They are clueless about why we celebrate Martin Luther King,jr Day!

I am not from the United States yet the title of this post that not many people in the US know anymore who Reverend King was, gives me shivers. A country that forgets it´s true heroes id walking to its doom. It is a shame that a whole country can forget about it. I have seen many posts here about TV shows, realities and other light stuff. But everybody seems to have forgotten how, just 50 years ago, great singers, saxo players and movie stars could not swim in a Municipal swimming pool or ride in the front of a public bus just because of their race. Children could not study in the University, no matter how bright they were. Dr King helped change that. And with no excesive blood shed. Your actual President is a proof of all that Dr King made possible. But I suppose there´s a long road to walk yet. I´m not a blonde, but I would feel awfully p*ssed off if someone made the word blonde an equivalent of being dumb. It is another racism. I hope someday, we (the human race) will discover that we are all brothers and sisters no mater what race or skin color, that wars are stupid, that power is not as important as love. In my country we don´t celebrate Martin Luther King Jr´s day, we don´t have afro chileans (there are other races here, be it by immigration or native) but we know who he was.

Today is martin luther king day and I only vaguely remember what the day is about. In order to tell my children what it is about I would have to look it up online. Thats pretty bad. I am horrible with history I really learned nothing in school. All I know is that my daught is home from school today and I am happy.