@Tfmonkey Regarding one important black man to have a holiday about, I vote for Thomas Sowell. The west never needed more to heed the logic of basic economics.
@Zeb Thomas Sowell doesn't deserve his own holiday objectively. He wrote a dozen or so books and he was Milton Friedman's protégé. That isn't grand enough. Honoring him would simply be (once again) honoring his for being black not for what he did.
@shortstories @Zeb Think about the kinds of people who have holidays made after them. They're usually religious saints, founders of nations, or national heroes.
@Tfmonkey @shortstories
By those standards, it's settled: there isn't up until today anyone who qualifies.
The US was founded by white men, their religions were europeans and their national heroes freedom-seeking white europeans. No blacks anywhere, obviously.
Martin Luther King already got a holiday
Although some things he did made society worse or were unethical, I think other things he did were good
Businesses used to be forced by the government to segregate whether they wanted to or not
Although I oppose government enforced integration, I think it was good that he opposed government enforced segregation
He deserves a holiday, & not because he is black if a white persin did that they might also deserve a holiday
@Zeb @Tfmonkey
I do oppose the very idea that governments should be able to declare holidays but if people want to do some holiday celebration ritual on their own for Martin Luther King that is fine with me
Also Louis Farrakhan founded a religion and pointed out Jewish enslavement of people
Maybe he should get a holiday also not for being black but for celebrating him for pointing out Jewish corruption