Things that piss you off about MLK day

[cashmoney]

Originally posted by IrishPhiSig
that is absolutely ridiculous, AOPi girl. Yeah, he is controversial, he wants controversy...so I'm giving it to him.

I am actually quite hesitant to keep visiting these boards. Everyone thinks they're better than everyone else here. Everyone loves to tell people what to do. Everyone loves to get offended. Everyone loves to tell the new kids on the block that we're too new to talk about this or that. How about all of you take a deep breath and....

GET OVER YOURSELVES

Welcome to my world on GC, eventually you'll have a few people who'll think you're alright. I had 3/4 of GC pissed at me at one point.

[cashmoney]

Originally posted by RUgreek
Here's a weird and most likely insensitive question to pose. I know the term colored is offensive, but back in elementary school we learned that the color black is the absent of color, so why didn't call them non-colored. It's a really stupid and pointless question, but this post made me think of stupid things...

I dont know, but the answer lies in the same reason people say clear is a color when its really not.

[AGDee]

Out of the mouths of babes:

My 8 year old son "Why do they call me white when I'm kind of pinkish peach?"

My daughter, on her first day of kindergarten: "There's a girl in my class who is beautiful! Her skin is chocolate! I wish mine was like that."

My son, again, probably when he was 6 "I don't know why they call some people black. They aren't black, they're brown. And I really hate that whole slavery thing. That was just wrong!"

[Tom Earp]

How do they make those HUMONGUS FONTS?

I think All of The Monday Holidays be discontenued as really screws things up for everyone!

Only ones who enjoy these "Holidays" is School Kids, Banks, Post Office, and Govt. Offices.

The rest of us have to work for a living to keep our noses above water.

cashmoney, I can understand where you are coming from about not getting a payment. If I was late, there is a penality.!!!!

There have been many great people who made this country and MLK is just one of them.

If who ever wrote Medger Evens, it is Evers.

To make a Individual Important in a Life time is to have done something that is important to be of a betterment of Humanity.

[preciousjeni]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
Why don't you explain to the studio audience exactly how it's a "well-cloaked hate site?"

I'm referring to the fact that the site owners make a special effort to claim that it is not a racist site and the fact that the site owners claim to get numerous emails in support of the site, when the site is clearly opening the gate for people to come on board and make fun of Japanese people. This site very recently came to my attention through some very unhappy people.

"well-cloaked" simply means that it is not blatant and people take the site as a joke when, unfortunately, the site serves to desensitize its unsuspecting viewers to its negative mission.

I ask, why create a site like this in the first place? What is its purpose if not to put down?

Do you disagree, Munchkin03, or have I taken it too seriously (as it is HIGHLY offensive to me as well as others like me)?

ETA: Should I have also mentioned the same tired and tragic justification the site owners give? I put it in the same category as "Well, I have a friend that's [fill in an ethnicity], so it's ok."

[RUgreek]

Originally posted by cashmoney
I dont know, but the answer lies in the same reason people say clear is a color when its really not.

Very random, but that reminded me of clear pepsi, remember that worthless product? I never knew clear was considered a color. Then again I always thought school buses were more orange than yellow. Maybe I'm just going color blind now....

[alfuzzxi]

Here is something that I found interesting. It once was Lee/Jackson/King day and now many people no longer want to celebrate Lee and Jackson because they were in the confederacy. What about the good things that they contributed, and if we are going to look at their negative qualities why don't we be realistic and look at the negative qualities of MLK as well. I found this article very interesting because it gives information that our text books choose to exclude.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/...p?storyid=1974

[cashmoney]

Originally posted by alfuzzxi
Here is something that I found interesting. It once was Lee/Jackson/King day and now many people no longer want to celebrate Lee and Jackson because they were in the confederacy. What about the good things that they contributed, and if we are going to look at their negative qualities why don't we be realistic and look at the negative qualities of MLK as well. I found this article very interesting because it gives information that our text books choose to exclude.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/...p?storyid=1974

Why celebrate Lee and Jackson when they were nothing more than rebels?

[preciousjeni]

There's always more to it though. There are some cities (states even?) that refuse to recognize MLK day and are sure to include Lee to blatantly downplay the significance. But I do see your point.

ETA: I just thoroughly read the article. That is one angry dude!

[alfuzzxi]

Originally posted by cashmoney
Why celebrate Lee and Jackson when they were nothing more than rebels?

This is a forward that I recieved that puts it very nicely what these "rebels" did to deserve recognition.

Certificate of Recognition

By virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution in the Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, there is hereby officially recognized:

LEE-JACKSON DAY

WHEREAS, Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
are
native Virginians, born in the Old Dominion and serving our great nation and
Commonwealth as educators, leaders and military strategists; and

WHEREAS, Lee served in the United States Army for more than three
decades until he left his position to serve as Commander in Chief of
Virginia's military forces and as Commander of the Army of Northern
Virginia; and

WHEREAS, Jackson taught philosophy and military tactics as a professor
at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington for nearly a decade before
serving briefly in the United States Army and later joining the Confederate
Army to fight for his native Virginia; and

WHEREAS, Lee dedicated his life after the Civil War to reforming higher
education in the South by serving as President of Washington College, now
Washington & Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, and he greatly
increased the school's funding and expanded the curriculum to create an
atmosphere most conducive to learning for you men of both Southern and
Northern heritage; and

WHEREAS, Jackson's leadership and bravery led his troops to several
improbable victories against opposition forces much larger than his own, and
Jackson's inspired "Stonewall Brigade" fought alongside General Lee's
troops
toward another victory even after their leader was fatally wounded on the
second day of the Battle of Chancellorsville; and

WHEREAS, it is fitting to recognize Generals Lee and Jackson as two of
our nation's most notable militiary strategists, as beloved leaders among
their troops, as pioneers in the fields of higher education and as faithful
and dedicated Virginians;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mark R. Warner, do hereby recognize January 14, 2005,
as LEE-JACKSON DAY in the COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, and I call this
observance to the attention of all our citizens.

(Signed)
Mark R. Warner
Governor

[hottytoddy]

I have only read a few posts on this thread. It seems that some people are a little too sensitive. People get offended so easily. Relax.

Not to get off subject but:
It's kinda like how all these people said that because my school was called "Ole Miss" and our mascot was the rebels that we are racist or something. OK...whatever. I can't beleive that a mascot would offend someone. I'm pretty sure that all of the African-American football players at Ole Miss knew that the mascot was the rebels when they came to school.

Cashmoney: I know you aren't being racist...you were just frustrated because the bank was closed on a Monday.

[starang21]

you're a dumbfuck. for real.

[starang21]

Originally posted by kddani
say what?

this is the first time i've even thought of it in awhile, but it's always appeared to me to be a bunch of mistranslated things

sounds like what abercrombie and fitch said when they printed those shirt disparaging the asian people a few years ago.


"i thought they would like it."