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Today is Washington's real birthday. I began the following diatribe as an answer to a comment elsewhere. The longer I worked on it, the more worked up and pissed off I became. Finally I decided the jerk I wrote it for wasn't worthy of the effort. I hope the jerks here are worthy.
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I'll be called a racist for my opinion, but I think the "Presidents Day" idea is a bad idea.
It KILLED the names of possibly the two best American Presidents. They share a day, with no names mentioned, but MARTIN LUTHER KING, gets a day to himself, with his name in tact, right out front.
Hey, American history re-writers, if Washington had lost the Revolutionary War, King wouldn't BE King. If Washington had won the Revolutionary War, but Lincoln had lost the Civil War, or hadn't freed the slaves, King wouldn't BE King. That aside, there are many people, both black and white, who fought for equal rights, before King, so that he could BE King. We should be honoring King, I truly believe that. But not at the expense of remembering by name two other great and important Americans.
Yes King was a great leader, but he was the focal point at that time, he was NOT the entire movement. He became the face of the fight for equal rights. That said, we should remember ALL the people who fought for equality of the races, not just King. Perhaps we should have had IMHO, a Civil Rights Awareness Day. On that day, make it a point of speaking of all these heroes, not just King.
Because of moves like bundling Lincoln and Washington, we're losing, or may have already lost, our national identity, and heritage. Simply because the guys who we honored were white? No, but how many people under 25 know WHO the Presidents are, that get honored on "Presidents Day"? You’d have to be pretty dense to miss just who MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY was honoring.
What happened to Columbus Day? It’s completely gone. Except for that Native American guy who goes to claim Verona or Venice in the name of Indigenous Americans!! He pops up every few years. Columbus gets lost in that shuffle.
When did you last hear anything positive about Veteran's Day? Last Veterans Day, I heard one story about WWI, and a dozen about Viet Nam, PTSD, Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. Most of us who served, including minorities, did so honorably and without being harmed or harming any of the innocent people of the world.
Don’t even mention Flag Day. Why have a day, to honor a flag, with a stupid pledge that includes the word G-O-D? Isn’t he white? We're not really sure, but some of the flag's stripes are white.
We still get Thanksgiving and Christmas. But if we didn't the economy of the country would be worse than it already is. Killing Thanksgiving means no Black Friday. But wait, that Friday is black, does that make it doubly good? Relax, it’s a joke. If Tracy Morgan or Chris Rock had said that you’d be howling.
Christmas is about gifts and trees. It’s no longer about, or tied to, our Judeo-Christian background. We aren’t a nation divined by or endowed with basic rights from a supreme being. Christmas by Intelligent Design sounds fairly hollow. Jesus, who was "white" remember, has been removed from Christmas. We are One Nation Under Visa, Master Card, iPhone, Guitar Hero and Celtics vs Lakers on NBC!!
Mangers have been proven, by the ACLU, to be just too divisive.
I don't begrudge King his day, I don't begrudge the African-American community his, and their, gains. But his gains were everyone’s gains. He fought for minority rights, not just Negro rights. Do we ever hear that? When do we get Caesar Chavez Day, to cover the freedom fights for Mexican-Americans? And what do we shove out of the way for Chavez Day, to keep the “correct” number of Federal and Bank Holidays? I just don't see how pushing Washington and Lincoln into some nameless, faceless semi-celebration, raises all of us up as Equal Americans.
And THAT was Kings life work remember.
Equality. Not superiority.
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Speaking about special days, some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 61 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard, crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico. This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies and organizations.
However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:
Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
See what happens when aliens breed with sheep? I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you.
Let me beat hlf to it and say, "man, you are a racist honky"! The difference being, i say it in jest.
Steve, unless i'm wrong, what you're talking about is the on-going (and successful) trend to not only remove God from our society, but to make Whites the minority. In fact, it's well under way in many places. As i said the other day in another post, have you noticed the increase in the number of black faces you see on TV since last Nov? Obviously, TV-land is doing their part.
