6/19/21: One man who is definitely not celebrating the new federal holiday is GOP Congressman
Ralph Norman of South Carolina.
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South Carolina state motto:
“We started the Civil
War and we’re still sad we lost.”
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One of only 14 members of the House of Representatives to vote against making June 19, “Juneteenth,” a federal holiday, Rep. Norman grumbled in an interview Thursday, “How many holidays do we want? What’s the magic number? This would put it to eleven. Do we want twenty? Are we going to do one for the Native American Indians? I mean, where does it stop?”
Yeah. Where does it stop? Just what the Native Americans had to be thinking when the first white guys showed up in 1492.
So: Columbus Day, a holiday for a white explorer? No problem, as far as Rep. Norman can see.
July 4th: Great document, the Declaration of Independence, but written by a slave owner (who was also having sex with one of the women he owned). Yeah. No problems here, either.
But a holiday to celebrate the END of slavery? Or, horrors, a holiday to celebrate the people Columbus helped separate from all the lands they previously owned? Terrible, according to this fool.
It’s
fun to note, by way of comparison, that South Carolina shuts down state
offices
to celebrate “Confederate Memorial Day” every year. This year the celebration was
held on May 10, marking the anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s death in 1863. Something
tells me Rep. Norman partied hard and waved his favorite flag.
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