Do you believe Columbus Day should have been taken away and then make a holiday for Martin Luther King?

This is my opinion on the matter. First off, before I start I am not races in anyway. Why don't we the White people have a holiday or a white month to celibrat our values and our heratige. We do not have those bennifets and if we ask we are races. What is up with that?

MLK was wonderful for the Black people and he did an aswome job! I am upset that he got killed, but I do not appologizes to it because I was not their or was born their. I just wish Black people would understand that we are making a differance for them and I wished they would not hold us accountable for what happen then. This is now not back then. We cannot appollogize for something we did then when we were not here. All we can do is help them to better their lives. Also their past family were not just slaves. Their wer Whites, Mexicans and all other colors.

I do not see color because I was not raised like that in anyway. But I am sorry, but the Black people bring it up and then their is a situation to be followed. U have many black friends, Mexicans, and so on and I love them to death. They are wonderful people!!!

I don't have so much of a problem with MLK day as I do with Columbus Day. Columbus did not discover America. Native people were here centuries earlier. Columbus was a disgrace to Christianity as were most explorers. I think we should have some sort of day in place of Columbus Day to honor the native peoples of this country. I think every race and religion should be celebrated, none of this taking God out of everything crap and no special treatment because you are black, white, latino, whatever. I also would not have a problem with an Islamic holiday as well as a day for atheists if it came to that. But I better be able to practice my religion also.

What I do hate are things like BET. That's fine, you can keep BET, but realize that white people have a right to have our own channel. If we are truly free, that's how it should be instead of taking everyone's everything away.

Columbus discovered America just as the burgular discovered my apartment. Yea MLK actually made a positive difference in America.

I think Martin Luther King Day is much better than celebrating when our country was founded.

My reasons are---

- Martin Luther King is someone we can look up to for inspiration

- Was a great speaker and leader

- Had a HUGE impact on our nation

- Without him, we might still be treating African- Americans like slaves and not treating them equally.

BUT, Columbus Day is still important. But getting rid of it isn't that big of a deal. I don't think most people even know that we replaced it with Martin Luther King Day.

as far as i know, columbus day was NOT taken away for MLK.

they combined Lincoln and Washington birthday into Presidents day and gave the leftover to MLK. Columbus is still observed by banks and post office, and catholic shools.

You can not compare MLK to Columbus! However, I do have a problem with Columbus claims in discovering America, how do you discover something when you have people living there? Then again, back then, they were not consider human!

I don't like added MLK day at the expense of other holidays. Kids in my area get off MLK day, but now have to go to school on President's Day.

Tell me, do you really think that MLK is more important that ALL the presidents combined.... including Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Roosevelt?

Columbus Day wasn't taken away. It became Presidents Day.

Columbus DIDN"T discover America. Credit for that was given to Amerigus Vespucci. Columbus was lost and thought he was in India. Do you need a special day for the directionally impaired?

No, I don't. Columbus' achievement was real. Martin Luther King Jr.'s status as some kind of civic saint is phony.

Michael ("Martin Luther") King Jr. was a fraud, top to bottom. He got his doctorate by cheating; he got his religious degree through sinning copiously. His very first sermon, given in 1947 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, was stolen from a sermon by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick. And nearly everything of significance that he said or wrote afterward was likewise stolen from better and brighter men -- from men who never had a chance at the kind of honors that King got.

King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God," pirated passages from Edgar S. Brightman's earlier work, "The Finding of God." Another of King's essays, "Contemporary Continental Theology," was mostly stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton. Michael King got his Ph.D. in theology on the basis of a doctoral dissertation entitled "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman." It contains more than fifty complete sentences stolen from the Ph.D. dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, "The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's Concept of God."

Even in the famous "I have a dream" speech was tainted by intellectual theft. Some of its ideas and imagery are stolen from the 1952 address of Archibald Carey to the Republican National Convention.

"Reverend" King was a moral hypocrite because he committed adultery frequently with prostitutes, whom he paid with money he stole from Southern Christian Leadership Conference funds. King spent his last night alive in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, having sex with two prostitutes and beating up on a third woman. He was also a political hypocrite because he preached "racial harmony" but wrote the foreword for a book entitled "Negroes with Guns" by Robert Williams, which urged Blacks to buy guns and murder White people.

King was a communist agitator who hired and gave cover to Soviet agents during the Cold War. Both of his personal secretaries, Bayard Rustin and Jack O'Dell, were members of the Communist Party USA.

Such is the man whom most other Blacks look up to! Such was their greatest hero. The only sense in which King really excelled was in being Mr. Slick. He got a doctorate he didn't deserve. He got a Congressional medal he didn't deserve. He got a Nobel prize he didn't deserve. He got a federal holiday he didn't deserve. Streets have been named for him, but shouldn't have been. And not one American in a thousand knows what kind of trash Martin Luther King Jr. really was.

Yes, Columbus didn't discover America. Native Americans had been here all along.