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title: "Why do African Americans have to stay home on Jewish holidays but on MLK day their children go to school ..."  
description: "Why do African Americans have to stay home on Jewish holidays but on MLK day their children go to school ..."  
author: "valentine d'suja"  
published: 2018-02-27  
updated: 2018-03-30  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35434/why-do-african-americans-have-to-stay-home-on-jewish-holidays-but-on-mlk-day-their-children-go-to-school  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["african-american history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why do African Americans have to stay home on Jewish holidays but on MLK day their children go to school ...

Why do [African Americans](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41777/what-did-the-british-offer-to-enslaved-african-americans-in-exchange-for-looting-and-burning-the-capitol-building-in-washington-d-c) have to stay [home](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/82906/syed-waseem-rizvi-back-to-home) on Jewish holidays but on [MLK](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40760/why-did-mlk-write-letter-from-birmingham-jail) day their [children](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/299938/sleep-and-children) go to [school](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/311528/advantages-of-an-ib-boarding-school-in-the-same-city) this not [fair](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51306/what-programs-did-congress-pass-from-truman-s-fair-deal-what-programs-did-congress-refuse) to the African Americans who want to work and go to school on Jewish holidays?\


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