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History is Not Dates

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I have always loved history, ever since I was little. I tease my older brother that my origin story was when we were little and our mom was quizzing him for an upcoming test and one of the questions was "Who painted the Mona Lisa?". He at eight years old couldn't answer. My little four year old voice chimes in "Da Vinci!". I'm still chasing that high of dunking on my older brother. I never had a lull in my love of history as a good many people do. The dates presented in school never intimidated me, as I mainly looked for the stories. Everyone loves a good story and what is better than a good true story? I believe that dates come after understanding the foundation of the story. The reason I stuck with history is that I love discovering connections. Realizing that certain people were contemporaries like Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens. Digging deeper and finding out that Poe's reputation as one of the harshest critiques of his era splashed onto Dickens...
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Martin Luther King Day 2026

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Welcome to the first post of Bullock Bits, where I plan to ramble about a little bit of this a little bit of that. I felt a good place to start would be Martin Luther King Jr Day. I have always had a complicated relationship with the idea of Dr King. I grew up near Richmond, Virginia the former capital of the Confederacy while sharing Dr King's birthday. I will admit that while knowing Dr King was someone to admire I enjoyed getting out of school every couple of years on my birthday. As I got older and began to learn more outside of what I was taught in school I began to understand how radicle his tactics were and how expansive his vision was. This past summer I was fortunate enough to go on a trip through part of the Civil Rights trail in the Deep South. The framing was around Dr Martin Luther King Jr, starting at his childhood home and his family's church of Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta to spending the last day of the trip in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel where Dr King was ass...
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