How do you think this will work? Obama has a press conference, and says "I am half WHITE." Half the people won't care and will find it gauche, the whities who do care will probably only care that he dare associate himself with the whities (uppity); the black folks who care will think he is dissassociating himself from his black heritage: but most people don't care.

So how will this bring us together on the issue of race? We'll have a sudden epiphany "OMG blacks and whites not only living together as one, but sometimes in the same body? Where have we gone wrong? I finally see it doesn't matter what "color" someone is."

I'd really like to hear your viewpoint on this: how it should be done and what changes it will effect.

Because, it is my belief, that only those who care about race to begin with want this to be an issue. As Dana said before: it doesn't matter. If it matters to an individual, I have to wonder why. The racist people I know will not change their feelings: they can't even get the fact that he is not muslim through their skulls.

But if your idea brings hand-holding and kumbaya, I'd love to hear how it should happen.

While we are not on the subject.

Monday is Martin L King Day. It is a US federal holiday

His birthday has also become something more...

MLK Day is a joke. But if it gives some of you an extra day off more power to ya....

A joke ?

How is it different than other federal holidays, such as Columbus Day or Veteran's Day, or any other ?

Just a personal opinion. Nothing more. I don't get holidays off in my job so it is just another day to me.

So all public holidays are a joke to you?

No. Not all. Just that one and a few others. Like I said it is a personal opinion.

The meaning of them is lost on most people, they just care if they get another day off from work.

Yah I understand that it's your personal opinion. I'm curious about why you hold that opinion about that holiday and the few others you think are a joke.

Maybe because it's the third Monday in January, instead of the 15th.
Federal holidays, except 4th of July, and Christmas, the government has made most of them long weekends.
So people can Honor Dr King for three days instead of one? No, so people have three days to plan other things instead of honoring Dr King. It's not just this holiday, most holidays, have lost their meaning except a three day weekend. We celebrate Memorial Day and Labor Day by taking to the road, and killing more people.


Oh, and by putting mattresses on sale. :haha:

Correct. And more importantly I believe they are paid days off. No one cares why they are off, they just care that they get to be off.

:lame:

It's disingenuous to try to duck the political and racial aspects of holidays.

Ummmm..., maybe saying Columbus Day, St'Patricks Day, or ML King Day is a joke in the wrong bar would be a reason to duck and cover.

Disingenuous for you maybe. I could give a rats ass about the political and racial aspects of any holiday. I just realize their celebration is done by a tiny minority of people, the rest just want their day off and could give a crap whose day it is or what it was created for.

/Almost completely OFF TOPIC

Years ago we lived in Buffalo NY and listened to Canadian Radio.
They had a contest to create a new holiday for Canada.

The idea was to establish a holiday in late January to relieve the
boredom and hardships of Canada's cold winter days.
I don't know if the holiday was ever actually established.
But the name that I liked best was: "Chinook Day"

It seemed completely appropriate because it generates images of good things to come.

1 (also chinook wind) a warm dry wind that blows down the east side of the Rocky Mountains
at the end of winter and often melts all the snow on the ground.

2 (also chinook salmon) a large North Pacific salmon that returns
from the ocean in Spring to bred in fresh water rivers and streams.

/Now back to the current thread...

Google images for Chinook, the first page gave me 18 images...

16 of them are of the first thing that came to my mind...

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Canuks, get me a beer bitch.