Just four days after MLK Jr was assassinated on April 4, 1968, a National holiday in his honor was proposed.

It took 15 years for it to become recognized federally.

It wasn’t until 32 years after his death that all fifty states finally recognized the holiday in the year 2000.

The final holdout, South Carolina, had empowered its citizens to recognize one of three confederate holidays instead.

16 years later, we elected a man who spearheaded the birther movement— demanding the birth certificate of the first African American President in US history.

And after a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville VA erupted in violence, he said there were good people on both sides.

He referred to African & Haitian nations as shithole countries and banned 1.6 billion Muslims from entering the US.

And all of it feels like we’re just screaming blah blah blah past is prologue into an endless abyss.