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Public Opinion Says No Day Off for MLK Day [INFOGRAPHIC]
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2012/01/16 23:04:56
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is here once again, a day to honor the iconic civil rights activist and reflect on how far we've come. But most of us will do our reflecting from the classroom or workplace. Though it's been a recognized as a federal holiday since 1983 and observed by every state since 2000, currently only about a third of employees get the day off for MLK Day. Not that they're asking for it, though. We polled SodaHeads on the holiday to find out if they thought it should be honored with a day off, and asked if there were any other holidays they'd like to see recognized.
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+7Some nerve to talk about equality when affirmative action completely reversed the situation if you cannot make the grade on your own merits you should not expect favortism because of the color of your skin. How could our politicians who have always been nothing more than lackeys for our wealthy have allowed that bill to pass, because it forces employers to have to employ a certain percentage of minorities and not just public and private corporations but the government as well. Since Affirmative Action was enacted I wonder how many Caucasions have been turned away from the better colleges, or jobs working for the government. I know for a fact that the 2 things that make it very difficult getting a job working for the federal government are Affirmative Action and unions. The vast majority of those who benefit from federal holidays are bureaucrats, I have heard that many school districts even though they do not give faculty and students the day off give the teachers a bonus for being there. Why should the majority of the taxpayers have to pay for public servants to just sit on their rearends?
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The only people that get off are some state and federal workers, and the schools...leaving working parents to find and pay some place for their kids to go while they go to work.
I definitely think it should be an observed day.
And, I don't really give a rats a__ what anyone has to say about my opinion.
Maybe American Leaders Day?
But the truth is there are many qualified Blacks, some more qualified than others holding the same positions, who wouldn't receive these positions had it not been for Affirmative Action. Is it fair for a company to hire an i.e. all White staff when over 50% of the company's clientele is i.e. Black?
And then some folks want to cry reverse discrimination without taking into consideration the entire picture; they'd rather focus on one aspect of it. And they will never see how each part impacts on all parts, for focusing on what they call this "one flaw" termed Affirmative Action.
It pisses me off to hear some folks claim Black folks are lazy and every other name that insinuates they're unworthy or do not deserve... and when they get jobs others feel they should have received, they want to cry foul play.
Laws and amendments to laws DO NOT come up or are not enforced by chance; they are written, sometimes amended, and enforced based on need or wrongs that require correcting. Otherwise people will do whatever they w...
But the truth is there are many qualified Blacks, some more qualified than others holding the same positions, who wouldn't receive these positions had it not been for Affirmative Action. Is it fair for a company to hire an i.e. all White staff when over 50% of the company's clientele is i.e. Black?
And then some folks want to cry reverse discrimination without taking into consideration the entire picture; they'd rather focus on one aspect of it. And they will never see how each part impacts on all parts, for focusing on what they call this "one flaw" termed Affirmative Action.
It pisses me off to hear some folks claim Black folks are lazy and every other name that insinuates they're unworthy or do not deserve... and when they get jobs others feel they should have received, they want to cry foul play.
Laws and amendments to laws DO NOT come up or are not enforced by chance; they are written, sometimes amended, and enforced based on need or wrongs that require correcting. Otherwise people will do whatever they want to do and get away with it. We are a country of laws and individuals who do not like laws should move to a country where they do not exist.
It's not that I asked to much from people. Sometimes people can't provide a response, because they don't have a reasonable one, so they take the easy way out by ignoring. I didn't expect a response to the question posed; it's too big of challenge.