Sunday, January 20, 2019
Sunday Reflection: Not Yet at the Mountaintop
Tomorrow is MLK day here in the US. It's an important holiday, given that the legacy and present reality of racism is the defining challenge of our country. The day set aside to consider this, though, is increasingly being used to celebrate a false sense of "mission accomplished."
I co-authored a piece about it with one of my heroes, Nkechi Taifa, who has done more than anyone I know to address the racial disparities in our criminal justice system. You can read the whole thing here. It begins this way:
As politicians and office-holders trot out their annual tributes to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., beware of a big lie that has too often been front and center in these speeches. In short, it is this: That there was racism in America, that Dr. King came and solved the problem, and now we are lucky to live in a post-racial America.
