Martin Luther King Day
Hey everyone,
I just figured I would post today since this is one of the most important holidays, in my opinion. Now more or less you guys already know I am Puerto Rican. What you don't know is that I am like 40 percent Puerto Rican and the rest is a mixture of (pure blooded) Taieno Indian, French, Sicilian (Italian), Spanian, German, Irish, English, African, Portuguese, and Cuban. Some people would consider me a (mutt) breed but I love every bit and peace of my background and my many denominations. This is why I love Martin Luther King Day.
Because what most people these days seem to forget is that he not only fought for the African American community but for everyone of color including the Hispanics. Now it kinda pisses me off when I do see people say that MLK is just for African American rights and they almost always exclude that he also was for the Hispanic community. I don't know if this is another race issue or whatever, I just believe that when people have Hispanic month, that we remember MLK for his achievements. Just ask any if they knew that MLK was also fighting for the Latino Community and see what response you get. Ive done this in my school and about 3 out of 20 people knew that MLK fought for everyone of color. I don't know if its the miss-communication of history or people trying to bend the truth to their own cause but sometimes I just think that honesty is pure when its best left as the truth. In anycase, I just believe we should all have a more understanding that Martin Luther King was the voice of millions of people of color whether Hispanic or not.
Happy Martin Luther King Day.
I just figured I would post today since this is one of the most important holidays, in my opinion. Now more or less you guys already know I am Puerto Rican. What you don't know is that I am like 40 percent Puerto Rican and the rest is a mixture of (pure blooded) Taieno Indian, French, Sicilian (Italian), Spanian, German, Irish, English, African, Portuguese, and Cuban. Some people would consider me a (mutt) breed but I love every bit and peace of my background and my many denominations. This is why I love Martin Luther King Day.
Because what most people these days seem to forget is that he not only fought for the African American community but for everyone of color including the Hispanics. Now it kinda pisses me off when I do see people say that MLK is just for African American rights and they almost always exclude that he also was for the Hispanic community. I don't know if this is another race issue or whatever, I just believe that when people have Hispanic month, that we remember MLK for his achievements. Just ask any if they knew that MLK was also fighting for the Latino Community and see what response you get. Ive done this in my school and about 3 out of 20 people knew that MLK fought for everyone of color. I don't know if its the miss-communication of history or people trying to bend the truth to their own cause but sometimes I just think that honesty is pure when its best left as the truth. In anycase, I just believe we should all have a more understanding that Martin Luther King was the voice of millions of people of color whether Hispanic or not.
Happy Martin Luther King Day.
posted by ÅŽG€£ ©. at
4:09 PM
2 Comments:
My Sweet Angel....
I hope you don't mind me calling
you that...
When I was growing up we didn't
celebrate MLK jr....It's not like
we weren't taught about him or
anything but when I was growing up
things were totally different than
they are now....
It's good to see that now we have
a man who will take over this
country and make it better for
all....
TACKLE YOU HUGS!!!!!!!!
he did a lot of good and could have done so much more but it wasnt meant to be. now we need someone like him 2 stand up for us so we all have equal rights like he fought for.
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