GOP Senators Propose Scrapping Columbus Day, Adding Juneteenth Federal Holiday

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GOP Senators Propose Scrapping Columbus Day, Adding Juneteenth Federal Holiday Veronica 07/02/20 (Thu) 04:22:08 d05be8 No.261532

By Brittany Bernstein

https://www.nationalreview.com/author/brittany-bernstein/

Republican senators Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) and James Lankford (R., Okla.) introduced an amendment Wednesday that would replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth as a federal holiday.

The proposal, which follows last week’s introduction of a bipartisan Senate bill by Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) that would establish Juneteenth as a federal holiday, is aimed in large part at offsetting the cost associated with Cornyn’s plan. Each new federal holiday costs an estimated $600 million in paid time off for government employees, according to a Fox News report.

''Throughout our history, we have strived to become a more perfect union and Juneteenth was a huge step in attaining that goal,” Lankford said in a statement. “We should celebrate these strides on the federal level while remaining cognizant of the impact the existing 10 federal holidays have on federal services and local businesses.”

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Anonymous 07/02/20 (Thu) 04:54:33 182424 No.261534

>Honor a Specific Explorer Day bad because of anti-catholic propaganda spread by the Ku Klux Klan

to be replaced by:

>Funny Made Up Word Day For A Day That Holds Much More Significance Than The Word Suggests good but fuck if we'll call it something sensible like Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, or Emancipation Day like it's been called informally for decades

Columbus had three small explorer ships; he didn't have the resources or intent to go on a murder/enslavement spree. There was a mass die-off of natives due to accidentally bringing illnesses with them, and the King of Spain declared the natives citizens and forbade their enslavement, instead of funding the creation of schools and missions to educate and convert them to Christianity

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