DISQUS

I never got MLK Day off until moving to Arizona - a state that didn't recognize the day until 2000. Go figure. And I work in the media - an industry that would probably keep me in the office during the Rapture if they had the power.

The issue is a much bigger one. It's about the mainstream not understanding that the fight for equality is not a "black" fight or a "female" issue. It's a PEOPLE issue. They still think MLK Day is a "black" holiday. Its so sad, because that thought process proves the necessity of the day.

King himself said, Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I know many blacks who choose to work that day to show their support of the Day. They believe they have jobs that they wouldn't have been able to have had it not been for King and folks like them, so they honor him by working them.

But as for me and my house ..... we will NOT be in the office! LOL. Seriously taking the day off in honor of all of my ancestors who didn't have any days of rest on the plantation and hell, ... in their offices now!

You're not overreacting ... but truth be told it was a "you go girl" movie. I think the problem is that we have allowed the mainstream to convince us that that is automatically bad. It is possible to be "flamboyantly ethnic" and "of quality." I enjoyed the film. It wasn't great, but it was worth my two hours.

By the way, that is why I don't read reviews ... and I work in media!! LOL.