“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma
Gandhi to come back – but they are gone. It is up to us. It is
up to you.” – Marian Wright Edelman I saw this quote on Facebook
a couple days after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. The
quote made me think about what would MLK, Jr. be doing and
saying about current events. I have read and/or listened to many
of Martin’s writings and speeches, so I could (I hope)
reasonably extrapolate his views. Of course, it’s difficult to
ascertain what his impact on society and the culture would be
had he survived. Maybe progress in some areas would have
happened sooner; maybe he would been rendered largely
irrelevant. That’s the thing about those who die, especially
those who die relatively young; they are frozen in time. Maybe,
instead of him dying in 1968, I should imagine that he was
traveling to another planet, and finally made it back, this
century. The overriding issue for Martin Luther King was always
justice. He would fret over the continuing divi