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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
I realize that's a provocative title, but let's face it, as things stand, the third Monday of January would be better used to celebrate grandmothers or our beloved pets. By devoting a national holiday to Rev. King, we're only highlighting the abyss that exists between his hope that we begin judging one another by our character rather than by our skin color and that inconvenient thing called reality.
As we saw during the entire Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman brouhaha, the majority of blacks see everything in terms of black and white. And why wouldn't they when their so-called leaders, including the man in the Oval Office and the fellow heading up the Justice Department, see America in those same myopic terms?
Recently, when the white students at Georgia State University decided to start a White Student Union, judging by the cries of outrage from the usual suspects, you would have thought the Klan was back burning crosses in the middle of the night.
But why is it racist when white students do what black students have been doing for decades? At GSU, the racial breakdown is split nearly 50-50 between whites and blacks, so it's not even as if there's only a tiny handful of blacks who feel they have to cluster together, the way American tourist groups do in foreign countries.
Besides black student unions, we have black dorms, black lunch areas and even black graduations, not because whites are discriminating against blacks, but because blacks don't object to segregation so long as they're the ones doing it.
Imagine the outcry if Caucasian members of the House formed a Congressional White Caucus. But the Congressional Black Caucus has been around for a long time. And the members are so bigoted that when Stephen Cohen, who is white but represents Tennessee's 9th congressional district, which is 59% black and only 36% white, applied for membership in the CBC, he was -- how else can I say it? -- blackballed.
In order to honor and promote their heritage and culture, many ethnic Americans form societies. There are those for Poles, Italians, Armenians, Chinese and, for all I know, even Canadians looking to preserve dullness. But racial groups are generally frowned upon in civilized circles. The mere thought of them conjures up the likes of Nazis, the Klan and the Aryan Nation. But once again, blacks think they should be the exception.
I just can't help thinking that at a point when racism has nearly vanished from the hearts of white Americans, it has taken hold like a giant parasite in the soul of black America. That whirring sound you hear is Martin Luther King spinning in his grave.
Speaking of which, people who keep calling for Eric Holder's dismissal are really beginning to bug me. It seems to me that if your steak arrives burnt and your baked potato arrives raw, you don't blame the waiter; you blame the chef. That's not to say that Holder isn't a lousy waiter. But firing the waiter isn't going to improve the disasters taking place in the kitchen.
As for the chef, he has said he's very disappointed in Russia because they've given political asylum to Edward Snowden. I, for one, say he's got his nerve. After all, he's the punk who leaned over to President Medvedev and told him to tell his master, Vladimir Putin, that (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) he'd be a lot more flexible after he was re-elected.
So, why is anyone surprised that Putin decided to find out just how far a more flexible Obama was willing to bend over in order to accommodate Mother Russia?
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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