Why I'll Work MLK Day
By: Karen
De Coster
There is something inherently evil about being non-productive on the Martin
Luther King "holiday."
If I were to choose non-work on this day, I would endorse the State's choice of a day
of rest. I would be sanctioning King's democratic socialism and grandiloquent
notions of redistributing from the Dos to the Do Nots. It is clear that
virtually no employer would give such an absurd holiday were it not for coercion or mandates
from the Feds. In my line of work as a corporate CPA, the timing of
the holiday is made worse by the fact that we are in a crunch to close the books
at year-end and produce financial statements. The MLK stall is a blow against
production if you ask me.
But since I work in a predominately black city, management at my company has
decided that they shall seek the politically correct route for the very first
time this year. They caved in to the PC Peoples. A day off for all of us. Whoopee.
President's day, however, is not a component of the holiday package. The birthday of two dead white guys is hardly a
PC
necessity. If truth be told, if I were boss for a day I'd make everybody work mega-overtime on MLK day to give the Reverend King a
free market slap in the face, and then I'd make
a holiday of April 14th, the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination at the hands
of John Wilkes Booth. Now that's something to celebrate. However, since April
14th falls on a Saturday this year, and since I'm never the boss, it shall not
be.
Why should we celebrate a commie, anyway? The anti-capitalist King, who was
reluctant to ever display his radical, democratic socialist roots to the public,
believed that a restructuring of American society was essential to economic
equality for blacks. He blamed minority poverty on injustices in our economic
system, and he believed that ultimate freedom would require a world-wide
movement toward socialist planning.
And yet, I am supposed to sit home on this day in silent praise of the glories
of a man who used the civil rights platform to forward his Marxist class
struggle? I will not.
Instead, Monday will find me amongst one or two other workaholics looking beyond
the holiday. My boss will love my work ethic, but I'll smile because I know I
have a more fundamental reason for working. In fact, I'll smile as I remember
the heroic Arizona governor Evan Mecham, who, having had the MLK holiday forced
on his state by leftist parasites, promptly repealed the law, though it was
eventually restored again. I had once cheered the great state of Arizona in all
her attempts to resist the mob.
One thing I shall enjoy about MLK day is that my commute along the public road
system will be made easier. After all, most government employees and assorted
goof-offs will be taking the day off, wandering around the neighborhood mall and
running up their credit card debt instead
of heading downtown to work and be productive.
As much as I could bask in the glories of a three-day weekend, I shall remain true to my moral
obligations and work this non-holiday. But I will not work for free, for I
shall use the time off for something more worthy, like a March 2nd holiday – Murray Rothbard's birthday.