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Most aren’t sold Martin Luther King Jr holiday is important
Washington Examiner ^ | January 17, 2023 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 01/17/2023 6:49:29 AM PST by billorites

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To: billorites

I’m offended — by both the sculpture and the holiday.


41 posted on 01/17/2023 7:22:42 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: DoodleBob

“Monday, June 19 Juneteenth 2023”

Don’t get pissed when Kwanzaa makes that list.....because its coming.


42 posted on 01/17/2023 7:24:35 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: EEGator

I think we are refered to as “crackers” now......but I could be wrong. 😏


43 posted on 01/17/2023 7:26:04 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Presidents' Day is patriarchal and foments toxic masculinity. Just like Colombus Day is now Indigenous Person's Day in some progressive areas, we need to rebrand this holiday.

Why not First Ladys' Day?

Or Federal Bureaucrats Day, to celebrate the hundreds of thousands of workers who make our lives better?

Oooh...I know...Department of the Interior day, since that Department head is locked in the Safe Room during SOTU?

Inquiring minds want to know.

44 posted on 01/17/2023 7:30:21 AM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: dfwgator
Arizona lost a Super Bowl because they didn’t support MLK Holiday.

Actually, Arizona did support MLK Jr. Day. There were two ballot measures, one to replace Columbus Day with MLK Jr. Day, and the other to retain Columbus Day while also establishing MLK Jr. Day. People tended to vote for one measure or the other but not for both, so neither passed. The Yes votes combined, though, were a clear majority. Classic split-the-vote politics.

45 posted on 01/17/2023 7:30:40 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: V_TWIN

Maybe it’s regional.

Whatever slang racist name whites are called, it doesn’t matter.
Because we’re white…

Language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvEEE2S5D10


46 posted on 01/17/2023 7:31:16 AM PST by EEGator
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To: billorites

Major league wide spread Negro Fatigue will do this.


47 posted on 01/17/2023 7:32:14 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: billorites

They didn’t include another option: NOT IMPORTANT. That one gets my vote.

Neither is black history month unless there is a white guys history month.

The “sculpture”? I thought it was a guy with his head up his rectum.


48 posted on 01/17/2023 7:34:33 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: billorites
Maybe it is because the enemedia is as ridiculous as this statue of the giant zucchini.
49 posted on 01/17/2023 7:35:50 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: billorites

I think the man had good ideas but only got a national holiday because he was murdered.


50 posted on 01/17/2023 7:36:11 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: billorites

MLK Day ranks right up there with Curried Chicken Day.


51 posted on 01/17/2023 7:37:26 AM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: dfwgator

And Nation Nothing Day! Which says a lot ..or, maybe nothing.


52 posted on 01/17/2023 7:38:40 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: dfwgator

And National Nothing Day! Which says a lot ..or, maybe nothing.


53 posted on 01/17/2023 7:39:22 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: joma89

By a racist democrat.


54 posted on 01/17/2023 7:40:18 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: DoodleBob

“Presidents’ Day is patriarchal and foments toxic masculinity.”

And that’s a great thing!


55 posted on 01/17/2023 7:40:22 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: DoodleBob

I’ve seen quite a few toxic dykes along the way.
Wearing oversized work boots, tattoos and chain smoking.
More macho than most men..or at least exaggerated manliness.
Can we end that?


56 posted on 01/17/2023 7:43:48 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Then again...


57 posted on 01/17/2023 7:44:37 AM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

OMG. Thanks for that - LOL!

Brimming with estrogen, those two.


58 posted on 01/17/2023 7:49:06 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: SecondAmendment
Both men were politicians first and foremost, and I believe if both were alive today, they would be running around with gay pride flags, defending infanticide without limits, demanding an end to fossil fuels, and being in lock step with every other contemporary anti-American leftist.

JFK and MLK shared one trait which led both to their status as icons and to their shared experience of being assassinated. That trait was the ability to receive the support of all the factions in their "party."

JFK had the support of every branch of Democrats at the time, from the Reaganesque faction (which eventually left the party) through the unionists like HHH and the Southern racists like LBJ, all the way over to the McCarthy/McGovern social-libs. After JFK's death, LBJ became President, but the main battle for supremacy in the party was between the HHH unionists and the social-libs: the libs would have won in '68 if RFK hadn't been assassinated, but they won the party in '72 with McGovern, and (not counting a short stint with Carter) have been running the party ever since.

By the same token, MLK was the only black leader in American history to be able to join under his leadership the Booker-T-Washington black conservatives, the WEB-DuBois black social-libs, and the Black-Muslim-Panther-Us-UHURU revolutionaries. After MLK's death, the black conservatives lost all standing in the civil rights movement, which became a vehicle for the social-libs, who have used the violence of the revolutionaries when they have found it useful, and have convinced the non-black population that they and they alone represent the total history of the civil rights movement--including wearing the mantle of MLK. The Bookerite conservatives, like the Reagan Democrats, ended up in the GOP, where they still don't get the credit they deserve.

59 posted on 01/17/2023 7:58:14 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: billorites
My company used to end the fiscal year on Jan 31. The MLK "holiday" fell in January. Because of the timing, if you didn't take the holiday, you could not "defer" it for later in the year. Use it or lose it. The FY is now pegged to Dec 31, so people who are not enamored of MLK can defer the holiday for another date prior to Dec 31.

I finally tested negative for COVID on Saturday, so I took the holiday as an opportunity to continue the rest/recovery.

60 posted on 01/17/2023 8:09:58 AM PST by Myrddin
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