What the hayeee? Not one single HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KIND DAY thread?

[moonbogg]

I didn't get the day off, so fuck that guy.

 

[irishScott]

I think it is kind of funny that MLK day is the only black holiday and it is at the coldest time of the year. I spend the winter hibernating.

Indeed. They should hold it during the summer to capitalize on the watermelon season.

/This is a joke, internet.

 

[bshole]

Indeed. They should hold it during the summer to capitalize on the watermelon season.

/This is a joke, internet.

Holy fuck, that was openly and unapologetically racist.

 

[irishScott]

Holy fuck, that was openly and unapologetically racist.

Only racists can't take racist jokes.

 

[hal2kilo]

Virginia came up with the bestest worstest compromise ever.

What an obscenity. I grew up in NOVO. I remember seeing the Robert E. Lee Birthday on the calendar. I guess confiscating his property to bury the dead from the civil war and all subsequent wars did not make a point to the state of Virginia.

 

[irishScott]

What an obscenity. I grew up in NOVO. I remember seeing the Robert E. Lee Birthday on the calendar. I guess confiscating his property to bury the dead from the civil war and all subsequent wars did not make a point to the state of Virginia.

Lee actually wasn't that bad a guy, slavery wise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee#Lee.27s_views_on_slavery

That "point" was just the Union compensating for its lack of competent military leadership during the early war.

 

[cubby1223]

Instead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day being a celebration that we are all the same and can work and live in peace together, it instead is a day for people to protest and disrupt other people's lives.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=martin+luther+king+day+protest

It's that special day of the year for modern African-Americans to amplify their complaints that the U.S. is a horrible racist country oppressing them at every turn.

 

[bshole]

It's that special day of the year for modern African-Americans to amplify their complaints that the U.S. is a horrible racist country oppressing them at every turn.

I see just as much bitching by whites about blacks....

 

[smackababy]

So, I celebrate people's birthday on, you know, their actual birthday. MLK Jr. was born January 15th.

 

[bshole]

So, I celebrate people's birthday on, you know, their actual birthday. MLK Jr. was born January 15th.

It is celebrated on a Monday for federal holiday purposes.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Instead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day being a celebration that we are all the same and can work and live in peace together, it instead is a day for people to protest and disrupt other people's lives.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=martin+luther+king+day+protest

It's that special day of the year for modern African-Americans to amplify their complaints that the U.S. is a horrible racist country oppressing them at every turn.

How dare people sully the name of Martin Luther King Jr. by engaging in peaceful protests?

 

[HomerJS]

Which only goes to show that MLK was a fool. When did God smote Iraq or Iran or Syria or North Korea or Burma (Campuchea) or pretty much every other shit-hole country that was or is a billion times more horrible than America? That's right, never.

Maybe God has taken a couple of years off. Are you bitching because a nation hasn't been smoted since Japan?

 

[Pipeline 1010]

Which only goes to show that MLK was a fool. When did God smote Iraq or Iran or Syria or North Korea or Burma (Campuchea) or pretty much every other shit-hole country that was or is a billion times more horrible than America? That's right, never.

I see your point. Perhaps America HAS been chosen by God to be a divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. Perhaps this viewpoint is not arrogant.

 

[ivwshane]

How dare people sully the name of Martin Luther King Jr. by engaging in peaceful protests?

I'm pretty sure he doesn't get why MLK is a holiday in the first place and therefore doesn't understand why people would protest on his birthday.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Holy fuck, that was openly and unapologetically racist.

MLK's daughter believes candles are evil.

 

[irishScott]

Which only goes to show that MLK was a fool. When did God smote Iraq or Iran or Syria or North Korea or Burma (Campuchea) or pretty much every other shit-hole country that was or is a billion times more horrible than America? That's right, never.

Huh? I'd say all of the those countries have been very well "smoted" and match his words perfectly. None of them have any real autonomy, and they're all shitholes.

 

[cubby1223]

I'm pretty sure he doesn't get why MLK is a holiday in the first place and therefore doesn't understand why people would protest on his birthday.

http://www.thekingcenter.org/meaning-king-holiday

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebrates the life and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing to America. We commemorate as well the timeless values he taught us through his example — the values of courage, truth, justice, compassion, dignity, humility and service that so radiantly defined Dr. King’s character and empowered his leadership. On this holiday, we commemorate the universal, unconditional love, forgiveness and nonviolence that empowered his revolutionary spirit.
...
On this day we commemorate Dr. King’s great dream of a vibrant, multiracial nation united in justice, peace and reconciliation; a nation that has a place at the table for children of every race and room at the inn for every needy child. We are called on this holiday, not merely to honor, but to celebrate the values of equality, tolerance and interracial sister and brotherhood he so compellingly expressed in his great dream for America.

