I was listening to a popular podcast where the host made the claim they were driving through a city during Martin Luther King Day this year and saw actual fireworks flying into the air at night, and the host made the assertion that “In some cities especially with large black populations people will shoot fireworks into the air to celebrate MLK Day”.
I have literally never heard of this, nor do I hear fireworks go off in my city during MLK Day despite also have a large African-American population here, so I found this statement rather odd. Granted, I didn’t know Juneteenth was an actual thing before 5 years ago so I don’t know if I’m just out of touch.
I’ve never experienced this, altho I know some people look for any excuse to set off fireworks. But I live in a rural county with lots of Amish, so probably not the demographic to celebrate MLK Day vigorously.
Really? In my part of Atlanta, people will shoot fireworks for anything. 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the Thursday before a long weekend… it’s become incredibly annoying after Georgia legalized the bigger types of display fireworks for consumer use.
I expect that it’s mostly people who bought fireworks for New Year’s Eve, and didn’t use them all up then, and MLK Day is just the next convenient opportunity to have a party and set the rest of them off.
There are idiots in my neighborhood who will set off noisy crap way late at night just because it’s a day ending in Y. Hard to tell if MLK Day was anything special there.
People on my NextDoor have started complaining in advance about Fourth of July, and someone mentioned fireworks were shot off this previous MLK Day. I didn’t hear any.