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From: diy@sb1.UUCP (DENNIS YOUNG)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: MLK Holiday
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 11:01:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 11:01:36 1983
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I hope that the Congress succeeds in passing the MLK holiday bill.  I only
know that Dr. King received a Nobel Peace Prize for saying why can't a black
man (or any other person) eat at the same restaurant as a white man.  I
realize of course that getting a Nobel Prize doesn't automatically qualify
a person to be honored so, but let's look at what the man has done.

I am quite sure that a majority of the folks here on the net were old enough
in 1964 to understand what the Civil Rights Act was all about.   I think of it
as saying "OK, we know all men are created equal, now let's include non-white's.
OK guys, you can now ride anywhere you want to on a bus."  This is an event that
has happened in MY lifetime, and it was Dr. King who led the struggle for this.
No matter how you cut it, he made one helluva social and political impact upon
this nation.  There may be arguments about the results of his effort, that is
to say from those who feel blacks do not belong on the front of the bus.  But
for the simple act of making this country really mean what it says about the
fact that all men are created equal the issue wuld not be pressed, I feel.

It was interesting to hear Sen. Helm's statements concerning communism and
King.  I wonder who he felt the Black Panthers were friends of?!?!?