Submitted on Saturday 20th June 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 7th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make March 25th a National Holiday, to commemorate the abolition of Slavery
I want to humbly ask your Right Honourable Members of the Houses to please institute Emancipation Day. A day to understand the history of slavery, and its legacy in society, the triumph of the abolitionists over this evil. I want you to fund community groups to celebrate diversity and its education.
If you grant us this day as a National Holiday, you will allow us all to focus on, celebrate, respect and honour our history and communities together. You will help us remember that we can all be different, together and proud! It will be a day for society to join and celebrate together in brotherhood and solidarity. It will help promote justice, highlight marginalization and modern inequalities and modern slavery and to heal the cracks in our society, right now, and for our children's tomorrow.
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