CNN analyst: ‘Now it’s your turn. What are you going to do?’

CNN political analyst Roland Martin challenged a crowd of more than 250 listeners at Friday’s ceremony celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. to consider their legacy.

Martin is an author and a contributor to the syndicated Tom Joyner radio show. He spoke at Terrebonne Parish’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was held at the Courtyard Marriott in Houma.

“… I ask you today, can you ask yourself, ‘What kind of legacy will you leave?’” he asked.

“I believe that his holiday is not specific to Dr. King, he was just the vessel that is used to celebrate many, for instance, Dorothy Height,” the CNN analyst said, referencing the president of the National Council of Negro Women for more than 40 years.

Martin said King “put in his time.” “Now it’s your turn. What are you going to do?” he asked the crowd.

“We can’t stand here and wait for somebody who has gone to glory to play like Lazarus and come back and continue working in the conditions that we are facing today.”