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good. columbus was responsible for the chaos and conquest of the native americans. he was no hero. MLK is a much more worthy heo who fought for a cause that endures today.
I agree.
At my last job (in CA) we got Cesar Chavez Day off but not Columbus Day.
Interestingly, there is a growing current of thought among radical black scholars that MLK Day is a problem, because by celebrating the things MLK did and said in 1963 we ignore his campaign for economic justice in 1967-8, and obfuscate the continuing inequalities in American society.
Regarding MLK, in the energetic language of Michael Eric Dyson, “we have sanitized his ideas…twisted his identity…(and) ceded control of his image to a range of factions that include the right (and) the federal government and its holiday” (emphasis in original).
Michael E. Dyson, I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr., ix-x (New York: The Free Press, 2000).
In this light, it is exactly because of this:
that we have MLK Day. MLK Day is not threatening, it's just empty feel-good rhetoric about equality. So while MLK may have stood for much more than that, MLK Day stands for nothing more than that.
We don't have many legal U.S. Holidays that honor people. In fact, I can only think of two now...MLK Day & Presidents Day. I understand the need and proclamation to honor a black leader, such as MLK. But now that we have a black president, can't he, as the highest held black official now fill that need and be represented with all Presidents, regardless of race and color?
Besides...MLK day just comes way too close to all these other days we have off (Christmas, New Year's and Presidents Day).
Chicagoans have a day off in March, it's Pulaski day, celebrated thoughout the state of Illinois. Let's have one more day off added to celebrate this Great Polish man! http://www.cardfountain.com/holiday_...ulaski-day.php
Because MLK deserves his own holiday, so hes gonna keep it. Maybe to you they look the same, but Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. are actually different people.
Ask for a national election...why not let the congress and house vote, and they can argue for years to come, because we all know most don't get along....everyone thinks "they" are correct....yes like kindergarden children...
Ask for a national election...why not let the congress and house vote, and they can argue for years to come, because we all know most don't get along....everyone thinks "they" are correct....yes like kindergarden children...
Congress already did approve MLK day as a holiday. Obama is not recognized in any way other then being POTUS on POTUS day. There is no comparison of the days or the people.
We used to get Columbus Day off...until MLK Day came along. My company took away the Columbus Day holiday (and I believe that even the stock exchange is open that day) and gave us MLK Day off instead.
On Christmas...most honor the birth of...consumerism.
That becomes an issue with your company and how they allocate holidays. It is not part of a national agenda and isn't impacted by Obama becoming President.
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