You nailed it!
Before MLK day was a holiday; we used to have ‘speakers’ about Black this-or-that in the afternoon, after lunch, where I worked.
One could get an hour off work just by going to these.
It was a great time to take a nap.
We have those all the time, for every kind of heritage you can imagine.
The last one I attended (after being coerced by my boss) was the 2009 Black History Month presentation. I was so angry by the time the speaker finished I marched right up to him after the presentation and challenged him on several things he said.
It was an hour long Obama love fest, with a heaping helping of republicans are idiots and black republicans are traitors. The republicans in the room were absolutely frozen in their chairs, just staring at this guy. The boss was watching or we all would have walked out.
I vowed never to attend another of of these fiascos. And since I’m boycotting one group, it’s only fair that I boycott them all.
I’m holding out for Amish Heritage Month. Then and only then will I consider going.
One could get an hour off work just by going to these.
It was a great time to take a nap.
*chuckle* I once had to attend “mandatory diversity training” and groused about it at GREAT length. Then a cow-orker pointed out that he was getting paid to sit eating doughnuts instead of pulling wires through filthy chaseways and ceilings. “Let ‘me talk all they want!”
The course was given by academics; i.e. useless eaters that were unqualified anything else.