Martin Luther King Day

[illusionofjoy]

I was thinking about something someone told me when I attended Mad As Hell Doctors' visit to Pittsburgh. It was Reagan who signed the observance of Martin Luther King day into law. Of course, Reagan didn't want to, in fact the worst President up until Bush II took office had made strident declarations that he would never sign the observance of this holiday into law. Yet, activists kept pushing and, in the end, Reagan had to give up.

Reagan, like every other politician to have ever held office, had to be forced to do the right thing. It wasn't easy, but in the same way it takes thousands of ants to move a dead mouse, it takes an undeniable wave of public force to move Washington lawmakers.