"I'm getting verklempt." The NYC Labor Day Parade is NOT on Labor Day. Discuss.
(And it's not on May Day either.)
It's on the following Saturday. (This year, on September 12th.)
http://www.nycclc.org/event/2015-nyc-labor-day-parade-sep-12-2015
Apparently.... the date (Labor Day) was given up by the local unions, some years ago, in deference to (yet another) NYC ethnic celebration.
In this case the West Indian Day Parade. Which I BELIEVE actually takes place in Brooklyn. The actual Labor Day Parade has always and will continue to be held in *Manhattan*. Just not on Labor Day.
Got that? ( These are the facts as I understand them. If I'm in error, feel free to set me straight, as it were.)
Question: should labor, labor unions, working people, class issues, etc. etc. take a back seat to ethnic pride ?
Is this a pattern?
Does this reflect the continued and ongoing trivialization of "labor, labor unions, working people, class issues, etc. etc." in the society at large?
Are those concerns being intentionally ( or inadvertently) being supplanted/obscured by concerns and issues centering on ethnicity and the desire to self- identify by ethnicity... as opposed to for example, by class... or membership in a labor union ?
Does your city ( to non NYers) follow a similar policy?
Is this "progress"?
Talk amongst yourselves.
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