lineIfDuty, I'm not disagreeing that the Blacks have had some obsticles to overcome but MLK and many whites have advocated for their cause also with no recognition,it seems if I were Black that I would question how the Hispanics arriving here in great numbers ended up with more rights than the Blacks who have as people say suffered for many years,I'm not a racist but still believe each of us has the same chance at prosperity as the next person and self application to advance yourself is a matter of choice and if one decides to do the work they will reap the benefits.

wHY IS THIS STORY STILL ON MY FRONT PAGE!!!!

Blacks were not the only group discriminated against by laws on the book.

These included Asians, non-Christians, non-Protestants, and the largest group, women.

Rather than fight among ourselves about who is taking from the other (while a few are really taken from all of us), we a better society of abundance.

Enough for each, much more for most.

what is interesting is how the US has this as a holiday, yet only some observe it. And there are ceremonies all over and for years I've never been invited or known the location of any of them.

Only a few whites have the real power. Most of the rest of us have little power and little opportunity to change that unless we realize that we are being manipulated by those with wealth and power to turn on each other and not join together to do what is best.

At the core of our problems is that terms like capitalism, markets, value, and the assumptions about them are wrong, and almost none of the common wisdom of R,D, Libs applies in today's information age.

Included in all that is nearly everything about banking, taxes, job creation, welfare.

"Im Irish American and my ancestors did not have no cake walk either but by hard work education and family values they survived and overcame obsticles on their own,no government handout or special attention .... cantstandya"

This is all very true, the Irish were very much hated when they came to the US ... the difference is, however, Blacks were the ONLY ones ever with laws on the books denying them equal rights ... like right up to 1964 (pretty sure on this date). And that is still pretty recent and sick.

Is society better off?

This day would have been bette srved as a national day off to VOTE!!! That way the working folks could go vote without the loss of pay.

Gil-Ann Wilder stated: "Dr. King was a Prince of Peace and one of God's prophets. If anyone that has ever lived on this earth deserves a day in remembrance, Dr. King does. I am also happy his statue stands proudly in Washington, DC and his painting hangs proudly in my office. His legacy will live on til the 'end of time' and there will never be another like Dr. King. I look forward to the day I can meet him in Heaven and shake his hand. He changed the course in history and God used him mightily to pave a better way of existence between blacks and whites."

I disagree. A man that considered himself a man of the cloth would not have the alleged morals that MLK had. This is a perfect example of the hero worship and deification that the liberal media made out of MLK.

"Dr. King was a Prince of Peace and one of God's prophets. If anyone that has ever lived on this earth deserves a day in remembrance, Dr. King does. ... wilder"

Problem is, we don't have days for prophets in this country -- its secular

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