2005-01-17

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today is, of course, the holiday on which Americans are supposed to remember and commemorate the contributions of Martin Luther King, Jr. The establishment of the holiday might have had the paradoxical consequence of neutralising Dr King, making him into a noncontroversial and consensual voštana figura. So it would not be a bad idea to become reacquainted with some of the things he actually had to say. His thoughts on the war in Vietnam, for example, have become timely once again.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow --- liked that "voštana figura" rhetorical spice!

Eric Gordy said...

Thanks, I thought I was just forgetting my English!