Dazz, it really pains me to tell you how offensive I find your post — and also incorrect.
I didn’t say anything when you posted so callously elsewhere about dancing in the restaurant the night Martin Luther King was shot, but I have to speak now.
First of all, neither Lincoln’s nor Franklin’s …. nor some mysterious other president’s…. birthday has ever been a Federal holiday. Absolutely no holiday was “lost” to celebrate King’s…
Besides, Federal holidays only apply to Federal facilities.
Other holidays are set by the states.
Lincoln’s birthday probably disappeared for you when you moved to Arizona, which doesn’t observe it.
The list of FEDERAL holidays includes only two birthdays — MLK’s and George Washington’s…
The Founding Fathers were rabble-rousers, and without them we’d never have formed a new country.
Do you think they should have kept quiet too?
Or do you mean Cesar Chavez… whose birthday is NOT a Federal holiday, and is celebrated in only three states…. one of which is…you guessed it — ARIZONA!!
Chavez was a brave man, without whom grape workers would still be dying.
I never registered voters in the south, but I marched for civil rights in California…and I went to Delano, CA, in 1967.I saw the migrant camps, and the children out in the hot fields because there was no place to leave them.The pay was so low, way below minimum wage, with no chance of affording a motel or decent food, that only starving immigrants would do it.And they were LEGAL immigrants. Chavez fought strongly against illegal immigration, to protect them. In fact his position on that was far right of my own.But he’s still a hero to me, as is Martin Luther King, who, like most of us, had a few personal flaws, but was an inspiration nonetheless. Unless you think think schools should still be segregated, or 8 year-olds should work in textile mills,you have to think about what made those abuses stop.Slavery, Jim Crow laws, even rule by foreign powers, don’t simply disappear without some brave people speaking out.
Right there with you, Mikie! Thank you!
Dazz, it really pains me to tell you how offensive I find your post — and also incorrect.
I didn’t say anything when you posted so callously elsewhere about dancing in the restaurant the night Martin Luther King was shot, but I have to speak now.
First of all, neither Lincoln’s nor Franklin’s …. nor some mysterious other president’s…. birthday has ever been a Federal holiday. Absolutely no holiday was “lost” to celebrate King’s…
Besides, Federal holidays only apply to Federal facilities.
Other holidays are set by the states.
Lincoln’s birthday probably disappeared for you when you moved to Arizona, which doesn’t observe it.
The list of FEDERAL holidays includes only two birthdays — MLK’s and George Washington’s…
The Founding Fathers were rabble-rousers, and without them we’d never have formed a new country.
Do you think they should have kept quiet too?
Or do you mean Cesar Chavez… whose birthday is NOT a Federal holiday, and is celebrated in only three states…. one of which is…you guessed it — ARIZONA!!
Chavez was a brave man, without whom grape workers would still be dying.
I never registered voters in the south, but I marched for civil rights in California…and I went to Delano, CA, in 1967.I saw the migrant camps, and the children out in the hot fields because there was no place to leave them.The pay was so low, way below minimum wage, with no chance of affording a motel or decent food, that only starving immigrants would do it.And they were LEGAL immigrants. Chavez fought strongly against illegal immigration, to protect them. In fact his position on that was far right of my own.But he’s still a hero to me, as is Martin Luther King, who, like most of us, had a few personal flaws, but was an inspiration nonetheless. Unless you think think schools should still be segregated, or 8 year-olds should work in textile mills,you have to think about what made those abuses stop.Slavery, Jim Crow laws, even rule by foreign powers, don’t simply disappear without some brave people speaking out.