(CHARLOTTE) -- About 100 people protested a decision by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to use the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to make up a snow day. Protestors said it is inappropriate to have students go to school on the Martin Luther King holiday.

"Charlotte to me is a bastion of racism, discrimination and separation, whether it's economically, whether it's ethnically and mostly by race and yet it promotes itself as a global community," Charlotte NAACP president, Kojo Nantambu.

Charlotte Mecklenburg School officials have said that they have very little flexibility when it comes to scheduling make-up days.  Nantambu said the move was insensitive.

(Thanks to: WBT)