Martin Luther King Day was last Monday. King of course was a pivotal figure in racial integration and equality before the law, but he was largely a figure head a rallying point and his assignation made him larger than life as it did with the other politicians killed during the sixties. If King had lived however he may have lost his popularity for he most certainly would have taken up issues that were not as popular such as social equality and justice for all and a levelling of the obscene income inequalities. He most certainly would have opposed the war. A black man fighting for issues that affected all Americans would not have gone over very well and there would be no holiday in his honor.
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