So, you're saying . . . even though folks know it's wrong, they should just go along with it?I think it's just a function of having a specific "holiday" in place already: all the celebrations, rap bands playing in the parks, etc. etc.: you're not just manufacturing an event out of whole cloth like you would with any of the other "major dates" in emancipation.. Those would be starting from scratch, this has well over a century of celebratory history already attached, even if it has only "spread" relatively recently. It's already packaged up nicely with traditions and such already in place.
Doesn't that run contrary to the idea of celebrating emancipation?