Volume 6
The Black Sheep The College Newspaper That's Actually About College
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Issue 1
MARTIN LUTHER KING, WE THANK THEE
Evan Lawrence wrote this With Martin Luther King, Jr. Day coming up this Monday, January 19, people of all backgrounds across the country will be preparing to celebrate the civil rights leader who had a profound impact on putting an end to the Jim Crow laws in the American South. Celebratory observations include the Freedom March in downtown Lexington, which UK co-sponsors. While MLK Day is widely considered a holiday associated with African American identity and pride, there is a largely unnoticed population of Americans who equally appreciate King's brave work and the annual celebration of his life that the country observes. Perhaps the most outspoken group of non-African American people who actively celebrate the holiday are students. "I am so incredibly thankful for the courage Dr. King put forth in the '60s. It has a direct impact on every single one of us once a year," UK senior history major Buckley Cornish said. "Without him, there's no way I could bank on having the first Monday back from winter break off from classes. Can you imagine that?" Indeed, since its first year as a nationally-observed holiday in 2000, public schools at all levels have been given the third Monday of January the day off, giving non-African Americans a reason to celebrate. "Like, ohmuhgod, Martin Luther King has been my biggest hero since I first realized in kindergarten how his hard work for the African American people guaranteed us a January Monday off from school every year!" freshman cosmetology major, Emily Jacobs, said. "Dr. King's courage and hard work has inspired my personality and lifestyle ever since then, as I know I could not make it through the first month back from school without his holiday." Despite protest from the African American community about some white Americans' approach to recognizing the holiday—such as dressing up as black stereotypes for fraternity parties—a surprising amount of white people like Cornish and Jacobs continue to be ignorant about the actual significance of the holiday. Among them include Parks Wetherington IV, a freshman experiencing his first year at a public institution after growing up in various boarding schools.
"Wait a minute, so you're telling me that in our first weekend back in January, we get to have back-to-school ragers on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night?" Wetherington said, "That's f***king awesome! I am so appreciative of this Marvin Lutherking guy now. Hell, I'll even call it my new favorite holiday." Cornish, president of the Zeta Nu chapter at UK, noted how the timeliness of the Civil Rights Movement icon's holiday was key to fraternity rush.
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"MLK was such a great person that he aligned his holiday with the first weekend of spring rush," Cornish said, "he was a hell of a guy for all of the different things he did—I'm not exactly sure what they were, but I'm sure they were pretty rad." The 2015 observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day will mark the 16th year of it being a nationally recognized holiday, making it at least that many times uneducated non-African American people have had the opportunity to say something ignorant and rash about the purpose of the holiday.
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