Posted on 01/17/2023 6:49:29 AM PST by billorites
Washington and Lincoln were relegated to “Presidents’ Day”.
I confess I don’t understand the demands that schools be closed on MLK day or for that matter the stock market—well, I do understand—this day is important and everyone must bend the knee to it—don’t you dare ignore it!
I still celebrate Washington birthday and Lincoln birthday. You will too if you do not want to lose your history and culture
Q: What does MLK mean to Americans today?
A: Ugly sculptures, and a street name in every city where it’s unsafe to drive after dark.
Screw him, he brought the US more misery than LBJ. Wait, they worked hand in latex, up the puppets torso, to bring us closer to Communism. Forced bussing, welfare so that black women could sex up any and all comers, and not have to worry about a man at home. Of course it leaked over to quite a few whites and Messicans too. Thanks MLK and LBJ, the team that brought us to bankruptcy.
That whole “content of character” thing undermines the prevalent victimhood narrative. They can’t have that.
Why not celebrate the official end of slavery on the date it happened? Is it to commemorate how lazy blacks are, that they took a few months to figure out what it meant?
I know, it was a delay, but it was a delay in Texas, not in the South where MOST of the black fellas lived.
More like 50 years ago. 1972 was a very good year, we finally got the Democrats out of the White House.
OTOH, the DS reared its head and took out its second President in 10 years.
Mandela was a grinning black supremacist idiot.
And we saw how they fought back, soon afterwards.
The NFL lost a really good fan in that process also. They drove the Woke bus more than once.
“Robert Edward Lee, (born January 19, 1807)”. Just say’n.
No he got it cause he black
Many polls are just the propagandists measuring the effectiveness of their efforts, so they can set their rates for the next quarter.
MLK was one in a line of people dating back last century that made money on race baiting. Him being killed made him a deity like the Kennedys otherwise he would be forgotten.
MLK had 2 hookers in the motel room at the time or the night before he was killed.
Jesse Jackson was also in the room as was Rev. Samuel Kyles and Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young.
“Martin Luther King Jr. spent part of the night before his assassination with two women and fought with a third, according to the memoirs of the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, his best friend and chief aide.”
“In an ensuing argument, King shouted at the woman and “knocked her across the bed,” Abernathy wrote.” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-11-mn-354-story.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41871956
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Booker T. Washington
“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
Booker T. Washington, My Larger Education
“Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.”
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery
“My experience is that people who call themselves “The Intellectuals” understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that, if these men could have gone into the South and taken up and become interested in some practical work which would have brought them in touch with people and things, the whole world would have looked very different to them. Bad as conditions might have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was being made, they would have taken a more hopeful view of the situation.”
Booker T. Washington
Yep, his elevation was the beginning of White Guilt - elevating Blacks for all the wrong reasons.
Just another excuse for gov’t, banks etc to get a day off. Worthless crap.
Only purpose is to give federal employees another paid holiday, with the added benefit of placating black activists.
I don’t care what day the choose to be the official holiday to use to celebrate it.
Whether it be July 9th, which is when the 14th amendment was ratified, or on June 19th, when the last slaves were freed in Texas, doesn’t matter to me.
Reality is the emancipation proclamation itself didn’t actually free anyone... but that’s another story entirely. WV and MD were both slave states and the Proclamation made sure not only include folks living in states currently in revolt.
However, a Federal holiday in recognition of the ending of slavery, certainly is a day worthy of recognition.
MLK was an important person historically to be sure, but I don’t think he rates anywhere near Lincoln and Washington, who were the only people to have federal holidays in their name.
Maybe its time to Dump MLK Day— Like Lee’s Day—it has out lived its purpose. We don’t have a JFK Day? We have June teenth now—no need for this.
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