SuperJail Warden wrote:
I am against Juneteenth being a holiday because the blacks already have MLK Day. All the white people need to share Columbus day while the Hispanics and Azns don't even get one. Whites get St. Patrick's and Mexicans get Cinco De mayo as small and unrecognized holidays. That still leaves out the Azns, all of them.
Juneteenth should be a holiday but we should have eliminated MLK Day. Also President's day should be on election nights in November.
We could get 30 new national holidays and the time off given to federal employees probably still wouldn't hold a candle to all the breaks top politicians take. Chinese New Year and CDM at least are commercialized here with sales and advertising like a lot of white holidays. May is Asian/Pacific Heritage month still, isn't it? We can have a Juneteenth and a MLK day and a black history month. Who cares. I still think it's an empty gesture when used to avoid doing anything substantial (actionable police reform, better minimum wages and pay oversight for overtime workers, more vacation time, sick days that people aren't afraid to take, concessions for small groups and individual actors competing with corporate giants, affordable housing, affordable health care, better coverage for dental, mental).
Moving Presidents Day to election day is pointless. Not even everyone gets the day off, so what does it matter. Why should Americans have to stand in a 7 hour line to vote, so inconsistently inconvenient from district to district. Let people vote by mail in every state. If the Republicans want to whine about it, they should change their platform so that people will vote for them in areas they need to win. Running candidates people want to vote for would help too. It shouldn't be difficult.
Notice how all the Presidents Days fall on a Monday? That was an intentional change to give people who actually get the day off more three-day weekends. But if you're one of those guys who works 7 full days a week and holidays, I guess you're just more American.
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Cinco De Mayo is probably bigger here than in Mexico. Down there, it commemorates a victory in a war they lost. Mexican Independence Day is actually Sep 16. There are tons of holidays more important than May 5.