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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d rather have legislation that holds police accountable for killing us.[/quote]

How are you posting here if you were killed by police?

Hey, but you’ve just identified the reason for a holiday in March or April. Maybe we’ll have the “mass shooting by assault weapon” Memorial Day holiday in April and March can be the “I’m a criminal / rioter that was abused by and occasionally killed by police” holiday. Then we’ll have a holiday for every month and some will even have two. Oh wait, I forgot about August. Let’s have a holiday for the day we dropped the bomb. We’ll call it the “this is what justified, bean-counter mass murder really looks like” holiday.

Sound good?  [/quote]

I’m sure this sounded really good in your head - and you thought you were making some clever point.   It does not come across clearly.  A generous read would be that you think we have too many holidays and don’t believe that the end of human slavery in this country is worth celebrating as one.    That isn’t a good look.

Hopefully this new holiday will trigger a little more self-reflection in future generations.[/quote]

Not trying to be clear, simpleton. That’s pretty obvious. I am mocking the post about killer cops, and this holiday’s purpose. It is a joke.  We give a holiday to slaves like that is going to repair racism, but not to the entire nation of native Americans we wiped off the map. Why?  Because the folks on the reservation don’t vote.  It is a hypocritical and meaningless farce. But, again, I will enjoy the day off along with the celebration of a false prophet on Dec 25th, a now completely convoluted Columbus/Indigenous Day in Oct., Labor Day (random). I assume at some point Presidents’ Day will be removed due to the clearly racist past of GW and even AL, who despite issuing the edict to free slaves, thought they were an inferior sub-species.

As far as self-reflection, what does that even mean?  I did not enslave anyone. Nor did my ancestors who came here as immigrants in the late 19th century. I’ve always know slavery was wrong. This does not awaken me to the plight of enslaved people, as that was known already. This is a vapid, political gesture triggered by a need to be liked and re-elected. But hey, I feel so much better now that the feds have made up yet another holiday. Yippee. [/quote]

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