She brought up that he plagiarized some of his speeches. Yeah, so? That isn't cool but once again, a lot of people do it. It doesn't make it right but in my opinion, its not enough to toss away the real message of MLK.

She then bitched about not being able to buy stamps and use public transportation. Yes. She actually went there.

That was when I knew she was reaching. This is an excuse that I hear many say about MLK day. Well, buy friggin stamps and do what you need to do at the post office on Saturday. If you have something that needs to be done, then you plan for it. It's not the government or MLK's fault that you cannot budget your time. I live in Chicago, we don't have a problem with public transportation on holidays. Her transportation issue has nothing to do with the fact that it is MLK day but the fact that her local public transportation sucks and she needs to get people together to petition for some changes in that. Presidents' Day is a holiday. Veteran's, Memorial, Christmas, and New Year. These are all days that you can't get stamps and I guess in her neck of the woods, they need to dust off the horse and buggy for a day. There are a lot of people who would rather than Christmas not be a national holiday since they do not observe it... but that is what you deal with if you are an American because those are the holidays that are set by the government. I had another person complain to me that they didn't want their tax dollars going to it... Well I don't want my tax dollars going to a lot of things that the government does- Martin Luther King really isn't a big deal to me. It's a nice day off, even is I am so mundane that I don't really think about the significance of the day.

I have to say after this conversation with her, that was the beginning of the end of our friendship. This conversation, her huge support for Rush Limbaugh, and the fact that anytime she said something about blacks or MLK, she had to preface it or end it with "I don't mean to offend you..." I'm mixed and I don't really care one way or the other. People suck no matter what color they are. Still, I got sick of hearing it from her and after putting all the conversations and statements of her together, I figure she was really not the kind of person that I wanted to associate with.