They All Deserve The Holiday

I'm probably going to get myself into trouble with this one, but here goes. Why is the national holiday representing the struggle for the civil rights devoted entirely to one man, Martin L. King Jr. The Revolution of the Movement was much more than Dr. King. There are millions of others who deserve recognition for what they did for civil rights, and for what was done to them because of civil rights, for all they endured to ensure that minorities enjoy the same treatment and freedom whites have always had in this country. People who put the actual lives on the line to make sure that the lives of minorities hold the same worth as the lives of the majority.

There should be a national holiday that celebrates the entirety of the peoples struggle. The day Feb. 15, should be celebrated as Dr. King's birthday. His family, friends, and anybody else who sees fit to honor him on the day of his birth should do so. The movement however, started decades before Dr. King was the public face it presented. Many many years before Dr King's powerful voice rang out against the inhuman injustices natives and others minorities suffered at the hands of majority. Millions, tens of millions gave their all to the struggle. They are part of the dream too. Dr. King got into the movement in 1955, when Rosa Parks didn't get up. He played a fantastic role, his voice spoke to the wrongs of all the generations of people that suffered under white supremacy. But, I think even if Dr King hadn't came on the scene, the peoples Movement would have prevailed.

As we now know Dr King was a great, and flawed man. He had one night stands, used foul language, made crude jokes about others blacks, smoked and drank. He lived pretty much as most people do, he enjoyed life. He was like many of the men who supposedly founded this country. Men who wrote all glossy words of freedom and equality, yet lived live completely opposite of the words they put to paper. Like the Preachers today who tell us to house the homelees, fed the hungry, give medical help to the sick, and above all don't commit sins of the flesh. Preachers who live as lavishly as Saddam Hussein lived his life, and have the morals of alley cats. These men of the cloth have sexual affairs with women and men.

All the humans beings who help along the way with Civil Rights deserve the same lifestyle Dr. Kings children enjoy. Yet today Dr Kings family and cohorts are the only people benefiting financially from the people's struggle. His family now sells his most famous speeches to push stuff in t.v. advertising. His children have grown up very privileged. It seems his children are willing to share his words, and his dream only to profit themselves. Without the Movement the country wouldn't have known Dr. King existed.

Before the Civil Rights Bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, blacks in the United States lived under Communist rule, minus the socialism. Everything you have heard about the brutality Communism casually bestowed upon it's citizens, is paralleled in the treatment of black by all whites, not just the government in our country. For the 100 years following the end of Civil War in 1865, to the passage of Civil Rights Bill in 1964 the government sold millions of blacks (mostly men and boys, some women and girls) to forced labor camps owned and operated by corporate America. Some of these workers were literally worked to death. Certain people got tired of this America, and said no. Blacks, whites, and all others who said no all have a legacy. They all deserve the Holiday.