Arizona State Lawmaker Proposes Holiday For White People

[Old Rocks]

American Holidays

Americans celebrate a variety of federal holidays and other national observances throughout the year. American holidays can be secular, religious, international, or uniquely American.

With the wide variety of federal holidays, and the many levels of American government, it can be confusing to determine what public and private facilities are open on or around a given federal holiday. You can usually find such information in the daily newspaper or by calling the office you wish to visit.

The following are American federal holidays and other common national observances. Federal holidays are indicated as such.

New Year's Day is January 1. The celebration of this federal holiday begins the night before, when Americans gather to wish each other a happy and prosperous coming year. Many Americans make New Year's resolutions.

Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday in January. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was an African-American clergyman who is recognized for his tireless efforts to win civil rights for all people through nonviolent means.

Groundhog Day is February 2, and has been celebrated since 1887. On Groundhog Day, crowds gather in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to see if groundhog Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow after emerging from his burrow, thus predicting six more weeks of winter weather.

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14. The day was named after an early Christian martyr, and on Valentine's Day, Americans give presents like candy or flowers to the ones they love. The first mass-produced valentine cards were sold in the 1840s.

Washington's Birthday is a federal holiday observed the third Monday of February to honor George Washington, the first President of the United States. This date is commonly called Presidents' Day and many groups honor the legacy of past presidents on this date.

Easter falls on a spring Sunday that varies from year to year. Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For Christians, Easter is a day of religious services and the gathering of family. Many Americans follow old traditions of coloring hard-boiled eggs and giving children baskets of candy.

Earth Day is observed on April 22. First celebrated in 1970 in the United States, it inspired national legislation such as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. Earth Day is designed to promote ecology, encourage respect for life on earth, and highlight concern over pollution of the soil, air, and water.

National Arbor Day was proclaimed as the last Friday in April by President Richard Nixon in 1970. A number of state Arbor Days are observed at other times to coincide with the best tree planting weather, from January and February in the south to May in the far north. The observance began in 1872, when Nebraska settlers and homesteaders were urged to plant trees on the largely treeless plains.

Mother's Day celebrates mothers every second Sunday of May. President Woodrow Wilson, who issued a proclamation in 1914, asked Americans to give a public expression of reverence to mothers on this day. Carnations have come to represent Mother's Day, following President William McKinley's habit of always wearing a white carnation, his mother's favorite flower.

Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed the last Monday of May. It originally honored the people killed in the American Civil War, but has become a day on which the American dead of all wars, and the dead generally, are remembered in special programs held in cemeteries, churches, and other public meeting places. The flying of the American flag is widespread.

Flag Day, celebrated June 14, has been a presidentially proclaimed observance since 1916. Although Flag Day is not a federal holiday, Americans are encouraged to display the flag outside their homes and businesses on this day to honor the history and heritage the American flag represents.

Father's Day celebrates fathers every third Sunday of June. Father's Day began in 1909 in Spokane, Washington, when a daughter requested a special day to honor her father, a Civil War veteran who raised his children after his wife died. The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson.

Independence Day is July 4. This federal holiday honors the nation's birthday - the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It is a day of picnics and patriotic parades, a night of concerts and fireworks. The flying of the American flag is widespread.

Labor Day is the first Monday of September. This federal holiday honors the nation's working people, typically with parades. For most Americans it marks the end of the summer vacation season and the start of the school year.

Columbus Day is a federal holiday celebrated on the second Monday in October. The day commemorates October 12, 1492, when Italian navigator Christopher Columbus landed in the New World. The holiday was first proclaimed in 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Halloween is celebrated on October 31. On Halloween, American children dress up in funny or scary costumes and go "trick or treating" by knocking on doors in their neighborhood. The neighbors are expected to respond by giving them small gifts of candy or money.

Veterans Day is celebrated on November 11. Originally called Armistice Day, this federal holiday was established to honor Americans who had served in World War I, but it now honors veterans of all wars in which the U.S. has fought. Veterans' organizations hold parades, and the president places a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Thanksgiving Day is a federal holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest. Many regard this event as the nation's first Thanksgiving.The Thanksgiving feast became a national tradition and almost always includes some of the foods served at the first feast: roast turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, and pumpkin pie.

