Martin Luther King Day 2026
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...