Why is MLK day a holiday?

RASTAMAN · #21 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ROLLBAMA_ROLL

So here it goes; my yearly rant, Why do we get this silly Holiday? This day that we now celebrate is uncalled for. Most schools can only afford to take a limited number of holidays each year due to funding issues. Our country has decided that it is more important for us to honor Martin Luther King Jr. than all of our Presidents. President's day is also Washington's birthday. So I ask you the question, which one is more important; a racist person named Martin Luther King Jr.or the father of this great country and the rest of our presidents? I hope you can make the educated decision. This holiday is one of only four holidays that honor an individual. Jesus Christ, Christopher Columbus, George Washington and MLK. MLK doesn't belong in this category. I just wonder if in 50 years will we be forced to celebrate Jesse Jackson's birthday, I hope not. But if we don't stand up for what is right we will once again be forced to celebrate a worthless leader. Most people will tells us how great this person was, when history will tell us otherwise. I think a lot of people feel this way but are too afraid to stand up for what is right. So my question for you is what has Martin Luther King Jr. done to deserve the honor that our country bestows on him every year?

It figures this comment would come from someone who lives in a 3rd world back ward state like Bama. You are lucky Alabama was allowed back in the union after your state got its ASS kicked in the Civil war. Why not make George Wallace's Birthday a day off or a Bull Connor's Birthday day off. No wait, let's make Lynchings a National Holiday.

What does history have to say about the careers, politics, and race relations of Bull Connor and George Wallace?

Speaking of history......race relations in Alabama will always bear the ugly scar of cross burnings, apartthied, and of Course Terrorism and Terrorist no thanks to the COWARDLY KLU KLUX "INBRED" KLAN.

Face it, MLK saved Alabama from its racisist self and folks like you are still pissed about it.

RASTAMAN · #22 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe_King

There is many underlying reason why it is not widely accepted ...

One of the least important issues of it is that it is ANOTHER Federal day off !

Well dam us all to hell b/c there's a federal day off!!!!! Can't appear to lazy before the eyes of the Corporate Slave drivers and the ass kissing workers who just hate days off so as to apease their Corporate Pimps.

cat's meow · #23 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 11:34 PM

European countries get far mor days off than we do...why is this a problem?

My favorite Wallace quote (the worst of the worst)...this is what MLK was fighting against.

"I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
George C. Wallace

crowonapost · #24 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ROLLBAMA_ROLL

So here it goes; my yearly rant, Why do we get this silly Holiday? This day that we now celebrate is uncalled for. Most schools can only afford to take a limited number of holidays each year due to funding issues. Our country has decided that it is more important for us to honor Martin Luther King Jr. than all of our Presidents. President's day is also Washington's birthday. So I ask you the question, which one is more important; a racist person named Martin Luther King Jr.or the father of this great country and the rest of our presidents? I hope you can make the educated decision. This holiday is one of only four holidays that honor an individual. Jesus Christ, Christopher Columbus, George Washington and MLK. MLK doesn't belong in this category. I just wonder if in 50 years will we be forced to celebrate Jesse Jackson's birthday, I hope not. But if we don't stand up for what is right we will once again be forced to celebrate a worthless leader. Most people will tells us how great this person was, when history will tell us otherwise. I think a lot of people feel this way but are too afraid to stand up for what is right. So my question for you is what has Martin Luther King Jr. done to deserve the honor that our country bestows on him every year?

A little thing I find interesting is that almost every city has an MLK street or boulevard.

The answer is self evident if you listen from the heart. If you listen to his speeches they move you in a way that is beyond words. They transcend time. He spoke to the very foundations of what it mean to be an American.

Kix when you made that small minded comment of appeasement you actually nullified everything about a follower of Jesus you proclaim to be.

Appeasement no.

Liberate is what he spoke unambiguously.

MLK is worthy of a holiday to contemplate what he was talking about & too for all time.
He was an American who spoke to those fundamental truths that make up the spirit of America.

As to his flaws as a man. Welcome to the human race.
No one is perfect in this physical form. The only one who came close was Jesus & yet he still died.
Luckily there was a disappearance.....
For the rest of us we can do works greater as Jesus proclaimed when we follow his way as a man like MLK. A preacher of the gospel in the best sense, regardless of our flaws because they were forgiven already were they not? & there was NO compromise in MLK's word because it was in alignment with Christ.

