EPISODE 142 "IN THE ABSENCE OF GREATNESS"

Today is the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. A national holiday to honor a man who did a great many things to improve race relations and conditions in the black community. I wasn't even born when his great crusade for equality was waged but today I reap the benefits of it and casually take it for granted like most of my peers. I have many causes that I feel should be marched over, but I don't do it. I still see injustice and unsettling things in our communitiy, but I still sit by in idle and just try to survive. I have my own little personal crusades, but long gone are the people who championed our causes and risked life and limb for the rights of people they don't know. We have a few local leaders, but we don't have a national face that is only a champion for causes that effect us. Barack Obama is the president of ALL Americans not just black Americans, per his own words. But we don't have a MLK in our generation, and sadly we more than likely never will. So here goes: Why don't we have leaders like MLK anymore? Do we even need a MLK in our generation? Do you think that we even have a cause that warrants a national rallying of our people that would create a need for a leader like MLK? Do you think the dream that MLK wished for has become a realization over 40 years later? If you had to give an I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH what would it say, what dreams would you like to see become reality in order to make life better in our communities and with our people? Its also Mashamuthaf***a MONDAY...your chance to vent on K-100