My partner is the sub postmaster in this little village in the west Texas desert. Early last month she came to work and found taped to the door a hand written sign saying, “We will be closed for Martin Luther Day”.
She laughed and walked in, ready for work. “Hey , we need to make up a new sign!”
The response of the postmaster was “Why?”
She had never heard of Martin Luther King and had no idea why their was a holiday to honor him. “Oh, I thought it was just Martin Luther”, she said.
Whaaaat??? She is a nice 50+ year old lady from a city in east Texas, a republican but not radical, religious but not fanatic, homeschooled her kids, is pleasant to all, and is “not really political”.
We have failed, Texas has failed, and I feel really dismayed by this. I have waited weeks to write this, hoping that I could draw some conclusions or make something of this episode.
But I really don’t know what to say.
