NewsVine_Mariyam
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Yesterday I saw this video of Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy calling Juneteenth a 'useless' holiday and thinks it should be cancelled. He also made some derogatory remarks about some of "the religious" holidays which he stated aren't really about religion but instead are cults. On top of calling Juneteenth useless he indicated that the only reason it is now a holiday is because of those who gave in to political pressure and that making it a federal holiday was not necessary.
And while he's certainly entitled to his own opinion, it wears on my nerves when people from other countries come to the U.S. and take advantage of all of the things that the U.S. has to offer that obviously weren't available to them in their country of origin and then turn around and talk crap about some of the citizens here or our customs in the manner that he has just demonstrated.
Even more astounding, is that today he's now apparently walking back his statement since someone has found an old post of his in which he was stating something entirely different about Juneteenth. I believe this is called "talking out of both sides of his mouth".
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And while he's certainly entitled to his own opinion, it wears on my nerves when people from other countries come to the U.S. and take advantage of all of the things that the U.S. has to offer that obviously weren't available to them in their country of origin and then turn around and talk crap about some of the citizens here or our customs in the manner that he has just demonstrated.
Even more astounding, is that today he's now apparently walking back his statement since someone has found an old post of his in which he was stating something entirely different about Juneteenth. I believe this is called "talking out of both sides of his mouth".
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