MLK Day. Or, how short a memory the general populace has.

Today marks the recognition of the efforts and achievements of a civil rights pioneer, yet instead of celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by visiting a museum or attending some type of educational or informative program, students and parents are complaining that school is in session due to the recent snows. The City of Charlotte had to use today as a snow make-up day, and all we've heard on the local news for three or four days is how the community is up in arms over the decision.  

It's really funny (and completely unnoticed by the mainstream media in the Greater Charlotte market) that Charlotte's mayor, who defends this decision, and who said people are making a huge to-do about absolutely nothing, is, well, black.

Are the masses who are complaining about this turn of events truly upset that the memory of a great man is being tarnished, or are they simply whining that they won't get to sit at home on their collective asses today and play PS3 or watch television?

Seems we as a society have learned nothing more than a vacation day trumps actually learning or understanding and celebrating something important.

The human race is capable of astonishing accomplishments, and probably the most amazing feat is our ability to simply FORGET. History used to be lost to antiquity, crumpled to dust like the sands of time. Now, in our short attention span world, it's lost in minutes. We, as a society, have forgotten why Dr. King ...lost his life. We have forgotten why we must take off our shoes and let strangers x-ray us at the airport. We have forgotten about common men who have picked up arms against enemies within and without our ranks.

"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." ~George Santayana, 1905