MLK DAY

The United States just celebrated MLK day amidst the shambles of a man called Donald Dumb. A man who has further polarised the world by bringing race relations to its lowest ebb. Well MLK day has been for quite some time now a day of stock taking and reflection as I honor the altar boy from sweet Auburn Avenue that later became the immortal Martin Luther King. Conviction, perseverance  and faith  saw him through the bridge at Selma, Alabama and at the Mall in Washington D.C. As I take time off to remember MLK, I equally take time to remember brother Malcolm X. They had parallel live trajectories as it relates to ideology but they surely converged at the confluence of negro redemption. Sad that mainstream America wants to discount the work of Minister Malcolm but his legacy is indelibly scribed in our psyche for his contribution to the upliftment of the negro is undoubtedly stellar. Indeed the negro came a long way but surely the race is still not over as we now witness atrocities that are reminiscent of the days of Governor  Wallace and many other segregation stalwarts who refused to not only acknowledge the negro as equals but willfully usurped our inalienable rights. The government reneged on our 40 acres and a mule but we shall not forget as history is our guiding light to salvation. Hoping for better days for the negro in these United States because he has been  short changed for far too long and all he asked for is his fair share of the American dream. RIP Treyvon Martin and many others whose civil liberties were curtailed by zealous gun toting law enforcers who are ignorant and intolerant to the negro's right in the USA. Happy MLK Day and praying  for better days for my folks. As we celebrate MLK, we should equally remember the likes of Ralph Abarnathy, John Lewis, SCLC members and all freedom loving  people (whites, jews, Latinos) who worked hand in glove with the good reverend to get to the mountain top. We are yet to overcome but freedom shall surely come our way in and out of the United States. Oppression is a disease that needs global extinction. Social equality is a remedy to our global woes. The pie needs to be redistributed