MLK Day and what happened to me yesterday ...

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Something weird happened to me yesterday.
A co-worker that believes that climate change is not affected by CO2 gases being released into the atmosphere approached me.
This is a really smart person, so I can't believe that he doesn't have critical thinking skills. Obviously a conservative!

Now you'll have to understand that I promised my wife that I would not talk politics at work.
I've been known to in the past and it never turns out good.

Anyway, my co-worker stated to me that one of his pet-peeves is that Washington and Lincoln have to share a holiday but MLK gets a holiday all his own.
And that Washington and Lincoln get streets named after them, but MLK has "Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard, or Parkway, or ..."

Trying not to make it political I respond that MLK day will probably become Civil Rights day, and walked way fuming.

The whole way home I kept thinking about that conversation and I was pi$$ed that I really couldn't respond the way I would have, and no doubt I would have made it political.

So, if I could really respond the way would have away from work, here is what I was thinking and would have responded:
Really, your pet-peeve isn't how hard it was and still is for African-Americans to register and vote. Or the fact that the law is applied differently between white America and non-white America? That all the A-A's are asking for is to have the law applied equally for them as for everyone else? That's not your pet-peeve?

As far as street names go, Washington has a state named after him, along with our nations capital, monuments in his honor and all kinds of cities and streets, while Lincoln also has cities named after him, monuments all over the country and again streets in his honor. Both were carved into the side of a mountain, and both images are used on our currency in coin and paper form.
I'm sure the list will grow the more I think about.

All deserving don't get me wrong, but comparing MLK with these two really shows your racist side.

MLK has a little monument is DC, and probably a few around the country. I know that San Diego has MLK walk by our convention center, and a freeway named in his honor.

As for the holiday, sure Washington and Lincoln have to share the Presidents Day holiday, instead of back when I started my career in the mid-80's they each had their own holiday. But, you can blame that on corporations, not wanting to pay for 2 days off. So, they just started using Presidents Day to honor all the US Presidents, not just Washington and Lincoln.

So why compare MLK with Washington & Lincoln?
Was this a talking point fed to you by Fox Noise?

Really?

Then turning around and walking away. (Kind of like, fade to black).

I will now see this person completely different, as a racist and a RW Nut job. And yes, he is white.

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1. Actually the top number street names are pretty interesting-

Second is first, first is third, and third is second. That's how the most common U.S. street names stack up in a list compiled by the National League of Cities.

The U.S. Census Bureau's most recent geographical data was from 1993, but judging by the names on the list, there's a reason why they're so common: numbers and trees are easy. And of course, there's a reason why talking heads refer to Main Street as a ubiquitous economic force. In most places, it actually is.

Here's what NLC came up with:

Second (10,866)
Third (10,131)
First (9,898)
Fourth (9,190)
Park (8,926)
Fifth (8,186)
Main (7,644)
Sixth (7,283)
Oak (6,946)
Seventh (6,377)
Pine (6,170)
Maple (6,103)
Cedar (5,644)
Eighth (5,524)
Elm (5,233)
View (5,202)
Washington (4,974)
Ninth (4,908)
Lake (4,901)
Hill (4,877)

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2. I'm surprised that Peachtree is not on that list ...

If you don't know about Peachtree streets racial connotations, please feel free to look it up!