I'm Dreaming of a White MLK Day

Let's get a few things out of the way. The US has a holiday to celebrate the ideas, hopes and aspirations of Martin Luther King Jr. this is not a so called black holiday but instead one that all people of all races can hold on to and hope for a better future. MLK was not a great man who was perfect but instead he was a man with great ideas that he tried to live up to and yet failed at just like the mere mortal that he was.

Now that we have that out of the way I would like to continue on with the blog.

I am currently living on the coast of Massachusetts and living through the second of the Nor'easters of the season.both occurring in the last couple of weeks. This has created a snow fall of about 40 inches in the last couple of weeks.

Since I have spent so much of my life in Southern California and even Oklahoma I am just not used to this kind of torrent of the white stuff. Shoveling everyday with mounds of snow 8 feet in the air was something I never thought much about till this winter. I am a tough guy but this does push the limits of sanity for me especially when you listen to the number of people who already question my sanity.

Since MLK day is approaching quickly I thought back to the others that I have lived through. Yes, there has been a few inches of snow but never a few feet of the white stuff. I then wondered why we do not have a song for the Holiday and I was inspired to borrow and change the Christmas carol and rename it "I'm Dreaming of a White MLK Day".

Crass you maybe thinking, but why would inserting a song about snow bother you. It is the middle of winter, it is New England and we are expecting more snow. Enjoy your MLK day but remember not the arguments about if he was a great man or a subversive communist instead remember his simple words (with deep meaning)


"Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children—black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics—will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
I know that there will be some idiot that will try and get this blog removed because I quoted a man that used the term Negro..... get a life and maybe even try and understand what MLK was talking about.