Patronizing holidays.

Go to work to prove to the world your disdain for a holiday celebrating a coloured man. I trust that you also hate President's Day, as it also celebrates Roosevelt, Carter and Clinton - men unworthy of celebration.

MLK is important enough that you understand what he did, in a time when doing it proved to be signing his own death warrant.

Isn't that alone worthy of some recognition?

Nah, he was black. Fuck him.

All true, my love, but I was there when MLK was a wasted piece of shit in most people's minds. In fact, one of my perfessers shared a room with MLK in college, and spilled the beans. Whats stunning is, blacks have no other people to celebrate, MLK gets it all.
 
Seriously, bros, did none of you pick up the OP's intent?
That's even more hillarious…
 
I don't know what organ of Ish's is blacker, his heart or his liver.

Oh gosh, I said they were black, now he'll run off and try to take them out himself.
 
Holidays declared for the sole purpose of sucking up to some constituency or another.
In a slightly related manner:

I can only imagine the confusion of some kids from the Communist Block after 1989. Before that they were indoctrinated into 'communism is good'. But after 1989 they witnessed statues being destroyed and smearing of the image of their former idols.
 
Ah, Query to the rescue in less than thirty minutes, well within bro response guidelines.

Everyone with half a brain knows it's a bait thread -- #### comes in to pat Ishtard on the back for making a cleaver bait thread. Rejoice!
 
Holidays declared for the sole purpose of sucking up to some constituency or another.

Today is one of those holidays, Columbus Day is the other. Neither of those gentlemen deserve a national holiday in their name.

Starting with Columbus, "Discoverer of America." How ludicrous, how can you 'discover' a place already occupied by other people? He never set foot on the North American continent and the honor of being the first European to set foot in the America's goes to some as yet unnamed Viking. Is there an "Olaf the Discoverer Day" somewhere in our future? If so, find a month that doesn't already have a national holiday, March perhaps, and that's where it will be planted.

As far as MLK is concerned, tireless worker to end segregation that he was, he hardly rises to the level of having a national holiday named in his honor. If there is any man of color that deserves that honor it would be Fredrick Douglas. Douglas was a better orator and a better writer. While MLK worked with a relatively large group of individuals, Douglas worked alone. The sole person of color that worked tirelessly to emancipate the slaves.

Overall I'm not in favor of having ANY national holiday named after a single individual. Americans do not recognize royalty or the titles thereof beyond matters of diplomatic protocol. We do not raise individuals to demigod like status either. Rename the holiday "Civil Rights Day," or something of the sort.

Ishmael
You leave no doubt in your ignorance old man frfr
 
Hashtag in a nutshell ...

(Sorry that I inadvertently targeted you with this, tho. You and a few other posters from this thread were never mean to me.)
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