Speyside2 wrote:What I dislike is Juneteenth, and Martin Luther King day is that they are discriminatory holidays. No other holidays are based on skin color. I suppose I could celebrate them, but I have no connection to either of them.
I have no issues with the Martin Luther King Holiday. I don't think its discriminatory. Yes, it's named after a specific person but I think it honors more then the black rights movement in the times. My opinion is that it honors what he stood for - equal rights for all.
A well known snippet from the "I have a dream" speech: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
He may have been talking about skin color but I think this statement transcends beyond skin color and applies to every human being.
Rich or poor, CEO or some "peon" kid doing shopping cart duty at your local grocery store, or delivering news papers. An in-home heath care worker. A neighbor that shovels the walkway on a snowy day or mows the lawn of a elder neighbor without being asked. $hit, even holding the door for the person behind you... little stuff like that really defines the content of your character.
The Juneteenth holiday? I'm still scratching my head on that made up one. It seems to me as rather patronizing.