USAians: What are you doing on this loooong MLK weekend?

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Grant's presidency was unrivaled for incompetence until 2001-2009.

exactly. So why would anybody have such confidence in a Lee-Jackson presidential ticket?

[Zkribbler]

I'm threadjacking the threadjacking. Back to the original question:

What are you doing this weekend?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Winston

USAians: What are you doing on this loooong MLK weekend?

I take it people in Colorado won't be telling jokes about Barrack Obama and any possible paint jobs at the White House. What a farce. Are you even allowed to say "the White House" in America 10 years from now?

You people need to move your focus from trivial and excruciatingly PC stuff like this onto where the real problems are.

Have a good one.

I'm curious as to why you decided to bring this up in this thread.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


What are you doing this weekend?

Absolutely nothing different than any other weekend. We need a mid-January holiday here.

[Thoth]

Originally posted by Wezil


Absolutely nothing different than any other weekend. We need a mid-January holiday here.

QFT.

[Riesstiu IV]

That's cuz Canananada doesn't have black people.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
That's cuz Canananada doesn't have black people.

What do they have to do with Lee-Jackson Day?

[Winston]

I'm curious as to why you decided to bring this up in this thread.

I brought it up because, as I've tried to explain, to me it's an illustration of the kind of out-of-focus view taken by most people with an interest in furthering racial equality - which I'd like to see replaced, or at least more heavily supplemented, by more attention being paid to actual manifestations of inequality and racial strife. And I just read the story in my paper today.

Oh, and I absolutely hate and detest mindless political correctness for the sake of just conforming. And for the sake of just about anything else, come to think of it. Which should come as no big surprise to anyone here.

Why do you ask? Are you just baiting, and if so, are you baiting me or someone else, say, chegitz guevara?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Winston

I'm curious as to why you decided to bring this up in this thread.

I brought it up because, as I've tried to explain, to me it's an illustration of the kind of out-of-focus view taken by most people with an interest in furthering racial equality - which I'd like to see replaced, or at least more heavily supplemented, by more attention being paid to actual manifestations of inequality and racial strife. And I just read the story in my paper today.

Oh, and I absolutely hate and detest mindless political correctness for the sake of just conforming. And for the sake of just about anything else, come to think of it. Which should come as no big surprise to anyone here.

Why do you ask? Are you just baiting, and if so, are you baiting me or someone else, say, chegitz guevara?

Ah. I hate those things too. But why is celebrating MLK day an illustration of them? Surely, marking a symbol of teh ending of segregation in a non-violent way is on par, in a nation's collective consciousness, with, say, honouring veterans. I guess one might counterargue that racial equality before teh law is a silly example of political correctness gone far, but that would be a difficult argument to make.

Admittedly, you and I, as teh only non-Americans in teh thread, are probably least qualified to discuss teh validity or meaning of this holiday to Americans (to whom teh OP's question was posed), but this is Poly, so that gives us license.

I'm not baiting anyone. Especially not che; that's easy enough to do in a less roundabout way.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Geronimo


What do you like about them?

I think the main thing he likes about these historical figures is that they were devout white supremacists who wanted to destroy their country, United States of America, by fighting for secession on issue of preserving slavery.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I'm threadjacking the threadjacking. Back to the original question:

What are you doing this weekend?

For one thing, I'm thinking of drumming up a protest vote for Lee - Jackson.
Sign here. Right here on this line. Print afterwards.
Thank you, sir.

[Lonestar]

Go to work on Monday.

(In answer to the OP)

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Grant's presidency was unrivaled for incompetence until 2001-2009.

Carter? Kennedy? Buchanan?

[SlowwHand]

Kennedy is over-rated, almost as much as Lincoln.

[Theben]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Lee Jackson doesn't exactly roll of the tongue. Should have been Jackson Lee.

He'd be mistaken for an Asian Kung-Fu fighter.