Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Today we celebrate the life and work of arguably one of the greatest men in history. Here's a link to his "I Have a Dream" speech: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Yet in Canadian history classes he is never mentioned even once.

He had more impact on America the the rest of the world, but still a great man.

Well America in our textbooks is generally seen as a backwards aggressive country.

who is he?

In America we just don't care about Canada. It's that think in the north.

He lead the civil rights movement in the 60s I believe.

I think this will be helpful.

Arizona refused to acknowledged it as Martin Luther King Jr. day until just a few years ago. We called it Civil Rights Day. Some call it racist, I call it trollsy.

oh yes thank you, i have heard of him in my world history class but he was only given about a sentence of mention

Well Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He was a great man that helped lead the civil rights movement.

Oh yeah, everyone let's celebrate MLK day but let's totally forget about cesear chavez. Double standard racist fucking cunts

You definitely have a point there.
A little history on Chavez if anyone doesn't happen to know how he is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_Chávez

On that point, [since it gives me an opening] I would like to point out that, in spite of the movement supposedly being for the benefit of all minorities, I have never seen a single Asian in any of the documentaries. MLK talked about the Chinese Exclusion Act a couple of times, I think, but I never really saw any Asians.

Looking forward to Thursday more. Happy Confederate Heroes Day motherfuckers!

Caesar Chavez didn't do much. He striked and was lucky enough not to get the police smashing his face in. When they didn't, he was able to march on Sacramento. It would've failed, but random people, typically hippies, joined him. He got a few thousand people and delivered a meh speech. Then he got some minor consesions from the farm companies.

He got bolstered by the media though.

Ah yes MLK day the one time of year that singles the tradition into black history month in February where I get to be made fell guilty for apparently slaving the entire world, when if you tell anyone that your polish/germanic and have been enslaved too they look at you and scream "Racist" and then totally forget that slavery has been a part of history since the dawn of human civilization and it didn't just suddenly appear with white people against black people, however that being said I respect MLK Jr and his civil rights march and bring equality and rights to the african american community and as such he should be remembered and respect.