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Posted on 01/19/2005 12:40:07 AM PST by Stoat
I am totally in favor of Inauguration Day being a Holiday as well as Election Day. Patriotism, government participation, freedom, exercising our rights publicly make for a great reason to celebrate....not MLK at the expense of another good and noble part of our culture.
bttt!
That's a very good point. Ironically, I believe the establishment of Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday has done more to cheapen the basic notion of a "national holiday" than it has done to honor the man.
Isn't it amazing how these "universal" messiahs can't redeem everyone without creating an "accursed race" of irredeemable villains?
This conservative pulls out his well-worn phonograph copy of the "I Have A Dream" speech and plays it for anyone who will listen...
There was once a tea party in Boston.....
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And, as I recall, a bit of Civil unpleasantness around 1861 that red-blooded conservatives here don't seem too upset about.
A smart conservative says "so what?" and gets his own work done.
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In the south of the 1950's? Where the Klan and Jim Crow were at their height of power? Where even the U.S. Justice Department could not guarantee that the laws of the U.S. would be enforced by local coutts? Those legal channels?
Dr. King wasn't perfect, but then again neither were Washington or Lincoln. In fact, the last perfect man got nailed to a cross 2000 years ago. But Dr. King was a leader at a time when it was very dangerous to be a leader in the black community. He was a leader when it meant that the whole force of state and local government would fall on his head for getting out of line. He took his stand and literally changed the world for blacks in this country, North and South. He should be respected for that.
And Dr. Masugi seems to forget that Lincoln and Washington lost their holidays under Richard Nixon, long before the King holiday was established.
Isn't Ghandi similar to a founding father that rested india from British control? If so, I don't think the two are comparable. It would be more comparable to have a George Washington Day than a MLK day.
my two cents.
Ivory
Michael Savage needs to take crazy pills, he's out of his mind.
But hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I suppose every black person should have just waited until the KKK was able to Tolerate their presence!
You need to shut up. You really make me sick with your ignorance.
You're right, SP. In fact, the truth about you is known by some here as well.
Or a MOTHER TERESA day?
I know this is horrible but myself and some friends go to KFC for lunch every MLK day.
The author's wrong about civil disobedience. King responded to his critics in his famous "Letter From A Birmingham Jail." He never advocated disobeying the law in general or contravening the orderly principles of society. But he did say the Christian is not obligated to obey a law that contravenes the law of God and distorts or oppresses the human personality. Citizens are duty bound to disobey a law that says you're not equal with the rest of God's Children and moreso if it is a law you had no part in making. And King emphasized that one is willing to bear punishment for breaking such a law to bring the attention of the community to the fact of its injustice. No conservative can condone anarchy but no conservative can condone injustice as well.
Go to work. Find something productive to do if you have the day off. Personally, I celebrate February 6th.
when dixie gets around to building The Hall of Southron Heroes & Martyrs, MLK will have a ROOM in the museum.
free dixie,sw
Work.
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