What others are saying around the ‘sphere in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day…

Juliette Ochieng says “Thank you”

Casey Lartigue tackles Dr. King’s legacy and the school-choice angle.

Dawn Eden highlights MLK’s niece Alveda, an outspoken opponent of abortion.

Dustbury on Why This Day Matters

Molotov at Booker Rising on the centrality of Rev. King’s Baptist faith

Michael King muses:

Contrary to the carpings of Jesse Jackson and others who pretend to know what Dr. King would be doing today, why not celebrate the man and his work? Why take the time, as Jackson did in a Jonesboro, GA pulpit yesterday, to attack the Bush Administration or anyone else who disagrees with you?

Dr. King worked so that I, and others, would have the opportunity to openly disagree with the status quo, and to disagree with each other. He worked so that voices wouldn’t be silenced simply for being contrary to the larger whole.

I’d like to think that Dr. King would be proud of someone like myself, who takes the time to think and speak my own mind, and who encourages others to do the same.

LaShawn Barber on how liberal elites defile MLK’s dream

More: Alex Brunk

Joshua Clayborn doesn’t flinch from the plagiarism charges against King.

Jeff G. reflects on contemporary racial theory in post-9/11 America here.

Scrappleface issues an Amber Alert for MLK’s legacy (hat tip: OTB’s MLK round-up)

Joe Gandelman recalls the day MLK was assassinated.

And Christopher Roach recounts MLK’s transgressions.