For those of you too young to remember,
this is the way it was
in the 1960s South.
Law enforcement set dogs on protesters.
Civil rights workers were murdered.

Makes a little pepper spray look tame in comparison.

But it does point out that some things haven’t changed enough.

But here’s my real point:
We should never forget how black people
were treated back in the day.

How hard
the battle for civil rights –civil disobedience–was.
How brave our black and white brothers and sisters
who fought the battle were.

And how despite the vitriol aimed at him and others,
Dr. King stood for love.

This is why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is important enough
to have a day of remembrance.

But really, this photo is what we should remember.