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is December 7. In 1994, Congress designated this national observance to honor the more than 2,400 military service personnel who died on this date in 1941, during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by Japanese forces. The attack on Pearl Harbor caused the United States to enter World War II.

Christmas Day is a federal holiday celebrated on December 25. Christmas is a Christian holiday marking the birth of the Christ Child. Decorating houses and yards with lights, putting up Christmas trees, giving gifts, and sending greeting cards have become holiday traditions even for many non-Christian Americans. Find holiday tips to help you celebrate.

Other Celebrations
Various ethnic and religious groups in America celebrate days with special meaning to them even though these are not national holidays. Jews, for example, observe their high holy days in September, Muslims celebrate Ramadan, African Americans celebrate Kwanzaa, Irish Americans celebrate the old country's patron saint, St. Patrick, on March 17, and Mardi Gras is the day before the Christian season of Lent begins and is a big occasion in New Orleans, Louisiana, where huge parades and wild revels take place. There are many other such religious and ethnic celebrations in the United States.

American Holidays | USA.gov

Gee, no federal Native American day. I wonder why...

Hmmm....... Would June 25 do?

 

[Lakhota]

Hmmm....... Would June 25 do?

Yeah, June 25 looks open...

 

[Sunni Man]

I agree that historically there were many great Negro inventors, scientists, writers, artists, musicians, etc.

But the only thing that has come out of the Black community in the last couple of decades is Rap music.

Which is hardly something to celebrate; let alone listen to.

 

[California Girl]

Talk about a case of 'faux outrage'. The OP is a classic example. I'm tired of people who deliberately misrepresent the words of others in order to create partisan bullshit.

Read what the guy actually said. He did not 'propose' a holiday for white people. Whoever wrote that piece clearly misrepresented what he said... and mindless fucking borgs regurgitate it like the Gospel.

It bothers me that so many Americans are clearly too stupid to practice basic comprehension and look at context.

 

[Salt Jones]

I agree that historically there were many great Negro inventors, scientists, writers, artists, musicians, etc.

But the only thing that has come out of the Black community in the last couple of decades is Rap music.

Which is hardly something to celebrate; let alone listen to.

It seems hundreds of millions worldwide disagree with you.

 

[Lakhota]

I agree that historically there were many great Negro inventors, scientists, writers, artists, musicians, etc.

But the only thing that has come out of the Black community in the last couple of decades is Rap music.

Which is hardly something to celebrate; let alone listen to.

Absolutely!

 

[Salt Jones]

Talk about a case of 'faux outrage'. The OP is a classic example. I'm tired of people who deliberately misrepresent the words of others in order to create partisan bullshit.

Read what the guy actually said. He did not 'propose' a holiday for white people. Whoever wrote that piece clearly misrepresented what he said... and mindless fucking borgs regurgitate it like the Gospel.

It bothers me that so many Americans are clearly too stupid to practice basic comprehension and look at context.

The "guy" lives around the corner from me. I have no problem with him or what he said.

 

[Lakhota]

Talk about a case of 'faux outrage'. The OP is a classic example. I'm tired of people who deliberately misrepresent the words of others in order to create partisan bullshit.

Read what the guy actually said. He did not 'propose' a holiday for white people. Whoever wrote that piece clearly misrepresented what he said... and mindless fucking borgs regurgitate it like the Gospel.

It bothers me that so many Americans are clearly too stupid to practice basic comprehension and look at context.

Yeah, righties are sooo big on "context"...

 

[Full-Auto]

Don't whites already have enough holidays?

How about a holiday for Native Americans?

As soon as Im reloaded. You have some rep coming.

 

[Salt Jones]

I agree that historically there were many great Negro inventors, scientists, writers, artists, musicians, etc.

But the only thing that has come out of the Black community in the last couple of decades is Rap music.

