{"id":40347,"date":"2015-04-28T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T02:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40347"},"modified":"2020-07-15T22:23:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T02:23:58","slug":"spoken-like-someone-who-doesnt-get-best-worst-holiday-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40347","title":{"rendered":"Spoken like someone who doesn\u2019t get BEST WORST HOLIDAY off"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Impetus<\/a>: Creative Loafing \u201carticle\u201d about how Confederate Memorial Day should be ended.<\/span><\/p>\n

For starters,\u00a0this<\/a>\u00a0is the \u201cauthor\u201d of said \u201carticle.\u201d\u00a0 Can we say definition of white guilt here?\u00a0 Or should I call it like it really is, which is the dreaded\u00a0slow news day?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What the so-called Unofficial Governor of the Day doesn\u2019t seem to realize is that if he were to get his wish and Confederate Memorial Day were ended, and no longer recognized as a state holiday that many, many Georgia state workers do not get off any more, there would likely be a large segment of said many, many Georgia state workers who would wish that his head ended up on a spike outside the walls of Kings Landing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, to the media-created public, the idea of the Confederacy is one that is considered pejorative, negatively connoted, and somewhat of an embarrassment, given the blatantly racist and politically incorrect ideals exhibited under it.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still something that actually happened, and for better or worse, it\u2019s a part of history.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a proponent of the saying that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it, and for better or worse, I support the recognition of all history, good and bad.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the things I do resent about the City of Atlanta, because it\u2019s a city that\u2019s so eager to demolish sites and landmarks that are historic, or have the chance to become historic, so that it can be replaced with more high-rise condominiums and skyscrapers.\u00a0 Yes, some things might be places where slavery might have existed at one point, but I do think there\u2019s importance in trying to educate the future, so that perhaps the past might never happen again, but then again, what do I know?<\/span><\/p>\n

But back to the point, this article was more or less written by a guy that\u2019s salty that he had to work on Monday while state workers like myself had the day off (to watch\u00a0Furious7<\/em>).\u00a0 So under the guise of proposed progression AKA white guilt, he writes this asinine word vomit of why Confederate Memorial Day should be ended, probably without thinking of those whom might actually disagree.<\/span><\/p>\n

Including, a substantial number of black people themselves.\u00a0 It\u2019s no secret that Atlanta is a predominantly black city, and it\u2019s also where the state\u2019s capital is, and where a large portion of state workers work, whom are, in some cases, predominantly black.\u00a0 I\u2019m only one segment of the state\u2019s workforce, and my office too is vastly predominantly black.<\/span><\/p>\n

You<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0tell these black people that they can no longer have a paid day off, and see how they react.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funniest thing from the first year I worked in my office was overhearing a black woman in the break room talking to a colleague, and saying the words \u201cOooo, I\u00a0can\u2019t wait<\/strong>\u00a0for Confederate Memorial Day!<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 Naturally, with a paid day off, she clearly had some leisurely plans in mind; frankly nobody cares\u00a0why<\/em>\u00a0the day is off; some may roll their eyes, but not a soul is going to complain about getting a paid day off.<\/span><\/p>\n

Confederate Memorial Day for life.\u00a0\u00a0Bitch<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impetus: Creative Loafing \u201carticle\u201d about how Confederate Memorial Day should be ended. For starters,\u00a0this\u00a0is the \u201cauthor\u201d of said \u201carticle.\u201d\u00a0 Can we say definition of white guilt here?\u00a0 Or should I call it like it really is, which is the dreaded\u00a0slow news day? What the so-called Unofficial Governor of the Day doesn\u2019t seem to realize is … Continue reading Spoken like someone who doesn\u2019t get BEST WORST HOLIDAY off<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,101,15,52,89],"class_list":["post-40347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-holidays","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40349,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40347\/revisions\/40349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}