It’s Asian-American “Heritage” Month
May 4th, 2009
Dude, what?
Congress passed a joint Congressional Resolution in 1978 to commemorate Asian American Heritage Week during the first week of May.
This date was chosen because two important anniversaries occurred during this time: the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants in America on May 7, 1843 and the completion of the transcontinental railroad (by many Chinese laborers) on May 10, 1869.
OK. Celebrating Asian-American heritage with the first arrivals of immigrants makes sense.
But celebrating a milestone in slave labor? This would be like celebrating Black Heritage Month the day the last bale of cotton was shipped from the very last plantation of the Confederacy.