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True, but MLK definitely meant that people would be taxed and wealth redistributed so that government could provide everyone a job or an income.
Posted on 08/07/2013 9:06:40 PM PDT by Loud Mime
What I find a little disturbing in MLK celebration is that they choose a Monday type holiday instead of using his actual birthday.
I suppose having a 3 day holiday was more important than actually celebrating on the day his was born.
They tried this nonsense with Veterans Day as a Monday Holiday and the veterans protested and wanted it to be the actual day - Nov 11 - Armistice Day - no matter what day of the week it fell on.
Independence Day - July 4 - is celebrated on the day it happens to fall on every year.
Oh, I thought they were talking about having a date with someone from Poland.
Move MLK Day to Juneteenth.
All of those ideas are great, as long as government is not responsible for providing them.
In light of the current crime statistics, change it to Miranda's Rights Day.
obama's assumption into heaven.
Brilliant idea! Let's do it!
MLK & MLK day is no different than anything else about race. Generally speaking blacks & whites do not view either in the same way.
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True, but MLK definitely meant that people would be taxed and wealth redistributed so that government could provide everyone a job or an income.
That be old school.
MLK Day is just a reason to make Blacks celebrated victims month. They get it in both January and February. cancel the day or use it to celebrate something else—We need no more victims. cancel Black History Month too—If we can not have White History Month lets get race off the calendar! let the blacks go to a non-holidays like the Irish have St. Pats day and the Mexicans Cinco de Mayo. For blacks how about Juneteenth? For Indians June 24th Custers defeat at Little Big Horn (Victory day) We could celibrate the end of the Civil War. Changes need to be made!
MLK was a communist agitator who plagarized his dissertation and was a serial womanizer. Having a “day” for him is political correct insanity. Better...have a Don’t-Be-Like-MLK day. The guy was a societal degenerate.
People tend to forget that King was Jesse Jackson's mentor in race-baiting.
Indeed. MLK is as much a figment of the MSM's spin as anything.
I could care less about the color of ones skin, but I do size someone up based on their race. Only because of what I have experienced in my life. If that make me a racist, so be it. I call it evolutionary intuition.
Let's not try to crowd them around a weekend, either. Let us just celebrate them when they happened - as we used to do in a more sane, honorable, and rational America!
It was silly making Martin Luther King's birthday a holiday in the heat of a "guilty" moment. It was done strictly for Political Correctness. King is a second rater compared to either Washington or Lincoln. Why should we no longer celebrate their birthdays and instead lump them into some phony construct like President's Day? That makes about as much sense as having a "Congress Day" or "Court Day".
We lost something historically valuable when we decided to bend to the wishes of the Politically Correct crowd and abandon historical meaning for racial politics. But isn't that the way it always is?
I must say that I'm actually quite happy we don't have a separate holiday for Lincoln. I'd be much more inclined to support one for Jefferson.
Both...and a primary explanation.
There’s lots of reasons why MLK’s birthday is a holiday, some debatable and some not. The HARD FACT is that people of many races do NOT honor his vision of people being judged by their character and not race; they use government programs, lawsuits and mob tactics to wage battles of racism against their chosen targets (guess which race?).
As long as affirmative action and these acts continue, King’s legacy is not being honored.
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