Happy MLK Day!

Happy MLK day! I like MLK day. No, really. We get reconditioned holidays all the time. You know, move it to Monday, rename it, but it’s the same old holiday, but MLK day? Brand NEW! And, they did move it to a Monday, so in Texas that’s spelled B R I S K E T. Hey, we Texans would smoke a brisket to celebrate the re-election of Kim Jong Un, ok? For all the Yankee propaganda our necks are just not that red! Shucks, we’ve even got a Texas holiday down here called “June Teenth.” The yankees landed on Galveston Island on June 19th, 1865 and enforced Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation, and every year the state breaks out in Bar B Q to commemorate the event. We don’t freak it up by putting it on a Monday, either. Oh, it started out as a black holiday, but slowly buy surely somebody noticed, “Hey! They’re cooking Bar B Q over there, and EVERYBODY jumped in! For all the clamor about the border we even have a big time on Cinco de Mayo! That’s the Mexican fourth of July for all you Northern boys out there. We don’t like the border situation, but that’s no reason to stop a beer party. 

How many times have you seen a holiday get named after somebody? I’m serious. I mean you have to have a WAR or something to inflict a holiday! And I mean a big one. Curious note: we don’t take off on March 6th, the day the Alamo fell. You gotta start some CRAP to get a holiday! Jesus had to get Himself killed and come back from the DEAD to get a holiday. And Dr. Martin Luther King GOT one! I say! 

But it’s a good holiday. Dr. King’s life, and death, marked a change in America. He took very real issues, wrestled with them and began to turn things around, not only for black folk, but for everybody. When you have a situation such as existed in the deep south in the 50’s it didn’t just hurt minorities, it hurt everybody. The “Back of the bus” mentality filtered down. Anybody out there remember “vagrancy” laws? Yeah, if you didn’t have a job you could go to JAIL! Good thing we did away with those because under Obama we wouldn’t have jails enough! Sitting on your butt, doing nothing was a misdemeanor.   If sitting on your butt were still a crime we’d have to arrest the entire congress!

Of all the protestors, Black Panthers, weird groups with weirder flags, only Dr. King is remembered with a national holiday. Wanna know why? Because he really DID change things! He didn’t just make a few speeches, write a few books, get on the “View,” he went to Washington DC and got laws passed to enforce the constitution! Oh, and he was a Republican, too. Always liked that. And he wasn’t like Al (pass the plate) Sharpton, either. While he had to concentrate on the segregation laws he did not ignore everyone else. The underlying theme to all he said and did was that he worked for a better America! Poor Dr. King. I’m glad he can't see what America has become now. Ask yourself, what would Dr. King have to say about Gay Marriage, Fast and Furious, OBAMA? You KNOW what he’d have to say. He would rip out that King James, run his fingers down the pages, and find  passages the POPE didn’t know were there! 

So, today we honor someone who came along and really DID something. For all the people screaming about  Michael Brown, for all the rhetoric spewed out by the likes of Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, for all the Whoopie nonsense on the View (Did you hear they’re getting cancelled?) this one man made a difference, for ALL of us. I miss Dr. King!