Why is MLK day a holiday?

ROLLBAMA_ROLL · #1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 01:36 AM

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?

cat's meow · #2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 01:53 AM

Equate these two men and it may give you more reason for the holiday.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a famous leader of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, and a Baptist minister. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races). On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Dr. King often called for personal responsibility in fostering world peace.[2] King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C..

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer and perfector of Satyagraha—the resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known in India and across the world as Mahatma Gandhi.

A British-educated lawyer, Gandhi first employed his ideas of peaceful civil disobedience in the Indian community's struggle for civil rights in South Africa. Upon his return to India, he organized poor farmers and labourers to protest against oppressive taxation and widespread discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for the alleviation of the poverty, for the liberation of women, for brotherhood amongst differing religions and ethnicities, for an end to untouchability and caste discrimination, and for the economic self-sufficiency of the nation, but above all for Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in the disobedience of the salt tax on the 400 kilometre (248 miles) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and in an open call for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years on numerous occasions in both South Africa and India.

Still Dizzy · #3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 06:13 AM

Actually I celebrate James Earl Ray's birthday.

oceanbreeze · #4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 07:06 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?

Please read the history books. We celebrate MLK every year. Obviously you haven't heard that they want on MLK on the dime or penny in 2010 and have tried repeatedly to have put on he $20.

Areyouforreal · #5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by cat's meow

Equate these two men and it may give you more reason for the holiday.

This will give you a reason NOT to celebrate it.

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One of King's closest friends, Rev. Ralph Abernathy acknowledges in his autobiography that King had a "weakness for women" and indulged in extramarital affairs. The Bible calls those "extramarital affairs" ADULTERY! "Reverend?" I think not. Yet, tragically, professed "Christian" African Americans still reverence a shameless adulterer. King lived in open abominable adultery and made no apologies for it. He was no better than openly homosexual entertainer Elton John. No immoral Communist should have a national holiday celebrated in honor of him. This is a clear indication of how apostate America has become.

It is widely known that King was a womanizing adulterer. Under the order of U. S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, the FBI wired King's offices, and hotel rooms from 1963 to 1968. These tapes notably records his transactions with communist agents, but also wild interracial sex orgies which included acts of perversion. King's aids would use tax exempt money donated to his southern Christian Leadership conference to hire White prostitutes to perform sexual acts with him. King often would use two prostitute at the same time. These shocking tapes were ordered sealed for 50 years by U.S. Federal Judge John Smith Jr. on January 31, 1977. In other words we will not be able to learn all the gory details until the year 2027. some 90 congressmen, led by the late rep. Larry McDonald, urged Congress to find out what was on these tapes before they approved the disgraceful King Holiday Bill. A cowardly and spineless Congress voted 338 to 90 approving the King Holiday.

Still, many have been able to learn some of the shocking incidents recorded in the King tapes. Washington's old Willard Hotel was the scene of King forcing White women to drink "black Russian" and performing sexual acts with him. In Las Vegas King's aids paid $100 each to prostitutes to join him in orgies. In New York city King got drunk and threatened a young White girl working for civil rights to submit to his strange sexual tastes or he would jump from the 13th floor window. She succumbed to prove to loyalty to King. In Norway, King was nude when stopped by police while chasing a woman down a hotel corridor. In Los Angeles a dentist supporter of King was outraged when he discovered his wife engaged in weird sexual acts with the civil rights leader. King was forced to flee the city after the dentist threatened to kill him. This escapade was taped on February 20, 1968. The following April someone else would shoot King. Is this the kind of man we want to hold up to our children to be honored as a national hero?

It has been well-documented that King was a serial adulterer and womanizer. Here is an account of just one night—the night before his assassination—as recounted in Ralph Abernathy’s 1989 autobiography, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down. (Abernathy was a close friend of King’s and was with him that night).

* King gave a rousing speech (“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”);
* King then had dinner with a woman afterward and remained with her till 1 AM
* King came back to his motel to spend the night with a second woman.
* In the early morning hours a third woman came looking for King and became angry when she found the bed in the room he shared with Abernathy unoccupied.
* When King reappeared, he argued with woman #3 and wound up knocking her across the bed.

