Things that piss you off about MLK day

What makes ME mad today: I'm a teacher and therefore there is no school today, but MY BUTT has to be here for inservice.

[PM_Mama00]

I'm all for honoring people who have given great contributions to make our country a better place.

But, I've never had President's Day off. Never had Christopher Columbus day off, and as an Italian you can see that makes me super duper happy.

I was gona join a bunch of my sisters with our school to do service projects around the city, but unfortunately I get to spend my day off sick.

[RedRoseSAI]

Originally posted by CarolinaDG
In fact, I wish we'd have MORE holidays. How about we have a different day for ALL different presidents and anyone who has ever contributed to the community. Mother Theresa day? I'd go for it.

Hey, in the Chicago area, schools get a day off for Casmir Pulaski (a Polish-American Revolutionary War hero).

[sugar and spice]

I don't think I ever got president's day off of school either.

But I don't think that's particularly . . . uh, reverse-racist? Racism is based off which historical figures' birthdays give us a day off of school and work? Come on now.

And PM_Mama, let's not even get started on Christopher Columbus day. Why that guy even has a day is beyond me.

[cashmoney]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
And PM_Mama, let's not even get started on Christopher Columbus day. Why that guy even has a day is beyond me.

Yea, Phyllis, he wasnt even the one who really discovered the New World in the first place. It was the Vikings.

[cashmoney]

Originally posted by CarolinaDG
The fact of the matter is, this holiday may not be important to you but it's important to someone else. I'm Christian, so Hannukuh may not be important to me, but that doesn't mean I don't respect the fact that there are plenty of people in the world who are Jewish and DO find it important.

Yea, but thats my point....you dont see half the nation shutting down for Hannukuh. If anything, half of HollyWood would close for Hannukuh and lil'pockets of New York City. Its not that I dont respect the holiday for people, but why give one day to one man when he's not the only one who did the job? And not just that but also having a street named after him in almost every hood. Its kind of a disgrace to Dr. King himself. Have you ever been on MLK in Atlanta? Or Tampa? Or Jacksonville? The street is always full of crackheads, tricks, drug dealers in just about every city you have a MLK blvd or drive.

Originally posted by RedRoseSAI
Hey, in the Chicago area, schools get a day off for Casmir Pulaski (a Polish-American Revolutionary War hero).

In Hawaii we celebrate King Kamehameha Day in June and Prince Kuhio Day in March.

A couple of years ago, the state voted to get rid of observing Columbus/Discoverer's Day in October as a state holiday so that we could observe MLK Day in January. I think this holiday is a well deserved one, and people should take the time to learn more about the life of this man and what he did for our country.

Malls aren't closed today. They only close for Christmas, New Year's, and Thanksgiving.

Craig, yo'ure all alone with this one.

[jhujenn]

If you want all federal holidays off go to school in DC and then get a job there. At the college I attended we were off for Columbus Day. The malls aren't closed either.

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by cashmoney
And not just that but also having a street named after him in almost every hood. Its kind of a disgrace to Dr. King himself. Have you ever been on MLK in Atlanta? Or Tampa? Or Jacksonville? The street is always full of crackheads, tricks, drug dealers in just about every city you have a MLK blvd or drive.

You're generalizing.

The MLK Blvd. in Madison runs from the capitol building to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed lakeside convention center. In between, it has a number of high-rent office buildings, a few city government buildings, and definitely no crackheads.

I can't imagine we're the ONLY city in the nation with a road named after King that isn't in "the hood."

[Senusret I]

Originally posted by jhujenn
If you want all federal holidays off go to school in DC and then get a job there. At the college I attended we were off for Columbus Day. The malls aren't closed either.

To add to that....your job needs to be for the DC Public Schools -- we observe EVERYTHING and just added Emancipation Day (April 16)!

Georgetown didn't get veterans day off but I think we got everything else off, plus an Easter break in addition to SPring break.

[Lil' Hannah]

oh god

Originally posted by cashmoney
I'm sensitive to the civil rights movement. I'm all for keeping our civil liberties and giving people more rights, especially black people and american indians. Hell, I opposed the patriot act. All I'm saying is, all MLK did was strut around like a chicken and next thing we know he's got his own day. Now, half the country shuts down for him. Hell, Rosa Parks got famous for refusing to sit her ass down on a bus. Ask any public school bus driver, black people do that every day. Its just Rosa Parks, at the time, was a secretary for the NAACP. I'm not saying Dr. King wasn't a good man and wasnt marching for a nobel and just cause...he was. But what the hell did he really do other than walk around like Jesus and give sermons? He got shot and was killed, big deal. So did other civil rights leaders who dont have a day of rememberance. But since he was the first that gives him the honor of having his own holiday and none of the others who had the same unfortunate ending? C'mon, puhhhlease. Ya'll need to stop lying to yourselves......MLK and Rosa Parks didnt do anything but walk around crowing like a chicken and refuse to sit down on a bus, Jesse Jackson wont ever be president, and Barry Bonds has been on steroids for a long time now. You people need to wake up.

Craig, I've never seen you look more of an idiot than you do now.

That's probably THE most insensitive thing I've ever read here on GC.

[IrishPhiSig]

Originally posted by cashmoney
Yea, but thats my point....you dont see half the nation shutting down for Hannukuh. If anything, half of HollyWood would close for Hannukuh and lil'pockets of New York City.

I don't think any place closes for Hanukah because its a minor Jewish FESTIVAL. You celebrate after work/school. But places would close for Yom Kippur/Rosh Hashana. Sorry, big pet peeve of mine...people thinking Hannukah is the big Jewish holiday just because it falls near Christmas.

But as far as this thread....I think you're being a bit ridiculous. Its a day off from school (well I'm still on Winter break for the next two weeks) so whatever. That's cool. My dad gets to chill at home with us. MLK did quite a lot...as a white, Jewish American I find it almost insulting that you get TOed that everything closes. Give the black people some respect. White Christians have had it for long enough. Please stop whining when something little happens to you when the Jews and blacks and everyone else have gone through so much more than your people ever will. kthanksbye

[cashmoney]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
You're generalizing.

The MLK Blvd. in Madison runs from the capitol building to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed lakeside convention center. In between, it has a number of high-rent office buildings, a few city government buildings, and definitely no crackheads.

I can't imagine we're the ONLY city in the nation with a road named after King that isn't in "the hood."

Maybe I was, but you're up north....right? You guys dont have as many black people who live up there as we do in the south. And out of all those high-rent office buildings and a few city government buildings.....would you say a great % of that area is populated by black people? I'd say a very small % if any at all. Also, I was talking about ghettos with the street name. I wasnt meaning commercial districts.

[ZTAngel]

Oh Christ, Craig, I know you're not really that ignorant. I sometimes feel like you post these things because you know it'll get under people's skin.