Column: Eliminating national holidays is a promising idea. Start with the racist ones
Whether you believe or believe, France has done some kind of social security since the 1600s, and its modern system began in 1910, when world life expectancy was only 32 years old. Today, an average person is 83 years old for 75 and the highest in Europe for the French.
Great news for the French, bad news for pension.
Since people live longer, mathematics that finance their pensions in France is no longer mathematics, and now about 114% of the country’s debt GDP. A few years ago, remember that the protesters were on fire because they set fire to Paris because President Emmanuel Macron proposed to raise his legal retirement age from 62 to 64. Well, now Prime Minister Francois Bayrou proposed to eliminate two national holidays to address the country’s debt.
In 2023, before Paris burned, approximately 50,000 people in Denmark gathered outside the parliament to express their anger to leave one of the national holidays of the country. The roots of the great prayer day extend to the 1600s. Eliminating the hopes of production and tax revenue brought together unions, a rare Trifekta opposed political parties and churches. This explains why they were closed for holidays to challenge the official change in 2024.
This week Bayrou proposed to eliminate the Easter Monday and Victory Day holidays of France, which pointed to the defeat of Nazi Germany. In a Reuters survey, 70% of the participants did not like the idea, so we will see if Paris started to burn again. Or maybe citizens will take a clue from the Danish, and even if the government decides to continue it as usual, they won’t work in those days.
Here, President Trump created the idea of eliminating one of the national holidays. However, I will assume that the tax revenue is not the only motivation for that day’s comments, since Juneteenth revealed the idea of Juneteenth through a social media article about “not working too much”. You know, considering it crusade Against the efforts of corporate and diversity of government; his Refusal to apologize In order to call the death penalty for five innocent colored boys; and the approval of Crocodile Alcatraz. However, I agree with what I said about Juneteenth in 2020, while the President contradicted the 2025 statements about the holidays about the holiday: “Actually, an important event is an important time.”
Actually.
Although the Slavery Institution enables this country to become a global power rapidly, the studies show that the biggest economic gains in the history of the country have come from the end of slavery – otherwise it is known as Juneteenth. The two economists found that the economic return of the secluded people were larger than the introduction of railways and 7 to 60 years of technological innovation in the second half of the 19th century ”. According to the University of Chicago. From where? Because the final calculations have shown that the cost of enslaving people for centuries is much greater than their economic benefits.
In 1492, when Christopher Columbus “discovered America”, civilizations have been developing in these lands for thousands of years. In 1621, the colonists introduced slavery to these shores two years before the first “Thanksgiving Day”. King XIV Louis Louis has been more than 50 years after Louis started France’s first retirement; 60 years before King Christian V approval of the Grand Prayer Day; And 157 years before the 13 colony declared independence from England on 4 July 1776.
One of the national holidays in the Western world is one of the most important historical ones of Juneteenth. Nevertheless, he just won the federal definition and remained vulnerable. The transatlantic slave trade has transformed the global economy, but the figures show that it is Juneteenth, who put America to the top. This says that the clue of the President’s elimination is that everything about our magnitude and an elected official is not related to the worldview. approved By Ku Klux Klan newspaper.
If it comes to the point where we seriously think about a holiday, like France and Denmark – my vote is for gratitude. The retail sector acts as an increase in speed between Halloween and Christmas, and when it re -describes its origins, keeping it is not a holiday worth a protest.
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Ideas expressed in the piece
- LZ Granderson advocates the elimination of national holidays, but argues that it should start with historically problematic ones, emphasizing the best candidate for lifting the origins of Şükran’s Day in colonialism and slavery.
- Considering the past debate of President Trump, Trump, which includes the approval of a racial and KKK -related newspaper, criticizes the proposal to reduce the holidays motivated as racist.
- Granderson advocates Juneteenth as an economic transformative, showing his research that the end of slavery encourages an unprecedented growth and condemns any efforts to cancel this holiday.
- It supports the reduction of the holidays for financial reasons by referring to France and Denmark as a model, but emphasizes that the election should give priority to justice in comfort.
Different opinions on the subject
- French Prime Minister François Bayrou suggested to frame France’s debt (114% of GDP) and finance the defense needs by cutting Monday and Second World War Victory Day to increase the economic output and tax revenue.[1][2][4].
- The plan was immediately encountered: 70% of the French citizens opposed it in the surveys, the unions condemned it and the over -right national rally, the largest party of parliament, rejected it[2].
- Historical precedent warns against such movements; France’s attempt to scrape Pentecost on Monday[3].
- Denmark’s abolition of the Great Prayer Day in 2023 triggered the mass challenge, and schools and businesses are still closing – provided deep cultural commitment to holidays.
- Unlike Granderson’s focus on racial justice, macroeconomic arguments dominate abroad: Bayrou claimed that “Holy Cheese” holiday clusters will facilitate productivity without targeting certain historical narratives.[1][2][4].




