Another isolated incident of racism that doesn't say anything negative about America

[StarfishSaver]

because not ALL organizers try to stop audiences from hearing about the Black people who founded Memorial Day on Memorial Day.

Organizer cuts off veteran's mic when he discusses role Black people played in origins of Memorial Day

The audio was cut on a veteran’s microphone at a Memorial Day event in Hudson, Ohio, shortly after he began discussing the role Black people played in the holiday’s origins in an incident that local media report was no accident.
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During his speech, Kemter, whom the Journal reported was the keynote speaker for the event, discussed the history of the holiday, including the discovery of newspaper clippings and handwritten notes that showed a group of freed Black people were among the first to commemorate the holiday following the surrender of the Confederacy.
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But about a minute after, Kemter’s microphone was cut roughly halfway through his address. The veteran could be seen trying to alert someone off-camera about his microphone after realizing something was wrong, continuing to address the audience.

According to the Journal, an organizer for the event confirmed to the outlet that either she or another organizer had the audio cut.

The organizer, Cindy Suchan, told the paper that the portion of Kemter’s speech in which the audio was cut “was not relevant to our program for the day” and that the “theme of the day was honoring Hudson veterans.”

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/556607-organizer-cuts-off-veterans-mic-when-he-discusses-role-black

[Solly Mack]

1. How is the history of Memorial Day not relevant to Memorial Day?

They "honor" veterans by silencing the voice of a veteran?

an organizer for the event confirmed to the outlet that either she or another organizer had the audio cut.

Come now, Cindy Suchan, don't be such a coward. Own your decision

Her answer suggests she told another organizer to cut the mike.

[StarfishSaver]

2. I mean, really

[Solly Mack]

11. He wasn't going along with the long held tradition of the accepted narrative of the commemoration.

There's the truth of an event and the agreed upon narrative.

Correcting history scares people. As we have both noticed.

[brewens]

5. The history of Thanksgiving isn't relevant is it? LOL Of course a lot of what we were taught

about that when I was a kid was bullshit. Plus they left most of the really important stuff out. You never get through Thanksgiving without getting a little bit of some version of it's history.

[Solly Mack]

10. The agreed upon narrative is always relevant to the coordinating holiday. (there is a but coming)

Tis the reason for the holiday.

But...

Facts and truth don't necessarily come into play in the agreed upon narrative.

Myths and symbols are powerful tools of persuasion/manipulation/acceptance w/o question.

[mountain grammy]

3. Wow.

[brush]

4. Racists are always going to be racist. Can't help themselves (see Tulsa).

[czarjak]

6. Just more suckers and losers? Someone believes so.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. This was a total dick-move by these organizers ...

It used be called Decoration Day.

A blurb from the History Channel:

Early Observances of Memorial Day

The Civil War, which ended in the spring of 1865, claimed more lives than any conflict in U.S. history and required the establishment of the country’s first national cemeteries.

By the late 1860s, Americans in various towns and cities had begun holding springtime tributes to these countless fallen soldiers, decorating their graves with flowers and reciting prayers.

It is unclear where exactly this tradition originated; numerous different communities may have independently initiated the memorial gatherings. And some records show that one of the earliest Memorial Day commemorations was organized by a group of formerly enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina less than a month after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865. Nevertheless, in 1966 the federal government declared Waterloo, New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day.

Waterloo—which first celebrated the day on May 5, 1866—was chosen because it hosted an annual, community-wide event, during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags.

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/memorial-day-history

[Mersky]

8. With much grace and strength, he doesn't skip a beat and keeps going

Really gets to me.

[VMA131Marine]

9. Cindy Suchan is getting justifiably hammered for this on her FB page

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10225426854237374&id=1205500378&anchor_composer=false

[StarfishSaver]

12. LOL

I can't believe that page is still up.

I guess she's not as good at cutting off Facebook comments from strangers telling her about herself as she is at cutting off the mic of a veteran trying to tell her about Black folks starting Memorial Day.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. K&R