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Utahns celebrate King's legacy

Mr King died for the rights to live in peace and be happy
We have a major problem today in Utah
You have no Civil Rights
Your City Council is making laws as if they are a home owners association
They have no right to make laws with the cops sticking their nose in your yard and property
Mayor says they may have business at your house
My house and yard is private property
He has no business with law biding citizens because they make an Ordinance

I understand the wanting to not foget what someone has done for our nation but, what about Lincoln and Washington? I remember as a kid growing up we would celebrate the accomplishments these two presidents made for our nation, now they have dwindled to just another day in our lives and we remember them because the calender tells us to. There will be no gatherings of groups, no calling for a national day of mourning, none of that. Yet now to be politically correct we need to emphasize one individual for his accomplishments for a selected group vs. acknowledgment for those who did so much for an entire nation of several groups. There will be not televison news coverage of Presidents Day, no special speaches in churchs, just another day.

I'm encouraged by the acts of so many to continue to live out the dream that Rev. King expressed and inspired. We have come along way, unfortunately there is still much work to be done in the area of social justice and civil rights. It's important to continue to teach our youth about Dr. King and his legacy. However we can't stop with education; we must continue with the "calls for action". We must look within our families and communities and see where we can place another brick to build onto the legacy and framework of peace toward that "Beloved Community".
Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we are going to honor all presidents (erasing the memory of Lincoln and Washington, and the great things they did), why not honor all those who fight for civil rights?

At a future date, if needs be, in the name of assuageing our liberal guilt, will we attempt to quell illegal immigrant discontent by granting them Cesar Chavez Day?

MLK, the only person with his own holiday (by name), why not look into his past a little bit to find out a little bit more about who he really was? Not to take away from the great work that he helped bring about, but why doesn't anybody look into his, what some would call questionable past?

We call him Dr. and Reverend. Why doesn't anyone talk about his doctoral thesis being plagiarized, including errors of grammar and punctuation, taken exactly from anothers work? Or about his "I have a dream" speech being taken exactly from an address given 10 years earlier at the republican national convention? Or all the womanizing?

Let's just talk about it. Not that Washington and Lincoln didn't have flaws.

Civil Rights day sounds more appropriate to me.