Which is hardly something to celebrate; let alone listen to.

Absolutely!

Music and revolutions have a long history. Hip hop in the Arab world does not. But as the Arab Spring turns to summer, is hip hop emerging as one of the drivers of the revolution?

"Mr President... people have become like animals... We are living like dogs."

The words of young Tunisian rapper El General, real name Hamada Ben Amor, in his track Rais Le Bled.
It was the end of 2010 when El General - then a relatively unknown rapper - quietly posted the track, along with a simple video, on his Facebook site.

It was raw and angry - about corruption, unemployment and poverty - and it singled out then-President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali directly.

No bling
Within days it had gone viral, and the words of the song were on the lips of many as they demonstrated out on the streets across Tunisia.

"It certainly wasn't El General who unleashed the Tunisian revolution, but El General and Rais le Bled was a significant factor amongst many others," says music journalist Andy Morgan.

These revolutions have broken the fear barrier and the silence”
"Rais le Bled just strips away all the bling and the glitz of the genre and brings it right back to basics - it's just a man on a mic telling it as it is," he told BBC World Service.

It was a bold move on El General's part, and one that led to him being detained and questioned for three days in January by the Tunisian authorities.

BBC News - Is hip hop driving the Arab Spring?

Others see it differently.

 

[Fang]

I agree that historically there were many great Negro inventors, scientists, writers, artists, musicians, etc.

But the only thing that has come out of the Black community in the last couple of decades is Rap music.

Which is hardly something to celebrate; let alone listen to.

Yea, these are the blacks that call each other Nigga as a term of endearment. LOL

 

[grunt11b]

Does America currently have any "white" holidays...?

Until we see a Caucasian history month, no.

 

[grunt11b]

Arizona State Lawmaker Proposes Holiday For White People

What is this guy a White Supremicist or something?

There are no national holidays that are RACE SPECIFIC.

If its a national holidy its a holiday for all citizens regardless of race.

So Caucasians can also celebrate asian pacific islander month, Hispanic heritage month,black history month? I mean, I know they can, but why would they? You would think the liberals could wrap there tiny little brains around this, being that they are all about fairness. Oh...wait a second, it's only fairness to those they approve of.

 

[grunt11b]

I bet it would piss off the browns and the blacks if we had a "white history month. just guessing.. I'd like White History Month to be in April. The whole month of beautiful soft April.

Or a white entertainment television "WET" show. They would lose there friggen minds over that one, sharpton would be hooten and hollering on MSNBC for years.

 

[grunt11b]

isnt saint pattys day coming up?

That's not a holiday for only whites, if you ever got out of your moms basement and went somewhere you would know that there are black and hispanics in ireland also who are "Irish", that is a holiday for the irish, no matter what color they are.

 

[rdean]

I agree that historically there were many great Negro inventors, scientists, writers, artists, musicians, etc.

But the only thing that has come out of the Black community in the last couple of decades is Rap music.

Which is hardly something to celebrate; let alone listen to.

It seems hundreds of millions worldwide disagree with you.

Republicans don't care about what hundreds of millions say worldwide. They only care about what confederate southern whites have to say.

 

[grunt11b]

maybe we could call it saint racists day and put it on april 1st

You have 43,370 posts? Holy shit that is alot of hot air, someone should be taxing all that carbon!

 

[grunt11b]

maybe we could call it saint racists day and put it on april 1st

Is that a "white peoples" holiday that I don't know about? Are you that fucking racist TM?

It seemed to me as if it was a joke, the idea was to show how ridicules another holiday would be based on race.

One3 day America will be taken over by Hispanics... I have never seen a single person that cared other than liberals talking about it. The most I have seen is to make sure they are American, or else the country is fucked as you will have 2 countries living as one and that has never worked in the history of man kind... especially when one of the societies has to pay for the other.

Now you know why the left wants it that way so bad, to fundamentally change america was part of the current presidents speech before bing elected. And alot of dumbfucks fell for it thinking he was meaning something else.

