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Today is the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. A national holiday to honor a man who did a great many things to improve race relations and conditions in the black community. I wasn't even born when his great crusade for equality was waged but today I reap the benefits of it and casually take it for granted like most of my peers. I have many causes that I feel should be marched over, but I don't do it. I still see injustice and unsettling things in our communitiy, but I still sit by in idle and just try to survive. I have my own little personal crusades, but long gone are the people who championed our causes and risked life and limb for the rights of people they don't know. We have a few local leaders, but we don't have a national face that is only a champion for causes that effect us. Barack Obama is the president of ALL Americans not just black Americans, per his own words. But we don't have a MLK in our generation, and sadly we more than likely never will. So here goes: Why don't we have leaders like MLK any