Martin Luther King

Today's Martin Luther King day, and I just wanted to write a couple of things about him. I'm actually a little emotional right now, which is a little abnormal. MLK is probably the person I most admire. Not just for his views, but the fact that he knew he was going to be assasinated and he still kept fighting. A man who truly had convictions, he even went against President Johnson, who he got along with well and worked with over the Civil Rights Act.

A few things.

1. King would be 79 today, only eight years older than John McCain. He died at the age of 39. Its amazing how much he accomplished at such a young age and that he would still be alive today if not for the assasination. Maybe we could have had a President King.........By the way, Jesse Jackson, who unlike Barack Obama was the first viable black candidate for the Democratic primary (apparently people forget about him), was there when King was assasinated. There were a lot of future leaders connected to Dr. King.

2. When he was shot, he wasn't at a Civil Rights rally. Dr. King was going to a march to support a striking sanitation workers union in Memphis. King wasn't just pro Civil Rights. He also fought against poverty and the Vietnam War.

3. The FBI started wiretapping King in 1961, and according to various conspiracy theories, was complicit in King's assasination. Fast forward forty years, and we're still wiretapping our own people.