January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

Forty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King was violently taken from us. I’m just an average middle class white guy from a little town in Iowa who was 4 months old when was killed. On this day it, it’s hard to realize that I’m older now than he was when he died. It’s harder still to imagine how much he was able to accomplish in his short life and how little I have done to make anyone’s life better. But the hardest thing to accept is how much our culture sugarcoats his message to valorize his soaring words of love and wisdom without accepting the harder parts — the yoke of courage and determination that it takes to stand up against the evil that power can create, no matter what the cost or how difficult the journey. We hold him up as a modern day prophet, but we don’t hold ourselves to his message.

In any event, so many people have so many better things to say about his life and his legacy. I can only add my sense of awe that in 39 years, he was courageous enough to to do more for humanity than I will ever do in a lifetime. May he continue to rest in peace.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted by Head Rooster in Ideas on April 4th, 2008 ‌  Trackback Link

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