Posted by
darrelmulloy on Monday, January 14, 2008 5:25:22 PM
If you were put in the position of voting to declare a national holiday and the person you were naming this holiday for had been accused by the director of the FBI of being a communist sympathizer, that he had been found to be an adulterer, that he was accused by a fellow worker of having made "passes" at him, and that he plagiarized his doctoral dissertation, how would you vote.
If this man considered himself a Marxist and believed that capitalism was wrong because "it has left a gulf between superfluous wealth and abject poverty, has created conditions permitting necessities to be taken from the many to give luxuries to the few, and has encouraged small hearted men to become cold and conscienceless."
Would you put this man's name on the same level as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?
If the man in question was black, and you voted against this holiday, should you be considered racist, in spite of the above mentioned facts?