On this somber MLK day: honoring John Lewis among many others

[misssylviadrake]

I asked myself this morning what can I contribute in good memory of and to honor the tragically assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr. Then I read David Remnick's essay in the New Yorker: John Lewis, Trump and the Meaning of Legitimacy

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Very good point, Ellen. --Bob

[misssylviadrake]

Remnick and so many others fall for this perpetual seeking for big people, for the hero (or heroine), for the "special genius" as a site of history. But we are all history, the person no one pays attention to, no stories in newspapers are written about offers the perspective which do not obscure the dominating effect of culture, circumstances, other people, contingency, other issues: gender, class, sexual orientation. Let us honor Martin Luther King today by imagining all these other people