Obama Gets National Holiday: What Do You Think?
All across the country there are plans underway for Obama to get a national holiday. In my opinion this whole idea of an Obama Holiday is premature. For real, the man has not even began to serve his presidential term yet. Moreover, holidays are given to deceased and you have to be dead before you can be memorialized.
I did a little research on this subject matter and this is what I found:
A Civil Rights Organization in Kansas has launched a campaign to designate Nov. 4 as a national holiday, commemorating the election of Barack Obama as president.
Kenya already has a national holiday for the president elect. Barack’s father was born in Kenya and he has a large extended family there.
A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect.
It should be noted that Obama lost in the state of Alabama. An Associated Press exit poll found black voters in Alabama almost universally supported Obama while more than eight in 10 whites backed Republican John McCain. McCain carried the state with 60 percent of the vote. The state of Georgia is another state where Obama got the majority of the black votes, but lost due to it being a red state with a majority of whites.
I do not see a holiday for the president elect until after his term expires. We must be mindful, there are some whites who can not believe, a man who would have been sent to the back of the bus in the 1950s will soon be riding on Air Force One.
