Peter Brimelow writes:

Happy Robert E. Lee Day! His January 19 birthday was once widely celebrated across the South (it still is mentionable in Alabama) but during the Second Reconstruction has been quietly suppressed to the point where even such a devoted son of the Confederacy as American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor was unaware, when I talked to him on Sunday night, that its local variant in his and Lee’s state of Virginia, Lee-Jackson Day, was supposed to be celebrated last Friday. (Not surprisingly—it seems to have been recently crudely scrubbed from Virginia’s webpage.)

But there’s a silver lining, sort of, in this tale of attempted historical lobotomy: It shows that public holidays come—and they go. Martin Luther King Day, rushed through Congress with Obamacare-style disregard of process in 1983, has been by now weighed in the balance for almost thirty years. It has inarguably (but unmentionably) been found wanting. It is time for it to go.

And in fact, I believe it will go, or at least be quietly suppressed like Robert E. Lee Day. The reasons:

MLK Day’s 2027 Problem

It is obvious to everyone that there is a reason King’s FBI files were sealed for fifty years back in 1977, and only the Main Stream Media’s typically relentless Politically Correct air cover prevented this flagrant maneuver from discrediting the Martin Luther King Day legislation in 1983.

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VDARE.com's Martin Luther King Archive: 48 Items!

We've been writing about Martin Luther King, Jr. for years, because worship of him is more or less mandatory in American schools, and a "career test" for Conservatism Inc. types.

While we have lots of fascinating stuff about MLK's plagiarism, pro-Communism (King "colluded" with Russia during the Cold War and especially the Vietnam War) and his personal life, which included adultery and rape, his aims and methods in fighing Southern segregation and Northern poverty weren't that good either.

See for yourself:

January 15, 2022—Integration Has Failed. Now What? by Eugene Gant

January 19, 2021—Theodore Pappas On Martin Luther King's Grad School Affirmative Action by James Fulford

January 19, 2021—MLK Day Special: Martin Luther King's 1951 GRE Scores: Verbal 350, Quantitative 270 by Steve Sailer

January 17, 2021—Time To Rethink Martin Luther King Day? The 2021 Edition by Peter Brimelow

November 19, 2020—A Talk Radio Listener Says Trump Should Order The Sealed Martin Luther King Records Released—Along With Other Deep State Files

June 13, 2020—John Derbyshire: I Have A Dream—That This Is The Darkness Before The Race-Realist Dawn

January 21, 2020—King And Gandhi—Two Of A Kind (Not In A Good Way) by Eugene Gant

January 20, 2020—Patrick J. Buchanan: Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future?

January 20, 2020—On Martin Luther King's Non-Conservatism: The Quota King by James Fulford

January 19, 2020—Time, Once Again, To Rethink Martin Luther King Day–The 2020 Edition by Peter Brimelow

June 5, 2019—Ann Coulter: The Whole MLK Folk Tale, And Nothing But