The People Have Spoken
If you’re like me, you had never heard of Randolph, New Jersey…until the school board there decided to all go woke and take the names of holidays off the school year calendar. Students would still have December 25th off, but not as “Christmas”…rather, designated as a “day off”. Students would still have January 1st off, but not as “New Year’s Day”…rather, designated simply as “day off”.
That did not sit well with the locals, who turned out in force at a special board meeting there Monday night. Some 400 people came to the meeting; 50 of them spoke at the public session, which lasted some four hours.
The board dug itself a hole last month when it changed “Columbus Day” to “Indigenous People’s Day”…and in response to that, simply decided to get rid of all names for days off…talk about going from bad to worse.
One resident said the day after that no-names vote, “I woke up and found out that my town had turned into a nationwide embarrassment”.
Now the town has turned into a model for the rest of us. There was no violence in the streets, no burning down of buildings…instead, citizens turning out at a public meeting—some of them passionately vocal—to tell their elected representatives they had done wrong. The board then voted 8-1 to go back to the calendar language they had before all this started.
If you don’t like what your representatives are doing, tell them. Get a group of friends, and tell them. That doesn’t mean to issue physical threats, break the law, or anything like that. Rationally state your case and show you have folks on your side.
Worked in Randolph, New Jersey. And, very likely if we want, elsewhere too.
