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Malcom X Day
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:28pm
by HemlockGrey
Should there be a Malcolm X Day, as there is a Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:30pm
by Brother-Captain Gaius
Hell yes! Less school...
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:32pm
by Dalton
Malcolm X was a bit too anti-white for me.
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:37pm
by Yogi
It was Dr. King that made the most diffrence, not Malcom X.
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:38pm
by darthdavid
But, But, But... Less school?
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:41pm
by Sea Skimmer
No there should not be. If you want another day off, split presidents day.
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:46pm
by Joe
No. When he wasn't anti-white, he was subscribing to the profoundly bizarre belief that Islam was the solution to America's problems.
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:47pm
by Seggybop
Another holiday is another day off school. Implement
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:48pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
I don't buy inot that "Another day off of school" bullshit. Malcom X was a weirdo, case closed.
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:50pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
I'm fine with using it as an excuse to get off of school, but I believe Malcolm X was a bit of a nut, and there are other important black people you can give a day to, like Rosa Parks.
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:57pm
by RedImperator
Martin Luther King took Jefferson's philosophy and perfected it, and is the one American in this century who is most responsible for the idea that all people deserve the same freedoms as everyone else by virtue of being human.
Malcom X was a black separatist fucknut and proto-Islamofascist. I wonder which one deserves a national holiday.
Posted: 2003-02-25 09:01pm
by HemlockGrey
Ouch, Red. My English teacher showed us the film Malcolm X and then gave a little spiel about how he changed into a great and honorable man before his death. Say that to her and the gauntlet would hit the floor.
Posted: 2003-02-25 09:04pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
HemlockGrey wrote:Ouch, Red. My English teacher showed us the film Malcolm X and then gave a little spiel about how he changed into a great and honorable man before his death. Say that to her and the gauntlet would hit the floor.
I believe he thought that black people should be seperate form whites, but after taking a pilgrimage, changed his views.
Posted: 2003-02-25 09:07pm
by ArmorPierce
Yeah, he changed his views shortly before his death
Posted: 2003-02-25 09:09pm
by Joe
ArmorPierce wrote:Yeah, he changed his views shortly before his death
Malcolm X prattled on endlessly about the wonderful racial unity he found in Mecca among Muslims, I guess he forgot about the whole hatred of Jews thing.
Posted: 2003-02-25 09:16pm
by HemlockGrey
Incidentally, who voted for getting rid of MLK Jr. Day, and why did you choose that option?
Posted: 2003-02-25 09:26pm
by MKSheppard
HemlockGrey wrote:Incidentally, who voted for getting rid of MLK Jr. Day, and why did you choose that option?
Me. He was a goddamn skirt chaser. WTF do you think his family got his
FBI file sealed for 20 more years?
Best to simply split Presidents day back up, and make Washington and
Lincoln's birthday's national holidays again, rather than contorting them
into one damn holiday