Texas employees get Friday off to celebrate "Confederate heroes"

[TexasTowelie]

by Sydney Greene, Texas Tribune


Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday isn't the only holiday this week for state employees in Texas. They can also take off Friday for a state holiday that has been a source of controversy: Confederate Heroes Day.

Confederate Heroes Day is a skeleton crew holiday, when state employees can take a paid day off but state offices remain open. Employees who work can take another day off instead, according to Kevin Lyons of the Texas comptroller's office. Other skeleton crew holidays include Texas Independence Day and San Jacinto Day.

Some lawmakers attempted in 2015 and 2017 to change the name of the holiday to "Civil War Remembrance Day" and move the date to avoid occasional conflicts with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but the measure never gained traction.

“We’re not talking about wiping out that part of history — or those that may be our family members who fought in the Confederacy,” said state Rep. Donna Howard, author of the 2015 proposal. “But we are saying that it needs to be inclusive of everyone else and reflect the way we want to recognize what happened ... and the fact that we are the United States now.”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/19/some-texas-employees-get-today-celebrate-confederate-heroes/

[Cattledog]

1. Would Germany have a Nazi heroes day?

Don't think so.

[rownesheck]

2. Ugh.

Texas: the dumbass-ness knows no bounds. Maybe Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and the entire Rio Grande region can split off and form new Texas. It would be oddly shaped, but worth it. Better yet, the "piney woods" east Texas area should split off completely and float off into the gulf of Mexico and be named south Alabississippi. Awful people out there. So glad i got out.