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For many years now, I challenged us to begin to celebrate The Overcome on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, April 4. I believe we should stop referring to MLK’s death as an assassination. Rather, we should treat April 4th as the day on which MLK was sacrificed for us. And we should stop singing the song “We Shall Overcome Someday,” and claim that we have already overcome through the victories of our ancestors, who, in worse times, fought and won great battles, giving us the success…]]>