But that doesn't mean that's what people are celebrating on this day, now does it? Got any more insults to dish out, Mr. I-Need-To-Be-Different-From-You?

We can either come together over our similarities, or we can be angry over our differences. I prefer the former, but that's just me being an ignorant racist, right?

 

[HomerJS]

Instead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day being a celebration that we are all the same and can work and live in peace together, it instead is a day for people to protest and disrupt other people's lives.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=martin+luther+king+day+protest

It's that special day of the year for modern African-Americans to amplify their complaints that the U.S. is a horrible racist country oppressing them at every turn.

Yeah how dare those dark people speak up. They should just be happy they live in "Merica" and STFU!

 

[boomerang]

It's that special day of the year for modern African-Americans to amplify their complaints that the U.S. is a horrible racist country oppressing them at every turn.

Barack Obama, our first black President (I'm not going to count Clinton) would agree. So would Eric Holder, a ton of football and basketball players and maybe even Oprah, to name just a few.

Edit: I overlooked the Democrat Party as a whole. They would very enthusiastically agree that this is an oppressing, racist nation. They would also add that they are not any part of all that no-siree.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Instead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day being a celebration that we are all the same and can work and live in peace together, it instead is a day for people to protest and disrupt other people's lives.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=martin+luther+king+day+protest

It's that special day of the year for modern African-Americans to amplify their complaints that the U.S. is a horrible racist country oppressing them at every turn.

 

[smackababy]

Barack Obama, our first black President (I'm not going to count Clinton) would agree. So would Eric Holder, a ton of football and basketball players and maybe even Oprah, to name just a few.

Edit: I overlooked the Democrat Party as a whole. They would very enthusiastically agree that this is an oppressing, racist nation. They would also add that they are not any part of all that no-siree.

It is funny just how oppressed the US is, especially compared to all those other "free nations" out in the world. I mean, being profiled as a criminal because you look like the majority of other criminals must be real tough. I can imagine all those people in North Korea saying "wow, black folks sure got it bad!".

 

[TheSlamma]

the John McCain forums!

 

[Atomic Playboy]

It is funny just how oppressed the US is, especially compared to all those other "free nations" out in the world. I mean, being profiled as a criminal because you look like the majority of other criminals must be real tough. I can imagine all those people in North Korea saying "wow, black folks sure got it bad!".

As long as we have it better than North Korea, no one is allowed to complain about anything trivial, like potentially being shot to death by agents of the state over their skin color. It's what MLK would have wanted.

 

[ivwshane]

http://www.thekingcenter.org/meaning-king-holiday


But that doesn't mean that's what people are celebrating on this day, now does it? Got any more insults to dish out, Mr. I-Need-To-Be-Different-From-You?

We can either come together over our similarities, or we can be angry over our differences. I prefer the former, but that's just me being an ignorant racist, right?

Like I said, you don't get it, and you probably never will.

 

[kage69]

I actually just found out about this over the weekend. I have a friend who works for the state here in Georgia and he told me he gets off Robert E Lee day and Confederate Memorial Day. He told us that when he asked his predecessor why they get off Robert E Lee day the response was "well they get off their guy's day". I sometimes forget how racist the southern state I live in can be, and then I get a gut check reminder like that.

I discovered that while rushing the Kappa Alpha fraternity as a freshman. Lee actually founded the frat (which bothered me a little). What really bothered me was listening to the older frat guys talk about Lee's birthday like it was the 4th of July, New's Years Eve and St. Paddy's all rolled into one. The overly solemn and grim suggestion to skip everything in order to attend, no matter what, was the confirmation I needed that not only was this frat shit not for me, to hell with these rednecks. I won't get into other reasons why I use that term.

One of the 'higher ups' took it 'personally', and when he saw me at a smaller gathering on campus days later, tried to guilt me back into rushing. My replies of "No thanks" and "Why are you still talking to me?" didn't have the effect I wanted. At a friends suggestion I enticed a lovely half black, half Vietnamese hottie from NOLA to come chill on my lap. That seemed to work! We didn't skip out to be alone, we didn't even make out, but after that party I went the next 4 years without hearing a single word uttered by anyone in KA.

I don't miss that kind of shit from the South at all. I miss the BBQ, the beaches, the fishing...aaaaand that's about it.