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Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 1962536)

I agree 100%. But does that mean we should declare a national holiday?????

Murder is wrong, should we have a national holiday (I'm willing to bet you are against capital punishment as well)
Embezzlement is wrong---how about a Bernie Madoff Day?
Adultery is wrong......well, you get my point

Everything that is wrong, everything that is important does not rate a national holiday, if it did, we'd have 365 day a year off, and one more in leap year. (Oh, wait, I'm retired so I do have 365 days/year off:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:)

Good points. I have no problem celebrating Americas' progress with civil rights. I'm not sure, however, that the real motivation about this new holiday is that or if it is designed simply to appease the woke crowd.

MLK was a great American and instrumental in advancing civil rights. I think we honor his message as well as the change he initiated for ALL Americans. This shouldn't be about a "race holiday" but rather an American holiday.

No matter what anyone says, I still believe we are the most accepting and least discriminatory nation that has ever existed.

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Originally Posted by Swoop (Post 1962414)

The number of government employees at all levels has grown exponentially. When I lived in Pennsylvania, once a year our local paper listed the top three employers in our county. Over the years different manufacturers & the hospital occupied the top three spots. But about 10 years ago, that changed. Since then, the top three employers in the county were the Federal, State & local governments…

Blame the state? Isn’t Pennsylvania the state that pays teachers the most and has the highest teachers retirement? Now shall we talk superintendent pay scale?

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Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan (Post 1962701)

Well, let's see one hanging was by KKK members that targeted a black man at random, and was said to be a racially motivated murder. The other was 7 people of mixed races and no racial bias was ever mentioned.

hmmm...

I still don’t see your point, is it strictly the method of death that makes that 1981 murder pertinent? Because racial hate crimes aren’t limited to the KKK, and you certainly don’t have to go back 40 years…
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