Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

My son was mad when he found out he had piano lessons on Martin Luther King day.

“We’re supposed to not do anything,” he said with a tinge of disgust in his voice when I broke the news that he was going to have to endure a half hour of piano lessons today.

It made me wonder where he got the notion that Martin Luther King day was a day when you weren’t supposed to do anything.

Clearly, the schools thought so, according to him. No school = Do nothing. Well, other than Wii.

I told he and his sister to Google civil rights so they could figure out what the day was really all about. (more…)