Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 15, 2024

Federal Holiday and School District Holiday!!

Cowardice asks the question “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question “Is it popular?” But conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.

— Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Nice Greyhound outfit?

M L K are the three letters in reverse alphabetical order that start the (reverse) second half of the alphabet.

I know this because I do daily exercises with sets of 13 reps so I can use the alphabet forward and back to count the reps. I also count to and from 13 in English, Spanish and German… anything to help me keep track of WHICH set I’m working on.

I’ll always be happy when MLK day falls on my birthday! (Jan 16th)

We should pay attention to this famous excerpt from his most famous speech: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Of course a totally color-blind society is not yet possible, and may never be, but America is moving intentionally toward the opposite extreme. The practical result of DEI, “intersectionality,” reparations, and countless other race-based concepts and mandates is that skin color is becoming the most significant, sometimes the only, factor by which people are judged. Is that what MLK wanted?

Happy Martin Luther King Day.

Thank you Jef. In honor of Dr King, whom the reactionaries called a Communist. Thank you for the only comic so far I have seen today that mentioned the martyr Dr King.

Mrs. Olsen is right. Such days are reminders of all that has gone before. Same for talking with the elderly. They provide context for the young. They have seen and experienced what the young have not and might not, progress being what it is. Properly respected, they provide perspective and guidance in a way that can be stored for future thought and use. They make the past a resource for the future. That is, for those sharp enough to recognize it.

As Rodney King asked, Can’t we all just get along?"

In the process of sanitizing Dr. King from radical to holiday, many things have been removed from the picture. The most important thing that goes unmentioned is that he was a Democratic Socialist; he recognized that class element of racial discrimination, and frequently said that there could be no racial justice without economic justice.

Let us never forget what his final public appearance was about; in April ‘68 he was in Memphis for an economic action, supporting the sanitation workers’ strike.

Celebrate Dr. King’s legacy; if you work for an hourly wage, join a union!!!

check, please…

It sneaks up on us because stores have nothing to sell to celebrate it, no cards, no candy, no toys. When NH was the last state to make it a holiday I shook my head. The kids would take the day off from lessons to play around. If they really wanted to honor him, it would be better to have the kids in school learning some history.

Have to love when someone MAGAsplains what MLKjr actually meant. Of course, they need to do this, because they really don’t want to be judged by their character, and where it’s lacking. They lie when they say they aren’t judging people by the color of their skin. If they didn’t, there would be a lone black jogger still alive and jogging in Georgia.

Well now the FAA has announced they will be hiring more folks with physical & mental disabilities!! Not by merit

Wishing you a meaningful Martin Luther King Day.

I don’t think school closings would make Rev. King feel honored.

It doesn’t sneak up on people who have the day off.

Really, Mallet? This is the best you can do?