That is why he is celebrated with a day of contemplation & streets that we can drive on in every city.
To remind us in our Rush to remember why....

Prisoner1 · #25 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Areyouforreal

I whole heartedly agree.
Problem is we celebrate this one man's day for the good he did while in reality he was a hypocrit.

If having human weaknesses and being a hypocrit were reasons for denying a person's greatness, there would only be one great person in the history of mankind! For all have sinned in the eyes of God.

oceanbreeze · #26 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by crowonapost

A little thing I find interesting is that almost every city has an MLK street or boulevard.

The answer is self evident if you listen from the heart. If you listen to his speeches they move you in a way that is beyond words. They transcend time. He spoke to the very foundations of what it mean to be an American.

Kix when you made that small minded comment of appeasement you actually nullified everything about a follower of Jesus you proclaim to be.

Appeasement no.

Liberate is what he spoke unambiguously.

MLK is worthy of a holiday to contemplate what he was talking about & too for all time.
He was an American who spoke to those fundamental truths that make up the spirit of America.

As to his flaws as a man. Welcome to the human race.
No one is perfect in this physical form. The only one who came close was Jesus & yet he still died.
Luckily there was a disappearance.....
For the rest of us we can do works greater as Jesus proclaimed when we follow his way as a man like MLK. A preacher of the gospel in the best sense, regardless of our flaws because they were forgiven already were they not? & there was NO compromise in MLK's word because it was in alignment with Christ.

That is why he is celebrated with a day of contemplation & streets that we can drive on in every city.
To remind us in our Rush to remember why....

Thank you for stating it so eloquently.

rob · #27 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 11:25 AM

I think that even though MLK was human, he at the very least understood that this country that as long a there was descrimation in this country, we as a nation would never rise to be a country of freedom for everyone. I am mself enjoy federal holidays and I will be glad to celebrate MLK birthday every year. As a speaker and a leader he is in the company of some very fine Americans, some of who as noted here were slave owners. I don't think that his womanizing should be held against him, when you look at what his movement accomplished.

heyjude122 · #28 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Spitty

George Washington was a hemp growing slave owner, Columbus was a syphillis carrying murderer of Native people, Jesus? never heard of him, I know a Mexican fellow named Jesus.

We honor Washington for what he did for this country, not for his personal life, which I agree sucked. He also was a gold digger, and I've always been amused that the 'Father of our country' was apparently sterile. Was that why they put that big penis up in DC to honor him?
Colombus Day should not be celebrated at all. The man was a murdering b*****d.
I don't believe Jesus even lived, and if he did, he wouldn't have been born on Dec.25. And if he never lived, there goes Easter.
But not celebrating those holidays would be a big blow to the economy, and the only god we really have, according to Reagan is greed.

cat's meow · #29 (**permalink**) 01-21-2007, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by crowonapost

The answer is self evident if you listen from the heart. If you listen to his speeches they move you in a way that is beyond words. They transcend time. He spoke to the very foundations of what it mean to be an American.

Liberate is what he spoke unambiguously.

MLK is worthy of a holiday to contemplate what he was talking about & too for all time.
He was an American who spoke to those fundamental truths that make up the spirit of America.

As to his flaws as a man. Welcome to the human race.
No one is perfect in this physical form. The only one who came close was Jesus & yet he still died.
Luckily there was a disappearance.....
For the rest of us we can do works greater as Jesus proclaimed when we follow his way as a man like MLK. A preacher of the gospel in the best sense, regardless of our flaws because they were forgiven already were they not? & there was NO compromise in MLK's word because it was in alignment with Christ.

Thank you for these comments. Anyone can think what they want about me and what I think...but MLK holds a very special place in my heart, his writing and message has always hit a very emotional chord for me. His speeches are like the word of Christ embodied; MLK truly loved every man and woman on Earth. I don't like when his memory is manipulated or tarnished by anyone of any race.

heyjude122 · #30 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 12:26 AM

I agree. MLK should be honored in this country for what he did. His personal life was none of our business. When we start demanding perfect heroes, we will have none.
MLK did more for the non-whites in America than anyone else. He helped them recover their self esteem, and develop dignity.