Personally, i'm still waiting for someone to detail for me the "actual" accomplishments of MLK. I'm well aware of the fact that he was a slick-talking black guy, (sound familiar?) but what else did he actually do? I think Bull Conners did more to put the spotlight on the civil rights movement than MLK did. And if that's the case, why don't we have a Bull Conners Day?
When is Johnny Walker's birthday?
Everyday, just like Jim Bean and Jack Daniels
Spider,
I don't care how many minority / non-white faces, Black Princesses, Ethiopian place kickers, Guatemalan Tortilla Kings show up on TV or in movies. I don't think that everyone with a Spanish accent on TV or in movies should be a drug dealer or gang banger. We played that out with black faces 20 years ago. Now there are black good guys, bad guys, cops, lawyers, mechanics, you name it. Until the messiah was inaugurated, media looked somewhat like life. We were all there. But with a twist. In fiction, everyone's racial indentity was fair game.
In reality, the white guys are evil, they cause all the problems, they secretly seek to subjugate the brown and yellow skinned people. According to the MSM and Hollyweird crowd.
A Million Man March was a celebration, Promise Keepers, was white power. Christmas, a 2000 year old, multi-cultural, all inclusive holiday celebrated around the world, is pushed aside as divisive and an attempt by Christians to rule the country. Kwanza, a made up, 30 year old, African American ONLY Holiday, is OK, it's fine. It's allowed on the court house lawn, just keep whitey's manger out of sight.
All white people are not evil, all black people don't tap dance. But all white people CAN BE portrayed that way and better not bitch about it, the racist bastards.
I'm just sick of the dual standard.
This is a good article about Racial Preferences.
That's a great article C dash Bug. And all too true. Thanks for the link.
My mother's parents came here in the early 1900's from Italy. They had to learn English, they had to learn American culture, they had to assimilate to survive. There was no line for Italian Only, no Italian translator at the bank, city hall or insurance company. There were no Dago Only scholarships. No NAA-Italian-P. No one from the gub'ment was at Ellis Island to help European immigrants.
But they managed to survive. How did they do it!!? Were they better, smarter, stronger than the newcomer or minority people now? I don't think so.
They were just more self reliant.
Jesus, who was "white" remember, has been removed from Christmas.
Sorry to nit pick, but Jesus was not white. Jesus was a Jew! I'm thinking His looks did not make Him stand out in a crowd of middle easterners. What made Him stand out in a crowd was who He was, what He said, and what He did.
This isn't an effort to remove "white" men from the roles of federal holidays. it was an effort to cut back on the number of federal holidays, and nothing more. Lincoln and Washington's birthdays were close together, and so they coalesced the two separate holidays into one, and renamed it so that it would be more approriate and easier to say than "the middle point between Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays".
No grand conspiracy here, IMHO, just a move for efficiency.
CFC -
However, the "accepted" image of Jesus is suspiciously white looking. Probably because it was created by Renaissance artists in Europe.
Goober, thats a logical explaination, but when you take all the other related things going on into consideration, a bit naive.
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CFC,
that's why I used the "quotes" around white. I know he was a Jew, but he wasn't African or Black. To most African-Americans that makes you white.
Goob,
the move to MLK Day and Presidents Day was done to add MLK to the list. But the move away from having ALL THREE was because they didn't want employers howling about another paid holiday, and didn't want Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackass, et al, yelling about no real celebration for MLK.
That's the actual history of those moves. But as I said, we no longer celebrate many of the "old" federal holidays, why we had to jam these two into one, is lost on me. Other than my previous statements about re-writing history and killing WASP culture.
Why is there a federal law that says every city must have at least one road named for King?
the move to MLK Day and Presidents Day was done to add MLK to the list. But the move away from having ALL THREE was because they didn't want employers howling about another paid holiday,
Isn't that what I just said?
Once they added MLK Day, they had one too many federal holidays. Since there were three now, closely spaced in January, they put two of them together.
No grand conspiracy.
"The most successful conspiracies are the ones that go unnoticed"... Nietzsche
Why is there a federal law that says every city must have at least one road named for King?
Excellent question! And, why is that road more often located in the most dangerous part of town?
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