I don't think this should be a national holiday. I also don't think MLK day or Columbus day should be.
Irish people were opressed and we don't have St Patrick's day. Chinese people were oppressed and they don't have Chinese new year. Gay people were oppressed and they don't get a day. Women were oppressed and they don't have a day.
Where does it stop?
No, they get thirty. They get a whole month. The slave drivers just don't give us the month off, I think you mean.
Yes that is what I mean, not a federal holiday.
Women were not oppressed.
You have become the Baghdad Bob and Hanoi Hannah of RPF.
So....I'm going to kick myself for saying this, but [MENTION=65299]Swordsmyth[/MENTION] is actually correct. Bill Burr pointed this out in an excellent SNL opener a few years ago. The part about women grabbing the victimhood card is made at around 3:25.
"You guys (white women) stuck beside us (white men) through centuries of our crimes against humanity. You rolled around in the blood money. And occasionally if you stuck off to get with a black dude and you got caught you said it wasn't consensual. So why don't you shut up, sit down next to me and take your talking to?"

But he makes a brilliant point. In terms of economics, white women were in no way left behind. As their fathers, brothers, husbands moved ahead, they were pulled right along economically just the same. And long before there was a man of any race as President Of The United States there were women monarchs on every continent.
As for gays getting the whole month of June, Bill Burr jokes about that too. "Oh. It's pride month. That's a little long for people who were never enslaved. How do black people get February, only 28 days, the sun goes down a 4 pm, everybody is shivering, nobody wants to go to the parade."
And...at the end of the day....it's just jokes people. Lighten up.
Oh, and SS is correct that the first person ever to convert his indentured servant to a permanent slave was an African American who was once and indentured servant. I've read the decision. It seems the indentured servant wanted to go to a different master and rather than just send him back to AA master as per contract the court made the slavery permanent.