Technically, no one ever changed the law instating "Washington's Birthday" as a federal holiday. I don't know where this "Presidents Day" business came from.
Thus, the only person with a national holiday bearing his name is Martin Luther King. This seems a little wrong.
Columbus Day. But your point is still taken.
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Oh yeah. Forgot about Columbus Day.
Oh well, Columbus' actions impacted us all. And I still think that Washington, Lincoln, and Christ are more important than Martin Luther King. They are consequential to the population as a whole, not just a segment of it.
Heck. I'm a Mormon. I could make a really compelling argument that Brigham Young should have a national holiday. After all, he led people who were being persecuted for their religion across a thousand miles of wilderness and colonized, not just Utah, but a large part of the American West. Sure, the fact that he openly practiced polygamy (while Martin Luther King furtively flitted from flower to flower) might bother some people. But that shouldn't matter. He did historically consequential things. He was a very dynamic leader. And, during the course of his lifetime, he said a lot of things that were very inspirational.
But I don't expect anybody outside the Mormon population to be excited about my proposal.
And would everyone who opposed my proposal for Brigham Young Day be a bigot? No. A proposal like that would be divisive. I would be trying to force everyone to honor someone who is historically important to me and mine, but not to the country as a whole.