Last week, Americans commemorated Martin Luther King Day – a day created in 1983 to remember the man and the movement he led for justice and equality. The problem is that since MLK Day was created, by Congressional legislation and signed into law by then-president Ronald Reagan, there has been a steady erosion of the meaning of the day.
The history of the civil rights struggle has been forgotten, and now the administration of President Donald Trump appears bent on erasing the history of racial injustice that led to Dr King and the civil rights movement he led.
It, therefore, should not have been surprising that Mr Trump had be goaded by civil rights leaders into issuing a statement acknowledging the day last week. Nor was it surprising that the statement was only begrudgingly released when the day was almost over, said little about Dr King, and only appeared on the White House website, without the usual social media amplification.
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