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The life story of Martin Luther King is shocking and disgraceful from beginning to end. He was born with the name Michael King on Jan. 15, 1929. In 1935 his preacher father, "Daddy" King, decided to name himself after the great Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He announced to his congregation that henceforth he was to be called Martin Luther King and his son Martin Luther King, Jr. "Daddy" King never bothered to have this act legalized in court. Thus, his son's real name is Michael King! The holiday should actually be called "Michael" King Day!

It was not some "right-winger" who had King's office and hotel rooms bugged. This order was signed by then U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy on Oct. 10, 1963. Evidence proved that King was under the direct orders of Soviet spies and financed by the Communist Party. The Kennedy tapings continued for 5 years and also developed shocking revelations regarding King's sexual practices.

African American, Bayard Rustin is a former organizer for the Young Communist League. He spent 60 days in a California jail on a 1953 conviction for performing lewd homosexual acts in public. He also served 28 months in prison for draft evasion. Today Rustin is paid by Jewish organizations for use of his name as a "signer" of ads urging "Black-Jewish Unity." He was King's secretary and advisor from 1956 to 1960. During this period Rustin attended the National Convention of the Communist Party in 1957 as an "honored observer." King called him a "a brilliant, efficient, and dedicated organizer." It was Rustin who introduced King to a Soviet spy named Stanley D. Levison. He was a New York Lawyer and vice-president of the N.Y. Council of the American Jewish Congress. Levison's job was to launder the $1million subsidy Soviet Russia gave to finance the U.S. Communist Party. Levison proved important financial, organizational and public relations services for King. After King's death his wife, Coretta Scott King described Levison's role as, "always working in the background, his contribution has been indispensable." Levison wrote an obituary for King and described America as a "nation tenaciously racist... sick with violence...and corrosive with alienation. The civil rights liberation struggle is the most positive and rewarding area of work anyone could experience."

The money which the Soviet Union funneled to Levison came from a Jew named Isidore G. Needleman. He was a KGB secret police agent who fronted as an officer of AMTORG, the trading company in New York City which buys U.S. goods for shipment to Russia. There are so many Jews in the Communist Party the FBI hired two Jewish brothers, Morris Childs and Jack Childs as spies planned inside the Communist Party. For 30 years, Morris Childs was formerly a member of the National Committee of the Communist party and once served as editor of the Daily Worker. Childs reported that after the death of the Jew William Weiner, who was treasurer of the Communist Party, it was Stanley Levison who took over this vital post.

In 1945 the International Labor Defense and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties merged with the Marxist inspired National Negro Congress to form the Civil Rights Congress (CRC). The CRC was led by an open black Communist lawyer by the name of William L. Patterson who defended minority hoodlums and left wing radicals. King knew, respected, and worked with Communists including members of the Communist Party USA. He was an admirer of Ben Davis, a fellow native of Atlanta who was elected "the first Communist Councilman from Harlem." He certainly admired William L. Patterson, a Communist leader nicknamed "Mr. Civil Rights."

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolve...jr-exposed.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/825242/posts

sour_claw · #6 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 07:36 AM

The day is celebrated to remind one group of people how horribly another group of people once treated it. In doing so, it reminds the 1st group that revenge is owed and thus further divides the nation by dwelling on the injustices of our forefathers.

This is just my opinion on the social ramifications even if they were not intentional. It just keeps us pissed at each other- like when one brings up an old but sensitive issue with a spouse or friend. Rarely does anything constructive come from it. Who knows, just a thought.

oceanbreeze · #7 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 07:38 AM

Real; no man or woman is perfect. Read the history books.

http://members.aol.com/klove01/dreamsp.htm

Areyouforreal · #8 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ladyofmts

Real; no man or woman is perfect. Read the history books.

http://members.aol.com/klove01/dreamsp.htm

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.

oceanbreeze · #9 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 07:59 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.

All men and women are hypocrits in some else's eyes.

Back in the mid 1990's my mother in law worked for the Baltimore, MD, social security office. Out of an office of 20, there were only 3 white people, my MIL being one of them. The supervisor wanted everyone to write a short essay on how a black person influenced their lives. My MIL informed her supervisor she would not par take in it. Yes, it does goes overboard. But, if you ever lived in the Deep South, MLK has a huge impact on many lives.

Areyouforreal · #10 (**permalink**) 01-18-2007, 08:04 AM

Well I can see on this that we disagree then.
I just personally do not think that MLK day should be a bigger day then Presidents day.