Posted on 01/16/2006 10:07:07 AM PST by Reagan Man
I don't think so
a unique holiday in that it hasn't been comercialized by having a big "MLK day sale" or something and also has the actual name of the person(s) being honored.
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The Black/Negro/"Afican-American"/Government "Employee(hacks)" liberals made "Dr" Martin Luther King Birthday a "Holiday" and in doing this we "lost" President Lincoln's Birthday as a national celebration. Thanks Alot LIBERAL HACKS!
Doesn't matter. We will always celebrate President Lincoln's birthday no matter what. It's what WE ALL DO PERSONALLY that counts.
President Ronald Reagan signed the MLK birthday holiday into federal law.
True.
Pres Reagan signed alot of REALLY questionable things in his 8 years.
got MLK?
I believe Dr. King was the best possible representative for the changes that were desparately needed to remedy the outrageous discrimination prevalent in this country against African Americans in the pre civil rights era.
However,if King had lived , I have no doubt he would have been a less abraisive version of Jesse Jackson-pro affirmative action,a liberal Democrat advocating huge government programs,gun control and an"anti-war"position on Iraq.
I tend to think, had MLK lived longer, he'd likely be a conservative today. I find his writings and speeches to be very inspiring. Letters from Birmingham jail are fantastic reads. His youngest daughter is an Elder in an Atlanta evangelical church. That's my say!
The MLK b-day holiday wasn't one of his mistakes. That's because Reagan wasn't a bigot or a racist, like you. Take it somewhere else.
So what PROOF do you have of my "bigotry or racistism"!? O by that way, my wife is of "Arican-American" and "Native-American" decent? So think before you type!
Technically correct...realistically, the left will never let it happen and will in fact use it as club with which to bludgeon us.
"I have no doubt he would have been a less abraisive version of Jesse Jackson-pro affirmative action,a liberal Democrat advocating huge government programs,gun control and an"anti-war"position on Iraq."
could be why AG Robert Kennedy had him and a lawyer wiretpped
Actually it has nothing to do with racism. The federal government should not, and really was not intended to, be in the business of establishing national holidays by law. Most of the holidays we 'celebrate' these days were not signed into law until the 20th century. This goes for President's Day, MLK Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., the lot of them. Get rid of mandatory national law recognizing them. Any holiday recognition clearly falls under powers of the states.
If MLK had lived, he'd today be running around calling President Bush a Nazi murderer for his policies on terrorism, he'd be demanding the release of all the terrorists in Gitmo, he'd be calling Alito a fascist who will roll back "civil rights" and "women's right to choose", and he'd be howling for quotas and reverse discrimination against whites.
There's a tendency among many conservatives to claim King as one of our own because he spoke of freedom, advocated a color blind society, and never got involved with the pro-abortion types. What they forget is that that was true of nearly EVERY left-winger in the 1960's.
Sure, they spoke of "freedom", but what did they mean? Free markets and traditional liberties? No, they meant the "freedom" to raid the treasury and do as they pleased without consequences.
They all spoke of being color blind back then, too. Liberal senators vowed to eat the entire Congressional Record if the civil rights laws they were passing led to quotas or reverse discrimination against whites. Only after these laws were solidly in place did they suddenly do a 180 degree turn. By then, King was dead, but had he been alive he'd have turned, too.
He'd likely also have jumped on the abortion bandwagon, as "Reverend" Jesse Jackson did the moment it became politically opportune to do so. Granted, I can't prove that, but I suspect it.
As for military issues, King was already on the anti-American side, supporting the pro-Communist anti-American crowd.
For that reason, plus his personal misconduct, I don't support the MLK holiday.
Yeah... too bad he was a womanizing communist dupe of a plagiarizer.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mlking.asp
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/additional_resources/articles/palimp.htm
I could say the same to you. Your original post crossed the line and sounded like racist bigotry. Especially on this day. I reminded you that Reagan signed the MLK B-day into law. You objected by taking a cheap shot at Reagan. You should respect your wifes heritage and not engage in inflammatory rhetoric.
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