GOP Senators Lobby to Replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth as Federal Holiday

Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and James Lankford (R-OK) backed a proposal on Wednesday to replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth as a federal holiday.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has sponsored a bipartisan bill that would make Juneteenth, a day that celebrates the end of slavery, a federal holiday. Cornyn’s bill has engendered some backlash from Republicans worried about the cost of adding another federal paid holiday.

To offset the cost of adding Juneteenth as a federal holiday, Johnson proposed eliminating Columbus Day as a national holiday. He contended that few people celebrate Columbus Day, which marks Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Americas in 1492.

“I’m just saying let’s replace it with something,” Johnson said. “I chose Columbus Day just because it’s probably the most lightly celebrated and less disruptive to anybody’s schedule.”

Johnson added that he is “happy to celebrate the emancipation with a national holiday, but I just don’t think we should be, when we’re already blowing a hole in the budget right now, offering another paid day off for federal employees.”

The Hill reported that Lankford is a cosponsor of Johnson’s proposal to eliminate Columbus Day as a national holiday

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/01/gop-senators-lobby-to-replace-columbus-day-with-juneteenth-as-federal-holiday/

>>9817462

hese guys are blithering idiots

You have freaking Flag Day the week before

Local Municipalities are closed.

Why the hell would you have a holiday the next week

Columbus day is a good holiday because it gives you a break between Labor Day and Thanksgiving

I am tired of this PC Schiff!

>>9817462

Great. Two more Senate seats up for grabs in November.

(edit) - You think 'flag day' has a chance of survival? Optimism is a good thing.

>>9817462

n my almost 67 years, I have never heard of Juneteenth until this year !

What a crock of crapola !

K A G 2020 or the corrupt swamp wins !!

>>9817462

I never heard of it either

Lived in progressive cities and public school education.

Never heard of it

>>9817462

Let's replace 2 RINO Senators with actual Republican Senators next election cycle.

>>9817462

Oh Ya-a-a-a, Columbus Discovered America… Big Deal say the RINO's in Chinee clothing.!.!

>>9817462

'Lets just make everyday a holiday', says the man who has never done anything but get elected to an office where he spends other people's money.

>>9817462

Add Rubio & Graham to that list; and ROMNEY& Sass

Offshoring American jobs to Communist China

unmasking the republicans

>>9817462

Juneteenth should be partly about celebrating the end of slavery, but also about reminding people about how the Democrat Party supported slavery, and imposed oppressive laws against blacks after they were freed from slavery by the Republicans.

>>9817462

Exactly. And that it wasn't just 'black' people who worked to end slavery. So called 'white' people had nothing to gain by fighting a civil war to free the slaves. They made those sacrifices anyway. The story of slavery in America is a powerful lesson in overcoming ignorance and moving forward rather than constantly looking backward. The Democrats, BLM, and the 'progressives' who control the civil rights movement and grievance industry just keep getting more regressive every day in every way.

>>9817462

The left wants to destroy America's history, because they know that it reveals just how evil they really are.

>>9817462

BLM doesn’t care about the civil war, fought to end slavery, So why even bother to have a holiday ending slavery? They even want to get rid of Lincoln statues. Why try to appease them anymore? It’s a lost cause.

Republicans are cowards and wear the mask

what happened to home of the brave ?

>>9817462

Kwanza was another one that was invented I think. Strange world that we live in. IMHO who really cares. Retail establishments can have Juneteenth sales and everyone will be happy to have a day off lol

>>9817462

Kente cloth. It originally came from the Asante tribe in Africa. They were well known to have captured their neighbors and sold them as slaves to the British and Dutch, to be taken to the Americas.

It's no great leap for the Democrats to drape themselves in fabric identifying them with African slave traders. After all, their party was the pro-slavery party in the US. Still is, really.

>>9817462

The vast majority of Black Americans never heard of Juneteenth until this year. The vast majority of Black Americans don't celebrate the Marxist invented holiday called Kwanzaa either

>>9817462

99% have never seen Africa except on the news and them calling themselves that is ridiculous !

If you born in America, you are American

Boston to Remove Lincoln Emancipation Memorial

BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s arts commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to remove a statue that depicts a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet.

The commission had fielded escalating complaints about the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, as a nation confronting racial injustice rethinks old imagery.

The statue has stood in a park just off Boston Common since 1879. It’s a copy of an identical monument that was erected in Washington, D.C., three years earlier. The copy was installed in Boston because the city was home to the statue’s white creator, Thomas Ball.

Although the monument was created to celebrate the freeing of slaves in America, its design disturbed many who objected to the optics of a Black man kneeling before Lincoln.

“What I heard today is that it hurts to look at this piece, and in the Boston landscape, we should not have works that bring shame to any groups of people,” said Ekua Holmes, vice-chairperson of the arts commission.

“After engaging in a public process, it’s clear that residents and visitors to Boston have been uncomfortable with this statue,” Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said in a statement.

More than 12,000 people had signed a petition demanding the statue’s removal. Officials did not immediately set a date to take it down, and said details would be worked out at their next meeting on July 14.

The memorial has been on Boston’s radar at least since 2018, when it launched a comprehensive review of whether public sculptures, monuments and other artworks reflected the city’s diversity and didn’t offend communities of color. The arts commission said it was paying extra attention to works with “problematic histories.”

“As we continue our work to make Boston a more equitable and just city, it’s important that we look at the stories being told by the public art in all of our neighborhoods,” Walsh said.

Freed Black donors paid for the original in Washington; white politician and circus showman Moses Kimball financed the copy in Boston. The inscription on both reads: “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.”

But Blacks weren’t part of the design process, and the memorial’s central visual takeaway — a Black man kneeling before his white savior — has had people cringing for years.

Protesters have vowed to tear down the original statue in Washington, which has been protected by National Guard troops guarding it and other monuments.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/30/boston-to-remove-lincoln-emancipation-memorial/