Ohio Army veteran's mic turned down while speaking of black people's role in creating Memorial Day

Just the News ^ | June 3, 2021 | Nicholas Sherman

[Laslo Fripp]

Great video. Thanks 😊

[lurked_for_a_decade]

Your Welcome.

I also really like this one two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIWesZDV8_Q

[lurked_for_a_decade]

two = to

[Captain Rhino]

Prior observances go back to the Civil War:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day

The holiday observed on 11 November is Veterans Day:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yeah, and dozens of towns in PA claim to be the inventors. In the US, at least.

Decoration Day is not purely an American thing anyway. But no one seems to have fully recorded what happened well before WWI Armistice Day was converted into a nationwide Memorial Day.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Oh crud. I conflated Memorial with Veterans. Sorry.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Poorly written. I mean, as in child-like Ebonics grammar.

[foreverfree]

bump

[freepersup]

to = too

;0)

[CheshireTheCat]

Update:

Ohio American Legion commander calls for resignations of 2 Hudson members who cut mic during veteran’s speech

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2021/06/ohio-american-legion-commander-calls-for-resignations-of-2-hudson-members-who-cut-mic-during-vets-speech.html

Hudson veteran inundated with calls from CNN, The New York Times following viral video Memorial Day speech where his audio was turned off

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/06/hudson-veteran-inundated-with-calls-from-cnn-the-new-york-times-following-viral-video-memorial-day-speech-where-his-audio-was-turned-off.html

[CheshireTheCat]

Sorry. I forgot to ping you on this one.

[Lowell1775]

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Ohio Army veteran’s mic turned down while speaking of black people’s role in creating Memorial Day
Just the News ^ | June 3, 2021 | Nicholas Sherman
Posted on 6/3/2021, 5:52:30 PM by CheshireTheCat

[Fiji Hill]

The Colonel was very likely correct, as a statement of historical fact. But these days, any public remarks including the phrase ‘black slaves’ while voiced by a white guy is probably going to make some listeners a little nervous, even if complimentary. Especially if they had never heard this before, as I haven’t.

So you're saying that white people should no longer say the term "black slaves" to a black audience because it is politically incorrect?

[lee martell]

Using proper logic, no. People can say what they wish, regardless of color. However, there are a lot of folks today who don’t listen closely enough to hear certain words and phrases in their proper context. These people will jump to conclusions based on habit.

He only had a short period of time to speak. He needed what amounts to an Elevator Pitch to get his message across. Within that time, it would have been best to keep it all short, simple and very familiar.

Were he speaking to a group of graduates from a military academy, they would most likely have been able to understand his message as intended. They would (hopefully) been able to resist the Pavlovian/ lazy thinking approach of being ‘triggered’ by certain words and phrases.