Actually the law was passed during the reign of that great Democrat, Benjamin “Pitchfork” Tillman, when the state legislature was fully Democrat controlled. Dems controlled all of the SC “gubamint” from 1878 until 1990. the law was revitalized in response to the over reach of the SC NAACP during the Confederate flag hubub. After the flag was removed, the NAACP failed to live up to their end of the agreement. oh, the flag was put on top of the state house by, yes, you guessed it, democrats.
I have never understood why a state such as ours, that has been so strongly held and guided by Judeo-Christian values for basically its entire history (although it has waned somewhat in recent years), never recognizes Good Friday as a state holiday, but keeps Confederate Memorial Day. I’d rather give up Christmas – which was never Christ’s birthday anyway and has become essentially a materialistic gluttony-fest, and instead observe Good Friday.
Congaree Cat Fish Top Fan, I agree.
The 7th of January, the Eastern Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and (until recently) the Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas, became a national holiday in majority-Muslim Egypt long after I had graduated medical school With Honors and came to the U.S. of a very expedited and very selective subset of the Fulbright Scholarships.
But it was not a state holiday, or a university holiday, in my first academic year at university, which I had joined at age 17 from a private missionary all-girls high school, where both the Eastern and Western Christmases and other Christian holidays were days off.
What to do? We Coptic Christian students asked ourselves. I decided and advised in French “C’est plus chretien de venir et faire son devoir que de celebrer.” And basically, the majority of my Coptic colleagues agreed with me and showed up for the scheduled lectures. Only our Moslems colleagues had assumed we will not show up and the lectures will be cancelled on account of our being a near-majority of the student body (though a minority in the population at large) and did not show up. So the Eastern Orthodox Christmas ended up that year (1971) being a holiday for Moslem students at university.
Just a true story you would not hear from anyone other than I.
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Because South Carolina primary voting republicans/rednecks are losers? And enjoy celebrating losing?
Actually the law was passed during the reign of that great Democrat, Benjamin “Pitchfork” Tillman, when the state legislature was fully Democrat controlled. Dems controlled all of the SC “gubamint” from 1878 until 1990. the law was revitalized in response to the over reach of the SC NAACP during the Confederate flag hubub. After the flag was removed, the NAACP failed to live up to their end of the agreement. oh, the flag was put on top of the state house by, yes, you guessed it, democrats.
I’m ready o do it again.
Thanks for a fine article. As Lincoln so eloquently put it: “We cannot escape history… We will be remembered in spite of ourselves.”
I have never understood why a state such as ours, that has been so strongly held and guided by Judeo-Christian values for basically its entire history (although it has waned somewhat in recent years), never recognizes Good Friday as a state holiday, but keeps Confederate Memorial Day. I’d rather give up Christmas – which was never Christ’s birthday anyway and has become essentially a materialistic gluttony-fest, and instead observe Good Friday.
Congaree Cat Fish Top Fan, I agree.
The 7th of January, the Eastern Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and (until recently) the Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas, became a national holiday in majority-Muslim Egypt long after I had graduated medical school With Honors and came to the U.S. of a very expedited and very selective subset of the Fulbright Scholarships.
But it was not a state holiday, or a university holiday, in my first academic year at university, which I had joined at age 17 from a private missionary all-girls high school, where both the Eastern and Western Christmases and other Christian holidays were days off.
What to do? We Coptic Christian students asked ourselves. I decided and advised in French “C’est plus chretien de venir et faire son devoir que de celebrer.” And basically, the majority of my Coptic colleagues agreed with me and showed up for the scheduled lectures. Only our Moslems colleagues had assumed we will not show up and the lectures will be cancelled on account of our being a near-majority of the student body (though a minority in the population at large) and did not show up. So the Eastern Orthodox Christmas ended up that year (1971) being a holiday for Moslem students at university.
Just a true story you would not hear from anyone other than I.
Republicans reviewed the holiday and decided it was all white to keep it.