This is the Tom Hartman program.

Well, happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

It is a remarkable day.

Of course, it's the day that we honor and celebrate the legacy of

Dr King and so of course white supremacist are rallying, you know, to rant

about guns in Virginia.

Surprise, surprise.

Roanjata, who writes regularly

for op-ed news and frequently calls into this program as published an op-ed

over at op-ed news today. What would MLK think today? I think it's fascinating.

He says, you know, he points out this is the first and only national holiday

honoring a black man. The first time was 34 years ago, January 20th, 1986. He says, I think Dr King

would be astonished at the fact that the United States is involved,

and has been involved in perpetual wars.

One of Dr. King's last speeches was entitled Beyond Vietnam.

He would be astonished to see the millions of innocent people killed in all of these years since his day,

many of them children by the United States as a result of these wars.

He'd be astonished at the number of black people in America who continue to be summarily executed via extrajudicial process by state

Assassin. So those cops are still killing black people.

The social metrics, Kenyatta points out, are not significantly changed, or in many cases worse, police

abuse, misconduct, inferior schools, unemployment, poverty, poor health care, discrimination,

incarceration. He'd be perplexed that the United States

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