Dear Source:
Dear Governor: There is a letter today on St. Thomas Source that I would have written myself had I not been so darned busy!
It's of course MLK day today, so federal and local government offices are closed (I should add that of course the private sector for the most part continues business as usual) but for you to give the government workers another day off just because Obama is black and thus his inauguration is auspicious is, in my opinion, incomprehensible and so self-defeating. I'm not sure that even the President-elect would enjoin such an action.
I will probably not be watching the broo ha ha of the inauguration hoopla. Of course I'm a fan (I think in all honesty I would be a fan of whoever followed Dubbya!) but I'm seriously tiring of hearing what an historic occasion this is because he's black. Don't misunderstand me, it is of course an historic occasion where Americans are concerned but when you hail from anywhere else in the world where both women and blacks have been both elected and titular heads of state and monarchs for such a long time, the American hype about it only serves to demonstrate how way backwards the American populace really is.
Uh-oh, I think I'm going to be misunderstood here but hopefully you get my point? I don't give a rat's patootie about Obama's hue – to me he simply represents a breath of intelligent, educated and eloquent fresh air in what's become a mud pond.
I know you are doing a good job but I think you messed up a bit here by declaring an Inauguration holiday. I think I already know the answer for the most part but have local government jurisdictions on the mainland given their employees a paid holiday?
Anna Clarke
St. Thomas
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