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For some, this it not even a holiday where you get the day off, but to the normal world (government, banks, etc), this is a holiday. And if you want to take that seriously and honor the man it is named after, Obama has made that possible with his huge Renew America Together program. The LA Neighborhood Cleanup Project is getting together in Silver Lake at 10 a.m. to clean up the neighborhood an there are plenty of other events around town.
There are also some parades and faith-based services throughout the day (ABC7 has a map of the big parade in South LA.
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working. who gets this day off anymore other than schools and banks?
governments, too. I think any business that is not service oriented (restaurants, retail) should have the day off. For us in media, there is never a holiday...ever, but that's the fun of it :)
I have today off, which is weird, but my company likes to have the "bank holidays" off. So we get about 11 days off a year. I'm not complaining. Hell, I didn't even have MLK day off when I was in college.
Working. Strangely not all that bitter either - oh the perils of freelance vs holidays!
my commute was 30 minutes into the valley. All rejoice!
what's your usual commute like? Where from and to? I usually think of coming to the Valley as against traffic, but I guess if you live in Simi, SCV or SGV, i guess that might be a dif story.
Pasadena to Woodland Hills
Yikes. I do WeHo to Sherman Oaks and it takes 30-45 minutes, depending. I usually leave my house between 7:30 and 7:40 so I'm not rushing into the office right at 8:30, and in case I need to stop at the bank/starbucks/bagel place.
Seeing as I bike my commute it wasn't noticeable quicker, but a lot of streets were "I Am Legend" deserted.
I like that image for bike riding to work.
I like that picture of Obama and MLK... yeah.
What I guess no one wants to talk about is MLK, why do we skip over all of his downfalls, and forgive me for not thinking he's more important than other black civil rights leaders, or those that WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE.
Frederick Douglas should have a day off, not MLK.
Yeah MLK was a registered Republican (shocking, huh?) But there's a reason why Republicans never embraced him, and it has nothing to do with his skin color. The man was a communist. And, yeah while I may be in my 20s I still have a problem with communists.
He wanted American to develop and become a Soviet like society. He was against the Vietnam war, not because it was a waste of American Life, but because he felt the Communist way of life was much better than what America had to offer.
It has always, even when I was in the 4th grade learning American history, it perplexed why Douglas received ZERO respect, while MLK did.
Then again, MLK gave us Jesse Jackson, and he's got to get paid some how.
And, I too WORK today.
You must not have paid too much attention to your 4th grade American History lessons, since it's Frederick Douglass (not Douglas)
Also, if we gave every person who contributed to the good of mankind a day off we'd never go to work. Douglass gets an awful lot of respect for his remarkable achievements, and his writings are studied in many classrooms at all sorts of levels all the time--including my college classrooms.
What do you do to honor Douglass?
Yeah, I must not have, since I didn't spell DouglasS with a double yes.
Let's not address the facts I expressed and just focus on misspelled words.
Like it f'n matters how I spelled his name, the fact of the matter remains that we celebrate a communist sympathizer instead of celebrating a person who deserves it more, and instead of celebrating other heroes of civil and equal rights for African Americans.
What do you do to honor DouglasS?
I don't know how about a DouglasS Day instead of MLK day?
Let's be honest. MLK would not have existed without DouglasS.
No, he, and most civil rights leaders were against the Vietnam war because they felt it was hypocritical for the US to fight a war defending the rights of the Vietnamese to establish a democracy and be able to vote while DENYING those same rights to African Americans in their own country.