WTF? Look at this damn email offer I got from travelocity!

[kuozzman]

Did all that time off over the holidays make you a little soft?
Don't worry: there's a three-day weekend on the way!

The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is January 14-17, a perfect
time to pay homage to the great civil rights leader and enjoy a
relaxing weekend in one of America's landmark historic cities.
http://go3.travelpn.com/ct/click?q=55-TxIaIKJ~cO9XklR8f1TSXkavzjmX5exo

A perfect time to pay homage to the great civil rights leader in one of America's landmark historic cities?!?!?!?

Hmmmm...let's see...maybe I'll go to Colombus, where Black people have to wait hours in line just to vote? Or Little Rock, where they voted not to get rid of old Jim Crow law language in their state constitution that is offensive to Blacks, or Crawford, Texas! The home town of the current (unelected) President, who apparently doesn't think the civil rights MLK Jr. fought for are needed anymore....

Any other suggestions fellow late night DUers?

[purduejake]

1. DC is not a place I can relax.

Especially while a massive group of angry protesters is forming for the coronation.

[Tsiyu]

2. And of course, this day is not set aside

to consider MLK's words or actions or to contemplate how we can bring his message to fruition.

No, the holday only says one thing: SPEND MONEY, you materialistic American, you!

Try Atlanta, for it's high infant mortality and teen pregnancy rate, its sentencing discrepencies along racial lines, its decomposing inner city school buildings, its sky-high asthma rate among children of color and the way those lovely Black Boxes won another one for the King of the Honkies: The Shrub.

[ET Awful]

3. Crawford isn't exactly a historic landmark :) n/t

[Solly Mack]

4. Well, MLK has certainly "arrived American style". His memory

is now being marketed for commerce.

What he stood for doesn't matter - it's those days off.

Disgusting.


This is right up there with those people who keep MLK on a shelf and only pull him out during his birthday....then right back on the shelf he goes until next year. Never once keeping the dream alive in between.

[bones_7672]

5. Can I get my "Happy MLK Jr. Day" cards from Hallmark?

Or order a special Martin Bouquet from FTD???

[Solly Mack]

13. The ad is tacky. nuff said

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. It's just like Presidents' Day sales

Nothing really surprising.

[unpossibles]

6. wow. Someone does this crap on purpose.. they must...

from the ad: "Martin Luther King fought for the precious rights of freedom for all, so it’s appropriate that the first extra day of freedom in 2005 is during the 3-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, January 14-17."

Jeez... Have they no shame?

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Whoa! Arkansas is a backward, hick state, but it was not the one

that refused to change its constitution to eliminate Jim Crow law.

Little Rock is not in ALABAMA!!



Election officials began a statewide recount Monday after a measure to remove segregation-era language from the Alabama Constitution was apparently rejected narrowly by the voters Nov. 2.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/states/alabama/2004-11-29-segregation-recount_x.htm

[Midlodemocrat]

8. I can top you.

Here in Virginia, we celebrate Lee, Jackson, King day. That's right fellow Americans, honor the man who brought us civil rights on the same day as two Confederate soldiers.

When I first moved here, I thought they meant, Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson and MLK. Seriously, I couldn't believe it.

[gratuitous]

9. Go to Montgomery AL and ride in the back of a city bus

Or head over to Mississippi and see if some fun-loving folks won't bury you underneath a mud dam. Itching to knocked down by a fire hose? Celebrate the day the MLK Way!

[tx_dem41]

10. When did Arkansas (whose capital is Little Rock) refuse to get

rid of old Jim Crow language in their Constitution? I know ALABAMA just did that.

[tx_dem41]

11. Although the promotion is trite and crass, why are some on this thread..

making fun of actually visiting historical sites such as Selma and Atlanta (home of the MLK Museum)? Please, go! Take your kids! Teach them!

[Solly Mack]

12. Because it is trite and crass...that's why I was offended

I grew up in Atlanta...not too far from Ebenezer Baptist Church. Daddy King preached my childhood friends funeral.

I've been to Selma. I marched in Forsyth.

[tx_dem41]

14. Oh I agree about being offended by the promotion...

I am just questioning followup posts on the thread.

[anarchy1999]

16. Just subscribe to the local Crawford paper, The Lone Star Iconoclast and

give to the Crawford Peace House.


http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/Columns/Editorial/editorial39.htm

www.crawfordpeacehouse.org