only holiday aspects of it are the schools being closed and no postal services. All the banks are still open, as are all the businesses, except maybe for the few black owned businesses. When I look on the TV today, even there there appears to be little in the way of programming that draws attention to the holiday.

Maybe one could say that in present day America, as far as race relations, with the fraud of Obama becoming prez and turning out to be some sort of moderate black Republican followed by Trump turning out to be an openly racist user of racial division, there no longer seems to be any point of looking back on MLK for pride and inspiration or hope, since both parties have now reached Mission Accomplished in destroying any hope of the Beloved Community that King was proposing.....