On This Martin Luther King Day,

while it's true we have the first African American in the White House starting tomorrow, and I won't talk about the technicalities of that claim, we are still a long, long way from having King's dream fulfilled.

Here is the entire "I Have a Dream" speech, which still gives me the chills after all these years:

Miscellaneous.

The WSWS takes a look at the King assassination 40 years later.
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The death of Diana was just as we always knew--she was a victim of a drunk driver and even of obsessive paparazzi.
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The state begged to differ the claim of judicial bias in the Darren Mack case.
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Tom Brokow

ponders MLK's legacy:




The second coming of MLK, Barack Obama, will be nowhere near Memphis today.

It's

been 40 years, incredibly enough, since Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis. The Commerical Appeal has a section devoted to King.

Yesterday some activists there called for new action.

I remember the assassination like it was yesterday. I was in seventh grade at the time and heard about the killing in my first-period science class. It had happened several hours before, but I hadn't heard the news. It was a horrible shock.

Here is RFK's remarks about the killing, which is full of irony, of course: