I called in from Batavia, IL, and spoke after I had listened to the span of topics from the "legacy of MLK" to the myth of the white savior for America.

My original point, before being inspired by intelligent comment while I waited to respond, was that the legacy of MLK was revealed not in his inspired service from his work at the Montgomery Improvement Association, circa 1957; nor even his work on the national stage as spokesperson for Bayard Rustin's March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, nor even his advocacy with President Johnson in the oval office, nor his advocacy for the Memphis sanitation workers in the two weeks before his death. It was captured in his speech on April 4, 1967, exactly one year to the day before his death, at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, when he spoke against the insanity of the war in Vietnam. He found grounding in Christian principles that rose above any secular sense of justice, and in opposition to the cultural or "tribal" affiliations (my words) that were encouraged among those in the civil rights movement in opposition to this uplifting of a universal sense of justice that he understood.

I think that universal sense of justice that MLK clearly understood should be upheld on the day of commemoration of his life and service to humanity.

Dave