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Martin Luther King Workday We asking all our workers which day they wanna be off, MLK or on Chinese New Year when we give them 3 days off so most saying ok they taking Chinese New Year. But I not understanding why MLK is honored with George Washington unless getting killed is requirement for memorial day like maybe should have one for Abraham Lincoln and for John Kennedy and other American presidents. But how about one for Asian civil rights workers who got killed too? I know is hard these days for lots of peoples and really we not try to discriminate against black peoples but you know sometimes is best to have the work place where everyone feeling comfortable so maybe some peoples thinking we discriminating against them but we not. Besides why black people not starting their own business or investing in own community or helping their own peoples instead of harrasing other community to hiring them and getting mad when we open business in their area? We open warehouse before in SF near black area and after a few months Rainbow Coalition demanding we donate money to them cause we not hiring any black peoples. This is call extortion so we asking SF City Hall for help but they say is only asking for the and is not criminal act. But anyway I see that MLK is mostly the holiday for the government people cause lots of business in this are is still open today. In California there is the Cesar Chavez day but that is not a school holiday and the students on that day learning all about labor history and peaceful means to demonstrating and forging the political alliance to get things done. This is called empowerment to the people. But the MLK is a school holiday and not learning nothing at all about MLK. In facts most only think of him a civil rights leader but after civil rights law passing he starting branching out to other things and he starting to really make lots of his own followers angry so he starting losing support for his own cause. Besides he is not really a good role model for the cause if you knowing his background and his strong desire to making love to white woman then how you can have him be role model for the . Is ok to say, hey be like MLK and do adultery is fine? Marriage vows not meaning anything? Hey, you strong black man so you can do anything you want to any woman? So anyway, that is my point of view and Happy Chinese New Years. VICKY |
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1/22/2008 1:04 am |
Judging me any way you wants to. I just saying that if a person is to be honored then we need to knowing the whole story about him cause if what he doing to white woman is because he hating white people then why honor him? Imagine he haveing the access to Asian woman and doing that and saying Asian peoples and we suppose to be ignoring that? Just saying need to know the good, the bad, and the ugly like old cowboy movie title.
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1/21/2008 11:56 pm |
Wow Vicky.... you really know how to choose the right day to touch a chord amongst a segment of the population. But let the debate begin. Lets start with your last point.... that's quite an edgy comment you made there. In terms of politically correctness this one reaaaallllly pails. He is not a good model?! You think kids look up to him because of his sex life? Because of what brand of coffee he drink? Please, I doubt that very much. People look up to him because of what he has done for the betterment of society. People look up to him because of he stood up and became the voice of injustice. It wasn't because of all these superfluous things that you pointed out. Martin Luther King was a human being, and as human beings we are not fault proof. I'm not going to argue about his infidelities because I'm not sure about it, but also because that doesn't matter given the scope of the issue. I person's worth is a sum of all the things he/she has done in their lifetime. They may not all be positive, but the end sum was greatly greater. In that respect I totally do not support your view in this as it is very narrow sighted. One sad thing I think that is quite concerning is that MLK isn't a hard set holiday where everyone gets a day off. It's not the day off that I'm concerned about, it's more like that in comparison to other american holidays being celebrated I think MLK is quite significant in terms of american history and should deserve the same respect in that sort of sense. I'm not sure why your views are as such, especially for today (I could kinda guess a few reasons). But sometimes you gotta step back and realize what you're really saying and put yourself in the other shoe. True he is figure head for the Black Civil Rights Movement but lots of other peoples were involved. He just get lucky to get caught up in the movement cause I thinking of Rosa Parks a brave woman or the Mississippi Freedom Riders or the ones sitting at the department store cafeteria counters asking for the service. But there is also Asians asking for civil rights then too but is not too big public debate on that. Remember Japanese in concentration camps or the Chinese not able to freely travel back to China and bring wife to USA or Asian Indian is not classified caucasian but is called other. So all these other peoples also fighting for civil right. So perhaps it should be called Civil Rights Day to recognize all kinds of civil rights struggles in USA. Most youngsters today can remember him saying "I have a dream" but not rememering the rest. And most peoples off on the holiday are government and bank workers, not the common mans so is not really a real holiday just another three day weekend for some peoples and students. As for my pointing out his negative side is just a point to saying that MLK was not a saint since sometimes is difficult to overlook the fact that we cannot just judging a man for one action but sometimes if is to be the role model then must look at the complete man and all of his actions. But is true, just trying to get a good conversation going. VICKY
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