did you know that cheney voted against making mlk day as a holiday?

Question

when dick cheney was a senator he voted against observing martin luther king day as a holiday. another example of racsism by republicans. source: his senate voting record researched by john edwards.

Answer 1

are you surprised? I'm not....that whole administration is a joke.

Answer 2

Many people that were not involved in the RACE issue during the 1960s do not realize the impact that MLK did for freedom in America. It was a difficult era. Many people did not (at first) oppose the VietNam war, in spite of our terrible losses there.

Certainly, the winter months have a generous number of holidays. At the time, Washington and Lincoln's birthday were more than enough holidays. Combining these into "President's Day" seemed to dilute the work of both Abe Lincoln and George Washington.

In some places around the world, every governor and every president gets a holiday named in their honor. So in time, every day is a holiday; and it is difficult to work around a messy calendar with an occasional WORK Day.

Now that time has passed, I believe that most people agree that Martin Luther King Day is one that is worth while, and that Martin Luther King's Dream is ALIVE.

Answer 3

I think that you are accusing him of being a racist when there are plenty of other reasons why he might have voted against it. There are many national holidays already, and every time you add another, it costs the government money because Federal workers get the day off. That means they get a paycheck for no productivity. That is probably one of the reasons that we celebrate President's Day now instead of both Washington and Lincoln's birthday like we used to. Cheney is a Republican, and would tend to favor less government regulation when it comes to things like holidays and such. So, I would tend to believe that he was a vote against more government rather than a racist vote.

Answer 4

Though I don't care about Dicky boy, how can this action be considered racist? The people who Martin Luther King helped aren't following his words. A holiday means nothing. Just another excuse to get oof work. If people really want to respect MLK, then they should follow his actions and words not take time off and march down the street.

Answer 5

A lot of Senators then voted against it, too. Robert C. Byrd (a long time Democrat Senator) of WV was a member of KKK. So what ? That was then.
Some ignorants keep accusing the Republican party as the party of racists. Did you know that it was the Republican party, led by Abraham Lincoln, that firmly put forward the abolition of slavery in America, while the other party vigorously opposed it, leading to the bloody Civil War.
Since you were there digging up dirt out of Cheney's past, did you find any of his military draft dodging record ?
Oh, don't worry. You guys could always doctor one up & air it on CBS !...

Answer 6

That is one more attempt to turn back time. If republicans had it their way, we would be in chains again working on the plantation. When Blacks learned about bankruptcy, Bush found a way to take it away. Whites have been doing for years. MLK is one more reason for blacks not to come to work with a legitimate reason. Republicans say no. I never have gone to work on MLK's birthday. It has always been a holiday for me. We celebrate Memorial Day. People died fighting for freedom of some sort. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr died fighting for freedom for blacks and all people including women, children and white people that were treated unjustly
This may seem like a racist statement but it is truly how I feel. My best friends are white and they know how I feel about this. I am not angry about it, just not blind to it.

Answer 7

Just maybe Mr. Cheney had the same thought as many other fiscal Conservatives, that is, the country has to damned many holidays, already. People must realize, the cost to the US economy is traumatic when it comes to giving people off, with pay, to celebrate a holiday. Especially now, when our economy is in a very fragile state.

The MLK celebration is a great American thing for those who wish to take off and honor him, his life and his accomplishments. The Casimir Pulaski holiday is treated the same way, and we don't hear the Polish complaining. So, take your racist comments, and blow your nose with them.

Answer 8

Nothing racist about it at all. Considering that Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday morphed into Presidents Day, many Americans thought that honoring one single man in a new holiday was not right. If it had been named Civil Rights Day or something like that, honoring all the people who worked so hard to end Democrat KKK / segregation / Jim Crow / Bull Connor racism, that probably would have been OK.

You have to get beyond the simplistic knee-jerkism of spouting 'racist' at every instance of people not falling all over themselves to pander to minorities.

Answer 9

Suppose that the bullet that hit MLK had missed and hit and killed Jesse Jackson, who was near by. Would we have a Jesse Jackson holiday instead? Would kids have been taught that Jesse Jackson was a great American hero? Would MLK be heading the Rainbow Coalition, doing the same things that Jesse Jackson is doing?

Answer 10

1st, it is not evidence of racism. Opposition to the law to honor one dude, and take away the holiday it was on, is plenty reason to oppose it. It could have been civil rights day to honor other civil rights leaders, but it was not.

2nd, if you want to talk racism, the dems are the party of racism, the party that founded the KKK, the party of segregation, the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow, the party of eugenics....I would hardly call the Republicans racists, considering it was the Republican party that led the charge to defeat all of the above.

Gosh, history sure is inconvenient.

Answer 11

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