George Washington's Birthday

Today is President’s Day - the ultimate in modern un-exceptionalism and “let’s give all the boys a trophy-ism.” By act of congress, the actual name of today’s holiday remains George Washington’s Birthday. The actual birthday is the 22nd of Feb, but retail requires all holidays fall on a Monday. But the PC crowd has once again had its way. Can’t have a holiday named after a slave holder even if slave holding was a world-wide activity at the time and African tribes were whole hearted partners in the activity and Africa remains one of the last bastions of the activity to this very day.

So while it is popular to focus inwardly on white American complicity in this heinous activity, the black African suppliers of humans more or less get a pass. It is easier for unhappy people to focus their attention on and blame their immigrant brothers for the American opportunity that has been bestowed upon them by the suffering of their ancestors. It’s easier even if the immigrant brothers they blame might have escaped slavery, bondage, indentured status in Europe themselves and arrived in America long after slavery was abolished here. It’s easier to proudly wear a t-shirt with a red, green and black stripped picture of the African continent and ask reparations from people who escaped much the same fate, than to focus on the African tribes who sold their ancestors into slavery in first place.

No black US leader shows up at the African National Congress demanding reparation from the African nations/tribes who sold their ancestors into slavery in the first place. Hell they don’t even show up to ask the ANC to look into black Muslims forcing Christians into slavery on the continent today.

OK fine, let’s give all of the boys a trophy. Let’s just heap Millard Fillmore in the same pile with George Washington. Let’s put Honest Abe on a par with Honest Bill Clinton. Look at the last three words in that sentence. Does anyone think that the word “honest” belongs in the same paragraph with the name Bill Clinton let alone as a modifier?

Only as a laugh line. Happy Honest Bill Clinton day.