It’s that time of year again, when we are all reminded that the state of South Carolina and eight of the state’s 46 counties actually close government offices and give non-essential employees a day off to celebrate soldiers who died in a war 264 years ago trying to keep Black people as slaves.
Lexington County is one of the eight. Wednesday, it announced Friday’s closures on Facebook without citing the reason, perhaps out of embarrassment. County Council members certainly should be embarrassed for celebrating a day that our government shouldn’t commemorate given the hatred at its heart.
The post simply said, “All Lexington County offices will be closed on Friday, May 9, and will reopen during normal business hours on Monday, May 12.”…