Archive for January, 2008

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Jan

M.L.K. Day

    

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan on March 14, 1968,  just a few weeks before his assassination. King was targeted by a racist gang opposed to open housing in the affluent suburb of Detroit.

 We don’t have school on Monday because, it is a day to sit and reflect on what Martin Luther King Jr. did to change our country. Schools would close because we know that King Jr. would die to make everyone in our country equal. He said “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” I think that means that if you believe in something enough and think that it should happen that you will do anything to make it come true. The point of celebrating his birthday to be able to know what he did in his life and how the United States would be horrible if he did not do what he did. I think that we should not go to school because it is a time to be with your family and know that your life could be terrible if Martin Luther King Jr. did not do what he did.