Comment on the occasion of the MLK holiday ...... Today is the Martin Luther King holiday in the USA (Jan 21. Do US Goans understand the debt they owe people like MLK and other civil rights fighters/organizations? MLK and others made great sacrifices so equal opportunity is now available to all communities, an idea fought for around the world.
Goan prosperity owes a great deal to the opportunities and freedoms created by the Civil Rights Act and the people (mostly African-Americans) who gave their lives so others can be free. But have US Goans stopped to reflect on our good fortune? Do US Goans appreciate the African-American community or are they racist towards them? It is easy to be lost with an I-Pod, text messaging the world on mundane matters. It is easy to picnic and dance at the usual Goan "functions", these things don't take any great skills. What is a challenge is to see important points in our history, however blurred by time and our present prosperity and be grateful to those who got us here. Thank you Martin Luther King.
