Should Employees Get Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Off?

Dr.King was for the rights of all people black and white and i'm proud that a day of remembrance has been dedicated in his name.Is living in peace a controversy?

everyone should have every day off if they chose, we should just profitshare the entire energy industry pn a national if not global scale, abd utilize automation for the benefit of all

I would have rather retained Lincolns birthday.

Hell no!!! Please come up with questions like these: Should Unemployed people receive an extra payment for the day of MLK Jr? Should recipients of food stamps receive a bonus book equivalent to 200 us dollars for the feast of MLKjr? Should drug addicts receive an extra help from the government for a few doses of marijuana or heroin to celebrate the feast of MLKJr? Why don't we get instead to work according to the way Dr. JESUS CHRIST fought for freedom and civil rights before MLKjr?
When the next US president is elected, we will all be so busy enjoying the holidays that for the number of jobs he will create will be necessary to bring illegal immigrants from Mexico and Europe to fill them all up. JA!JA!JA!JA!

Real cute, but I understand wher you are coming from. A good laugh. is always good for the soul

I'm laughing right now at such ignorant.

That makes no sense. They don't get extra benefits for any other holiday so what are you saying. A day off to honor the work of a great american who really helped shape this country isn't important.

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4 day week would be better

I personally believe that all black people deserve the right to have this day off as a legal holiday because of the accomplishments that Martin Luther King did for us. We should be allowed to show our gratefullness to him if we can in some way or another. Something spectacular should be demonstrated on his special day.

Since it's okay for you to something racist (only blacks can have the day off? WTF?), let me add my own:

What is the point of blacks getting MLK day off of work, when most of them are sitting on their couch on welfare anyway?

dumb ass number! go 2 the internet and ask is there more whites then blacks on welfare, you'll see that there is more whites on welfare then blacks. i told you this dude is dumb.

So you're going by total numbers rather than percentages? LMAO. there are more whites than blacks in america. So your numbers don't explain anything.

I have a radical idea, Sandra. How about celebrating holidays based upon merit, not skin color? Are there any blacks out there who want to recognize Americans based upon their contributions to this country, or is everything always based upon skin color? If you truly wanted to have holidays based upon a person's contributions to this country, then holidays should be passed out in the order of whoever contributed the most first, then the person in second place, etc. In other words, start with President Abraham Lincoln. He doesn't even have a holiday to celebrate his birthday, and no, President's day was not founded to celebrate Lincoln's birthday. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s contribution was great, but it pales in comparison with Abraham Lincoln's. If King's contributions rank, let's say, 13th, then 12 Americans should have holidays celebrating their birthday's before him.

im not ttrying to hear your as neither. whites should of thought about merit or skin color before beat, sick dogs, hung, killed, burn down churches, killed babies, raped young African women, May grown men feel like children. Whites made it about race. Lincoln still had slaves who were done in mean ways. The way African America's were done, it should be a day for Every black person who was in Slave

I have a Dream.... Obama out of the Presidency !!!

I'm black and I think that's just stupid.

Especially since it's a federal holiday...

Federalholidays are just that.

It's a declared Holiday,Businesses and schools should be closed.

I am tired of government getting days off that the private sector do not. It is so disrespectful. If the persons being recognized for the Holiday given I can't help but feel the message has been lost. Hard work is how this country was built not on leisure.

It's a holiday and everyone should celebrate it. Everyone should honor Martin Luther Jr., he was one of the greastest men who ever lived.

I honor James Earl Ray

When you get to Hell, you'll burn like him to.

thats STUPID

it's discrimin.to other holidays...LIKE Veteran day,Presid.DAY,Lincoln birthday,how about a day set aside to TO STOP ALL ANIMAL ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION..

Absolutely. He has had as much impact on America as Washington or Lincoln. MLK represents the conscious of this nation and reminds us to live up to the ideals of freedom and justice our democracy is supposed to stand for.

Not only Martin Luther King but most other holidays too, like Presidents day, Veterans Day etc. The schools should address the contribution of MLK and the Veterans, and some Presidents on their respective days. The young learn nothing being out of school and Martin Luther King would be the 1st to attest to that. When people were yelling, "burn baby burn", Dr. King was saying, "learn baby learn". Many holidays should be consolidated. I was a teacher and always seeing a day off, then I went into real estate sales and learned how to work! Martin Luther King got shot by some nut and that turned into a holiday. If we have a holiday for Steve Jobs and everyone else there will be no learning and no production!

When then the White people get George Washingtons birthday off then I think it would be fair for Black people to get M.L.K's birthday off!

I am white and I agree, but I think both should be eliminated or consolidated. When we take Dr. King's holiday we are not espousing his ideals of work and education but honoring the nut that shot him. Future generations will go shopping on these holidays and not learn the ideals and values of these special people with a day off.

I agree and I think there should be a White Month... like February is African American month.. Give me a freakin break ...

i agree with him black people should get MLK BIRTHDAY OFF

You are not aware of Presidents day. Abraham Lincoln's birthday was celebrated, as legal holiday on February 12th. and George Washington's birthday was celebrated as a legal holiday an February 22nd. Since the holidays were so close, they were combine, to The Third Monday in the month of February and is celebrated as a legal holiday called, "
residents Day" So please be informed for many years past and present you question is without merit.

Correction, on spelling. PRESIDENT'S DAY, not residents' day

i like that..... y'all also should throw in 3 acre's and mule. How about giving each our Liberty back, or, maybe even separation will also come to be where we can have our own schools build and our own president and etc

The 53% that voted No = Employers/Managers
The 47% that voted Yes = Employees

I voted no. I work almost every night - for the government.

Some people are gluttons for punishment I suppose. Other than that there must be other reasons why you just dislike the holiday.

Unless we get off for Washington's Birthday, Columbus (and other acclaimed discoverers) Day, Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, Independence Day, Armstrong and Aldrin Day - July 21, Juneteenth, etc., we should not get Dr. MLK, Jr. Day.

Check your holidays: MLK January 16, 2012, President's day February 20 (includes George & Abe) 2012 Memorial day May 28, 2012(includes Armed force day), Flag Day June 14, 2012, Independence day always the 4th. of July, Labor day September 3, 2012 (always the first Monday in the month of September). Now check this one, schools are closed and many, many businesses on September 16, 2012 for Rosh Hashanah and again on September 25, 2012 for Yom Kippur. Columbus day will be celebrated on October 8, 2012 Veterans day will be celebrated on November 12, 2012. I hope you are aware of Thanks Giving, Christmas and New Years day.