Last night, on assignment for the Traveler, I went to the Fayetteville Town Center to take pictures of Martin Luther King III. This is significant because 1) it was on the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and 2) he came to Fayetteville. Sponsored by the University of Arkansas Distinguished Lecture Series, he spoke to students earlier in the day yesterday before the community event last night. He discussed, of course, how he felt his father would view today’s society (he would be 81 this year…weird), and it was obvious that he knew he had a lot to live up to. He even went so far as to talk about current politics in America–why the wealthiest country in the world couldn’t insure it’s citizens, why there was still so much poverty, why we can print more money whenever we need to, why we hadn’t found Osama Bin Laden when we can read license plate numbers from space, and even why we should support our president even if we don’t agree with some of the things he does. It was quite an interesting speech, and people ate it up. So here’s to you, MLKIII. Good job.

















