Monday, January 16, 2006
MLK Day
Wasn't it Martin Luthor King Day just a few months ago? I dunno, some holidays seem to roll around twice as many times as other days. This is the only American holiday that was foisted on us through extortion. It isn't so much that the NAACP used threats of boycotts against any state that did not want to recognize this date as a holiday (well, that's a bit of it). It's that the NAACP and self-appointed black leaders have perverted his dream. But, I've already talked about that.
If you have an afternoon to spare and you want to know what it's like to hit a historical brick wall, try to find out whether Dr. King was a Republican or a Democrat. Amazing how these little factoids seem to get lost in history. It is a fact that Dr. King met with President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon to help craft civil rights legislation. It is also known that the FBI under the Johnson administration kept King under intensive surveillance, taping his phones, reading his mail and leaking personal information to the press. But I've already talked about that.
I guess I have nothing to say.
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MLK day...I was wondering why the post office(of course) are the only ones who have the day off.I suppose all the rest of the feds do too.
But why not the schools, banks, or even just the black people? Is this the caucasian version of Kwanza? And why isn't there a
Ronald Reagan day? Or, God forbid, a Clinton day? Can you imagine what that would be like? YUCKYYYYYYY
There is a Clinton and Reagan day. It's called Presidents Day. In 1968, legislation (HR 15951) was enacted that affected several federal holidays. One of these was Washington's Birthday, the observation of which was shifted to the third Monday in February each year whether or not it fell on the 22nd. This act, which took effect in 1971, was designed to simplify the yearly calendar of holidays and give federal employees some standard three-day weekends in the process. Unfortunately, it also honors presidents who were less than sterling in performance and morality.
As far as MLK Day, that was signed into law in 1983 by President Reagan -- the same guy who is hated by those who conducted a 15-year petition drive to get the holiday. After the holiday was signed into law, the petition drive became a program of extortion, with threats of boycotts against any states that did not adopt the holiday.
Kwanzaa is an observation, not a holiday. It was totally made up by a black, radical, left-wing, atheist racist, cult leader Dr. Maulana Karenga, who was once imprisoned for torturing two black women who were members of the United Slaves, a black nationalist cult he had founded. His real name was Ron N. Everett. He wanted a separate black state, which explains why Kwanzaa was designed to divide the races, rather than pull them together.
On May 9, 1970 he initiated the torture session that led to his imprisonment. The torture session was described in the L.A. Times on May 14, 1971. "The victims said they were living at Karenga’s home when Karenga accused them of trying to kill him by placing crystals in his food and water and in various areas of his house. When they denied it, allegedly they were beaten with an electrical cord and a hot soldering iron was put in Miss Davis’ mouth and against her face. Police were told that one of Miss Jones’ toes was placed in a small vise, which then was tightened by the men and one woman. The following day Karenga told the women that ‘Vietnamese torture is nothing compared to what I know." Miss Tamao put detergent in their mouths; Smith turned a water hose full force on their faces, and Karenga, holding a gun, threatened to shoot both of them. The victims Deborah Jones and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothing."
Karenga was convicted of two counts of felonious assault and one count of false imprisonment. He was sentenced on Sept. 17, 1971 to serve one to ten years in prison. After being released from prison in 1975, he remade himself as Maulana Ron Karenga, went into academics, and by 1979 was running the Black Studies Department at California State University in Long Beach and converted to Marxism. Kwanzaa's seven principles include "collective work" and "cooperative economics." He is still there and everyone has almost forgotten the cruel and vicious attacks committed on his fellow blacks. Kwanzaa has been successfully marketed and is now heralded as a great African tradition.
Rather than "de-whitinizing" Christmas as Al Sharpton purported – it has polarized the holiday season -Hanukkah for Jews, Kwanzaa for Blacks, and Christmas for whites.
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