"Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did"

[loudsue]

17. This is what I SO LOVE about this HOLIDAY!!! Every year on MLK, Jr. day, I learn something new

AND we commemorate the life of a truly awesome American hero. Look at all the other holidays: it's not about pulling together for veterans and their struggles, labor and their valiant battles and hard work, 4th of July, and what it really meant to form a more perfect union and break away from the mother country. All those are more about sales at the mall, hot dogs & cook-outs, a parade or two, and fireworks.

Even the religious holidays aren't so much about their underlying moral messages and reverence for the fact that we are all supposed to grow into good people, and try to do better by our fellow earth dwellers. They are about who is obligated to do what and for whom, and how much it's going to cost, and what we can eat and with whom.

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I always learn something new about this amazing man, and all non-sociopathic people can feel a connection to one another, coming together to stand by one another.

From now on when people ask me "what's your favorite holiday?", I'm going to tell them "it's Martin Luther King Day", and then I'm going to tell them why.

And I'll continue to be a misfit in the rural south, but there are worse things.