Posted on 01/16/2012 2:55:39 PM PST by upchuck
After a Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance at Burlingtons City Hall Contois Auditorium Monday, about a dozen demonstrators marched on the TD Bank branch just down the street to protest the banks opening on the holiday.
The marchers briefly gathered in front of the bank, then tried to enter. Moments after the group arrived, Patrick Brown, director of the Burlington Multicultural Resource Center, said he would hand leaflets to bank tellers protesting the banks hours Monday. The leaflet read: Dear TD Bank, you are defying the King holiday. Shame, Shame, Shame. This is a racist act. Shame, Shame, Shame.
Did you know that over the years farmers have been breeding turkeys to have more white meat? How racist can you get! Boycott Butterball. No dark meat, no peace!
The employees were paid time and half overtime.
what business is it of theirs if a banks wants to be open on that day?
This just lends credence to the marxist label of mlk.
Whites must abandon their racist beliefs and traditions and adopt Black values.
It is demanded that they worship at the alters of the Black Affirmative Action Gods.
Failure to comply will doom them to carry the mark of the racist for eternity, or until they are successfully reprogrammed in government schools and camps.
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No, today IS MLK Day. The holiday now known unofficially as “Presidents Day” and officially GW’s Birthday, is celebrated on the third Monday of February. GW’s actual birthday was 2/22.
When I was a kid in school we got off for both Lincoln’s Birthday (2/12) and Washington’s Birthday (2/22). I believe Lincoln’s Birthday was forfeited as a federal holiday when they instituted MLK Day. Now, the only federal holidays NOT celebrated on a given Monday are Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
MLK had a dream.We can dream too.
Our office was open today but we closed for Lee/Jackson Day.
I suppose the “Burlington Multicultural Resource Center” would be doubly opposed to that, handing out twelve “shames” instead of a measly six.
What is the percentage of black people in Vermont? Vermont must be Racist!!!
I live here. It sucks being surrounded by liberals but the crime rate is very low and I can buy a gun any day of the week with zero paperwork...
Stay east and north of Marshfield and things aren’t too bad.
I am a clinical psychologist with a full schedule. All of my patients showed up today. (There’s usually 1-2 cancellations or no shows on Mondays). It was a very busy (and obviously very racist) day.
I am crying all the way to the bank, being the rank capitalist that I am.
Should I have confronted my patients for not taking the day off?
If I had known that I would have taken the day off.
How many of Holder’s people cashed checks at the bank today?
Clearly you are a racist. Only racists work or open their businesses on MLK Day. What’s wrong with you?
“Did you know that over the years farmers have been breeding turkeys to have more white meat? How racist can you get! Boycott Butterball. No dark meat, no peace!”
I read that “The Reverends” (Al and Jesse) picketed Sears the other day. Their beef was that all the washing machines were white. The salesman allowed as how that was true, but opening the door, he pointed out that the “agitators” were all black.
This MLK holiday thing is getting way way way way way out of hand.
We can’t even honor our presidents, but MLK is now essentially considered the father of our nation.
This weekend was treated as a major three day holiday on the networks.
I think MLK himself would consider this massive overkill.
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