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Well, some of the points are well taken, but think of the other holidays that we take and all we do is lounge around all day? How many of us truly commemorate days like Veteran's Day or Memorial Day? On these days do you attend tributes, visit the graves sites of fallen soldiers? Or so you sit at home lounging or go to the mall? On the 4th of July, so you celebrate the revolutionary war and its meaning or do you simply see it as a time to get together and barbeque without a single thought to why it is even a holiday to begin with.
My point is MLK Day (to me) deserves the same respect as any other holidays, regardless as to what some people think INDIVIDUALS do or should be doing on this day...whether it be sleep, attend an MLK program, go shopping or whatever. I just feel like, if we (AfAm) give folks an inch on something small (which I think is usually used as a smolescreen), they will take a mile on something important.
Granted, compared larger issues such as poverty, healthcare, etc. it does seem to be a drop in the bucket, but do not knock this holiday just because SOME people do not observe it as you THINK they should.
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