Today, Monday the nineteenth of January, is Martin Luther King day. Not a date that is observed much in the UK, but in the USA it's a national holiday. One wonders what he would think if he were alive today. The current situation in the USA give the appearance of regression, of having lost all the progress made over the years in the field of civil rights. The closet racists, and mysogynists have been emboldened to emerge from under their rocks and logs to freely vent their hatreds, encouraged by the deranged demented lunatic who sits festering in the White House. His vile infection even seems to have reached us in the UK, where our own nazis fantasise about gaining office.
But in despair there is always hope. Hope that the current chaos prevailing will turn to order if we work and even fight hard enough to that end. King himself had a message for those who despair.
