Open Thread: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Today is the day we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When it first was sanctioned as a federal holiday not that long ago, I remember how some people complained. "Why do we need another holiday?" they asked. Or "What did he do that makes him more important than (insert prominent white man's name here)?" That in itself was a painful reminder of how the racial tension in this country is far from being a thing of the past. [caption id="attachment_494" align="alignleft" width="217" capti
