MAIN THREAD: MLK And General Discussion

 Since we're heading into Martin Luther King Day, I figured I would make the new thread about good ole Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I've always subscribed to MLK's credo of unity and brotherhood amongst the races.  I'm all about that - about people treating people as people and judging them on their character, not the color of their skin. The belief that people, black and white (and all races), can sit at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood. Which is what King believed in.

I'm also against racism in any form. Yes, that includes racism against Caucasians and, no, I don't need to hear the bs "minorities can't be racist" line because, globally, white people are the minority. Moving on. 

With that out of the way, this is a thread about the good doctor, so let's get some quick bio info.  From Wikipedia:

"Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.  King participated in, and led marches for, the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights.

King was jailed several times because FBI director J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of COINTELPRO from 1963. King won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War."

Of course, any good MLK thread wouldn't be complete without mentioning his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, in which he preached about unity between blacks and whites, about maintaining one's integrity and denouncing violence on the path to achieving that dream. And since I'm not nearly the wordsmith MLK was, I will simply post this link to his speech in its entirety:  https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety

So I will leave you, my friends, with one of the greatest, simple yet powerful, quotes in history (followed by a lighthearted afterthought): "I have a dream".  A dream which was summarized a couple decades later by two teenagers from San Dimas, California: "Be excellent to each other".

Talk about MLK, racial unity, Bill and Ted, and anything else ya want.  Because, God Almighty, we're free at last.