Clarence Thomas, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman will be celebrated equally alongside Mike Tyson, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell  and the guy who played Steve Urkel on TV. 

Gary Coleman deserves some credit doesn't he? Why be so narrow minded about this day?

Why must Martin Luther King Day be celebrated near his birthday? Why not move it to Lil' Wayne's birthday? Lil' Wayne is Black too, isn't he?

Do you think that will pass muster with Barrack Obama, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the NAACP?

If not, why not?

I suggest that it would be rightly seen as a denigration of the specific sacrifices and life's work of MLK, Jr.

True?

If so, then why have we allowed government bureaucrats with the ever-present goal of erasing our collective memory to dictate the "everyone is special so no one is special'" program on George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?

I would bet that 90% of US schoolchildren are unable to identify Lincoln's Birthday as February 12 and Washington's as February 22. This was not the case even one generation ago.

George Washington's Farewell Address alone is worthy of a thousand op eds this Washington's Birthday. He is as deserving as Martin Luther King , Jr. of a day of  "teaching moments" for young students.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. Why not have that fact taught in our government mandated schools? Are you racist? Are you in favor of Black slavery? If Harvey Milk is entitled to a specific day in California, why isn't Lincoln? Why is not George Washington elevated to the same level as a San Francisco Supervisor whose sole "accomplishment" was his homosexuality, which makes him useful for Leftists who push identity politics.

We have allowed the Left to denigrate our national heroes to the same level as Bill Clinton, Chester A. Arthur, Gerald Ford and (yes) Barrack Obama.

This Presidents Day ask yourself why?