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- From: chrisda@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (David Christensen)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: PC lives
- Message-ID: <1honahINNiuo@leela.CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 05:22:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.201041.6710@s1.gov> <1hni7rINNk83@uwm.edu>
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- In article <1hni7rINNk83@uwm.edu> stalker@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
- >From article <1992Dec22.201041.6710@s1.gov>, by lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich):
- >> In article <BznJMK.Hqs@ns1.nodak.edu> green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:
- >>
- >>>How do you explain the furor over the MLK holiday, when MLK doesn't really
- >>>rate a holiday? (He's the only, single person with his own holiday, Jefferson,
- >>>Lincoln, Washington, etc. either don't have holiday's or share them. I don't
- >>>deny the good MLK did, but to single him out is, in effect, saying he is the
- >>>greatest American that has ever lived.)
- And what exactly is the furor over the MLK holiday? Sure, there was the whole
- flap over Arizona voting not to have one, but that seems long dead now. Here,
- in Oregon, we do celebrate King's birthday every year and I have yet to learn
- of a furor about it.
-
- >>
- >> Who would _you_ prefer to honor? The founder(s) of the Ku Klux Klan?
- >>
- >Again, what the hell are you talking about? Are you saying that if we dont
- >happen to want to celebrate MLK's b-day, we are rasicts?? What are you saying?
- >This person was only trying to point out that we celebrate MLK's b-day, but
- >we dont have a certain holiday for any other person. Geez....
-
- Last I checked, we also celebrate the birthdays of Lincoln, Washington, and
- Columbus, Independence day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the big Christian
- holidays.
-
- I wouldn't know how to compare the importance of MLK with, say, Washington.
- But King was leader (and martyr) in perhaps our country's most important
- social overhaul of the century. I think that's pretty important, so I'm
- glad to have a national holiday on MLK's birthday. I don't see what it
- has to do with PC. Why paint folks who support a MLK day with such a
- broad brush if you don't like it yourself?
-
- ---
- David Christensen
-