Should Employees Get Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Off?
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2012/01/06 23:17:44
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day falls on the third Monday of the year, which is January 16 this year -- right around the corner! As much as Dr. King is acclaimed for his involvement in the civil rights movement, there has long been controversy over whether or not to dedicate a holiday to his name.
There's also an issue over whether employees and students should get the day off. By 2000, all 50 states had recognized the holiday, but in 2007 just 33% of employees had the day off. Not all schools get the day off, either. Some opt to hold special courses, assemblies, or seminars in lieu of, or in addition to, classes.
Check out our MLK Day Quick Poll and voice your opinion on the ins-and-outs of the holiday. We'd love to hear from you!
There's also an issue over whether employees and students should get the day off. By 2000, all 50 states had recognized the holiday, but in 2007 just 33% of employees had the day off. Not all schools get the day off, either. Some opt to hold special courses, assemblies, or seminars in lieu of, or in addition to, classes.
Check out our MLK Day Quick Poll and voice your opinion on the ins-and-outs of the holiday. We'd love to hear from you!
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The Catalyst 2012/01/07 08:54:26Yes























Meanwhile, Lincoln and Washington even had their birthdays rolled into one "Presidents' Day" which is on neither's birthday. What was that all about?
I worked many years after the government in its misguided wisdom also arbitrarily ruled that many holidays would be observed on Monday. I worked on a weekly newspaper where taking Monday off only made the work week difficult, where Friday would have been dandy. So we took off no Monday holidays . . . were given instead extra vacation days, about 5 a year.
I mean let's take a realistic look at what you've put down. 88% of you population is white... 5% is black, yet these black people commit more than half the crime in your area that is a sure impossability unless the only thing that 5% does is crime. This none of them have jobs, none of them contribute to the community in anyway. Let's tthink about this: Using Arbitrary numbers here 1000 people in your community 880 are white and 50 would be black let's just say there are 100 crimes committed in you community in a year this would basically state that each of these 50 black p...
I mean let's take a realistic look at what you've put down. 88% of you population is white... 5% is black, yet these black people commit more than half the crime in your area that is a sure impossability unless the only thing that 5% does is crime. This none of them have jobs, none of them contribute to the community in anyway. Let's tthink about this: Using Arbitrary numbers here 1000 people in your community 880 are white and 50 would be black let's just say there are 100 crimes committed in you community in a year this would basically state that each of these 50 black people were responsible for at leats one crime each right... No what it really shows in an ineptitude on a grand scale. It means your police force is useless. It means the justice system doesn't work in your area and it means you people have seriously sorry method of security on any level.
Wake up man
In my town in 2010.. whites constituted 88.47% and blacks constituted 7.27%. Crime still at 56% and that's as of 2010. Don't care if you don't believe it.
Again I see you didn’t read my early post. I grew up in the ghetto and I grew out of the ghetto as did many of us. You need to stop watching TV and listening to other idiots and you might learn something. I don’t blame white, just like I don’t blame people. Nor do I deflect blame. Yet, I blame society for allowing ignorance such as yours to still run rampant. And as far as your stupid statement about driving through a ghetto or a trailer park, the likeliness of someone robbing you or murdering you is all about the same depending on where you are. You’ve never been profiled because of the color of ...
Again I see you didn’t read my early post. I grew up in the ghetto and I grew out of the ghetto as did many of us. You need to stop watching TV and listening to other idiots and you might learn something. I don’t blame white, just like I don’t blame people. Nor do I deflect blame. Yet, I blame society for allowing ignorance such as yours to still run rampant. And as far as your stupid statement about driving through a ghetto or a trailer park, the likeliness of someone robbing you or murdering you is all about the same depending on where you are. You’ve never been profiled because of the color of skin, you’ve never been pulled over for suspicious behavior when you’re driving the speed limit, or an dangerous lane change and no one is on the road but you and the cop and he’s in front of you and the list goes on and on.
And then you want to talk about raping people, robbing people, murdering people… Your history is chalk full. There is not a single culture that the white man has touched that he hasn’t raped, maimed, scarred and damn near committed genocide. I’m so tired of you people talking that go back to Africa crap also… Why don’t you go back to Europe. Oh you can’t because if you trace your heritage back to mayflower you were all a bunch of criminals and undesirables as it is. If you were immigrant after that time Go home anyway. And so you know my half Native American and half African America… So I have more claim here than you do… Your people stole a country and when you couldn’t dominate them you tried to kill them all. If not for my people you would have never survived here. Check your history books. You didn’t know how to till the land or plant the proper foods to replenish the soil. You didn’t know how to survive the winters here. Yet the same people who met you with open arms, you cheated, murdered and raped.
Then you brought slaves over here, because your people were too lazy to do the work themselves. You raped these people, robbed them of their culture and identities and now you want to complain about our diluted blood lines. You’re just jealous of us because we embody everything you wish you could be. Every summer you bastards are laying trying to get tan… but you don’t see black folks laying in the winter trying to get a fade…
I was truly done with you… but I’ll be damned if I let you sit there and act as if you have no fault. I know there is crime in the black community, I also know that my people commit atrocities. I’ll tell you this though we learned it from you and yours… people just like you. And if I promise you, I woke up one morning and realized I was thinking like you I’d kill myelf… You’re disgusting and with that ladies and gentlemen I’m done… Honestly
Not to diminish your loss, but the things dzz spoke of were common place and happened to Blacks on a daily basis for hundreds of years. Again, there's been a lot of hurt on both sides, but the reason for a King Day is becasue the brutality was systemic in America's past and King Day is a reminder of what we have overcome.