Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Have a Nice Holiday

It will be light posting as a struggle to throw off a cold and we celebrate Martin Luther King Day.

A few years back we hired a big shot college dean and educational poobah to come in and take a look at diversity issues.  One of the first things he did was to change MLK day to celebrate what King called "The Beloved Community".  I have to say at first, as a history teacher, I wanted to keep the focus on King, but over time I've seen the wisdom of shifting the focus from the man to the ideas he embodied.

Anyway, here's your MLK day video:

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