Posted on 01/19/2005 12:40:07 AM PST by Stoat
My sincere apologies for your rough day.
MLK did try "bargaining" with local officials. But he shouldn't have had to.
Everyone of those individuals had a right to sit ins and protests!
MLK did try to talk to businessess. Read "Letter from Birmingham jail!" They tried!
As a conservative, I find it unconscionable that only this man has a federal holiday set aside for him.
I feel that the day should be retitled Civil Rights Day.
No need to apologize although I appreciate your kind sentiments. It actually wasn't so rough, not nearly as bad as some MLK days in the past...usually interpreted by some as a 'free for all' day for violence and mayhem.
I won't blame King for Jackson, I don't care how close they were (something which Jackson exaggerates so he can trade on it).
Despite some high sounding rhetoric, he promoted socialism. For that, I can never support him.
There is also the resentment on my part that none of our Founders have their own day, and ALL presidents -- good and bad -- are lumped into President's Day, yet MLK has a day all to himself. One that is not merely an acknowledgement of his efforts, but a national holiday. No thanks.
Was this at Key Arena? Garfield High?
Considering the millions upon millions who have died as a direct result of Socialism. I see your point.
I have no doubt that if any of the millions who were sent to the gulags had been offered a choice of the camps or something equivalent to Bull Connor's Birmingham, they would have gleefully and enthusiastically chosen the latter.
There is also the resentment on my part that none of our Founders have their own day, and ALL presidents -- good and bad -- are lumped into President's Day, yet MLK has a day all to himself. One that is not merely an acknowledgement of his efforts, but a national holiday. No thanks.
It does seem a bit disproportionate, doesn't it?
Just curious, do you know if there's a Mahatma Gandhi Day in India, where all Government offices are closed? I honestly don't know.
I apologize, but due to patient confidentiality laws I cannot get any more specific, as this could lead to identification of the patient.
Let's just say that it was very well attended, and I felt absolutely no love from the crowd.
http://www.saalt.org/ngdos.htm
Kinda' joking, and new, but I hope this works.
Andy
This one celebrates a visionary leader who, although not perfect (and he'd be the last to claim perfection)was instrumental in ending one of the sorest blights that ever affected this country. The USA is better and stronger because of MLK.
Vermin like Jesse Jackson cannot be compared to him and shouldn't be spoken of in the same breath.
It works, and thanks....I'm not surprised to see an American site like the one you posted. I would be curious if India's government reveres Gandhi as much as many Americans seem to.
Agreed.
I agree with you totally. He was one of my heroes, too.
As the dollar continues to sink, the party will gradually come to an end as will our worship of the reverend.
BUMP
You have no RIGHT to sit-in or protest on someone else's property, contrary to the MSM's intimations otherwise. Many forget King and the civil rights bunch ignored property rights in encouraging sit-ins at lunch counters that were not open to blacks.
Desegregation set back the cause of a colorblind society a hundred years, in its incitement of hatreds and reverse discrimination. Brown was a watershed, as was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in that both meant that government had officially quit trying to let people settle things for themselves as far as racial animus was concerned.
...Martin Luther King Day was put on the calendar by politicians to remind the American Public every year how "racists" they are....(sarcasm extreme....)
I don't know either.
If I may revise and extend my comments. . .
In my younger days, I was very much opposed to the law breaking and civil disobedience. As I have gotten older (and hopefully wiser), I am less troubled by that and I even see some need for some (God, I hate to even say this) Federal involvement to break the back of the state and local government enforced discrimination against our Black citizens. But even with that being said, I am still of the belief that King and fellow travelers were, at the least, used by the communists to stir discord in this country. That King advocated socialism makes me even more convinced of it. He may have done some good for Black Americans, but I also think that he laid the groundwork for even more problems by helping to put them on the Government plantation and destroying Black families.
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