The problem with national holidays is that they make groups and individuals into symbols and icons that fit into comfortable narratives about American progress.

We’re still celebrating Columbus Day, of course.

True commemorations should, instead, act as unsettling reminders of what still needs to be done.

I imagine that Martin Luther King, Jr., a rabble-rouser if there ever was one, would cringe at most of the commodified remembrances that mark this day (in this regard, my imagination is certainly influenced by the “Return of the King” Boondocks episode a few years back).

So all I want to do today is point you to the hip hop video blog “Ill Doctrine” that is talking today about “Ten OTHER Things Martin Luther King Said.”

Good stuff.