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Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! This past summer I was able to visit Atlanta, GA and take in all of the MLK sites. Last week I posted about his childhood home and Ebenezer Baptist Church where he pastored and his funeral was held. To read about his early years please visitMelody and Martin Luther King, Jr. Part 1.
Nothing I show or write is graphic, but the subject is very harsh. I have a lot of young subscribers and do not want to frighten them, but unfortunately this is our country&#;s history. Reader discretion is advised.
I started my day at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historical Site. It is an amazing museum and is free to all visitors. The displays and information are set up very well. While visiting all four attractions in the “Sweet Auburn” area, everyone I encountered was very friendly and said hello to me. I was able to strike up many conversations with other tourists while there, making this one of the most pleasant places I’ve had a privilege to visit.
Inside the center, the displays start with photographs of segregation and horrors of what life was like as a black person living in the south.
As someone who wasn’t alive before the ’s, I’ve never had a grasp on segregation. I’ve never felt it.
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In a remote corner of my college office sits two full shelves of ‘tacky religious merchandise.’ Surprisingly, I have not purchased a single item of the collection ranging from the rubber ducky nativity set to the John Calvin bobble head doll. Instead, I simply curate the odd assortment of items that friends and fellow faculty members bring back from their treks around the world. Instead of gold, frankincense or myrrh, these wise men and women present their gifts to me andwait to see whether they will be deemed trick, treat or just plain tacky.
Last year, a colleague was travelling through Germany and stopped off in Wittenberg. It was Reformation Day and a full year after the “Luther ” celebrations, a national celebration that came complete with a limited edition Martin Luther Playmobil doll (also in my collection!). Having supplied the odd collection of “Christian kitsch” in the past, this colleague dove into the 50 percent-off bin of “Luther clearance” items. He brought me back a Martin Luther chocolate figurine, a mini “95 theses” with small hammer and thumb tacks to affix to my own imaginary Wittenberg Church door, and a t-shirt with Luther dressed like Che Guevara emblazoned with the slogan “Viva la Reforma
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