re: Is a Juneteenth Federal Holiday Enough?

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I would love to have a time machine as well and transport Frederick Douglass to today and have him speak to the modern "Civil Rights Leaders" we have as they complain about how hard life has been for them and for blacks as a whole. Or maybe the ghost of the 1st black man to win the CMH who was a freed slave that ran into battle carrying the American flag.

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This brings up a thought I've had often recently.

There's the saying, "You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain." What about MLK? Obviously his message at the time was correct, and there's a reason it still resonates with normal people today. But the circle that surrounded him were guys like John Lewis and Jesse Jackson, who not too long after his death became race hucksters of the highest order.

Part of me wishes MLK had lived to see the huge progress that had been made and to stand up to what's been happening, but there's a part of me that wonders if he HAD lived would he have also taken the other road and sold his soul and the success of the people he said he was fighting for for a quick buck like his friends did?

At this point, I'm not even sure why black activists even bother celebrating MLK, since their messaging is 180 degrees in opposition to what he was preaching.