 

[grunt11b]

Damn Lakhota are you too dense to see he is making a point. Asshole hypocrites like you say a holiday for white people is RACIST, yet a holiday for latinos is AOK. How do you not see the hypocrisy in that? Just as a hypocrite like you says the National Black Caucus is just Black unity and the National White Caucus is racist. La Raza (the Race) promoting the betterment of the Latin American community isn't racist, but it's white equivalent the KKK is a racist group (which it is)! A KKK member would never even sniff the Supreme Court, but the Latino version of it, La Raza, gets an entry seat!

Whites Americans don't subscribe to the bullshit of whites stick together, otherwise we wouldn't have a black President, a black GA congressman defeating a white opponent in a 95% white district. However, African and Latino American subscribe to it 10 fold. Try being a white man running for Mayor in a city that is less than 45% white, you can't even get out of the primaries. Whites vote for who fits their ideology the best. Latinos and African Americans vote for who is the right race and color!

What's up with Arizona?

After a Latino state legislator proposed a Latino American Day, lawmaker Cecil Ash stepped up before the legislature to suggest a holiday for white people. Seriously.

This is, after all, the land of S.B. 1070, the contentious and draconian immigration enforcement bill that has been mired in legal deadlock since it was signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer (R) in 2010. The legislation, considered the strictest of its kind when it was passed, is to be ruled upon by the Supreme Court later this year.

It's also home to Russell Pearce, the former Republican state senator credited with laying down the framework for the state's controversial immigration law.

And who can forget the ever-graceful Brewer, stateswoman and author, wagging her finger dismissively in the face of President Obama at an airport in Phoenix last month?

And the swashbuckling Sheriff Joe Arpaio lives there, too. He proclaimed himself "America's Toughest Sheriff," and now finds himself ensnared in a U.S. Justice Department investigation accusing his department of racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish.

Enter Cecil Ash, a Republican from Mesa, who feels that what Arizona needs now is an official holiday for white folks.

The idea apparently came to Ash after state Rep. Richard Miranda proposed a Latino American Day. "I wanted to speak to you all about Latino Americans here in Arizona," Miranda said on the House floor Monday.

After some debate, Ash stepped forward with his grand idea.

"I'm supportive of this proposition and I think it's well deserved," he said. "I just want them to assure me that when we do become in the minority you'll have a day for us."

There was laughter on the House floor. On CBS 5 News, reporter Elizabeth Erwin introduced her story on the latest state controversy saying, "You can't make this stuff up." No you can't.

On the street, a random woman in a baseball cap said Ash's proposal made sense. Of course. "Like they have Cinco de Mayo for Mexicans," she told CBS 5 News, "we need something for whites." Only in Arizona.

Ash, for his part, wasn't backing down.

"I think it was appropriate," he told the station, referring to his proposed holiday. "It was appropriate for the mood that was in the House and I think that if and when the Caucasian population becomes a minority, they may want to celebrate the accomplishments and the contributions of the Caucasian population the same way."

Maybe Ash is onto something. Consider the talk of a Caucasian history month on the social networking site Tumblr. For real. No joke.

Cecil Ash, Arizona State Lawmaker, Proposes Holiday For White People (VIDEO)

Lakhota is more interested in race baiting and class warfare to begin to think for himself. He is the obama/saul olinsky protege, just an online version. And in similar fashion, he is not fooling anyone either.

 

[Ernie S.]

Don't whites already have enough holidays?

How about a holiday for Native Americans?

There are no exclusively white holidays, fool.

Black History month isn't exclusively for black people to celebrate, either.

So get out there and celebrate the great accomplishments of great people! If it bothers you so much that they're all black, then you have a real personality problem.

OK then you wouldn't have a problem with White History Month, Miss White America, the Congressional White Caucus, the NAAWP, White Liberation Theology? You wouldn't have a problem with George Wallace's birthday becoming a National Holiday, just as long as we claimed they weren't exclusively for whites?
I have no problem with celebrating the accomplishments of any person. What I have a problem with is celebrating their accomplishments because of their skin color.