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Enough with MLK

Wednesday, January 24 at 12:01 AM

The Rocky Mountain News article of Jan. 16, “Most firms stay open on holiday” (Business), pretty much tells how many people feel about the massive coverage the paper gives to Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.
How many more years are we going to have to see the canonization of King? This country has honored the greatness of this man for the past 40-plus years, but do we have to pay tribute to him with such outlandish fanfare for rest of our lives? Granted, King accomplished much in his lifetime toward racial tolerance; more than this country did in the hundred years before him. But, really, enough is enough.

Robert Johnson, Highlands Ranch

READER COMMENTS

MLK is highly overrated.

Posted by on January 24, 2007 06:23 AM

I don't see the reasoning for pointing out that most businesses stayed open on Martin Luther King's Birthday.
My first reaction was , " so what '?
Businesses stay open on Presidents Day.They stay open on Memorial Day.They stay open on Independence Day.They stay open on Veterans Day. They stay open on Labor Day.

So bringing up the fact that life goes on and businesses do not close on MLK birthday seems to me that the RMN is saying because he is black MLK Day doesn't make a difference.I call that race baiting.

Posted by Tracey on January 24, 2007 07:19 AM

Why is that white american only understand and honor only white "great men". I'm not black but i do lookup to MLK as a man of God who stood up for the mistreatment and disrespct of fellow Americans by white ingnorant southerns who felt "white is right". Mlk was attacked by the radical black "nation of islam" not physicaly of course. I have been around the world during my time in the Navy and we are blessed to live here in this great country. This country has mistreated every non-white American groups througthout history. And is something we have to live with but not forget we have along way to go .We should honor all Americans who put lives in danger for others.

Posted by Marvin Barela on January 24, 2007 11:56 AM