12-30-2015, 01:40 AM
(12-30-2015, 12:57 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I like the ideas of Peace Day and Civil Rights Day. Since I have two other replacements, though, I am just going to go with the CRD since MLK would honestly hate that a day was named after him and prefer it to be CRD. I had this discussion with a pastor I knew (he passed away last week) who went to seminary with, and was a friend of MLK.
Thanksgiving and Columbus Day can go. They are bullshit. Thanksgiving can be replaced with a holiday on 04 May celebrating the founding of the first permanent settlement here. Columbus Day can be replaced by Indigenous People Day.
Now that those are out of the way, I am having a hard time with an additional one. I suppose Election Day, but I am also a proponent of changing the day for that anyway. Tuesday is such a crap day for it. Make it a Monday or Friday, give people a three day weekend.
No. You can't take my Thanksgiving Day! But don't worry, the retailers are taking it away for you.
I'm hearing you on the Columbus Day. A lot of Native peoples are pretty sensitive about that one. Maybe we should just change it to "White Folk Can Really Suck Sometimes" Day?