Emancipation Day 2011 Tax Deadline Extension

2011 Tax Filing Deadline Extension Gives Taxpayers Three Extra Days to File

Three extra days given to taxpayers in observation of Emancipation Day, a holiday observed in the District of Columbia which extends to the rest of the country when it falls on April 15. 

When Thomas Jefferson wrote that all men were created equal, it was not quite an accurate statement and it has taken over 200 years for America to achieve a semblance of true equality. About a hundred years after America was founded, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery, but it took nearly another hundred years for the Civil Rights movement to bring near-equal rights to African Americans. The Emancipation Day holiday this year is a reminder that although technically free, many Americans do not enjoy equal rights or opportunities because of a deep-seated belief the Black race is inferior and not worthy of the Constitution’s equal rights protections.
There is a disease-like sentiment among many in the South that races other than white are inferior, and it is quite possible that if given the opportunity, these Southerners would revoke the Emancipation Proclamation and return to the Founding Fathers’ time when African American slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person. Many of the Draconian spending cuts the Republican majority in the House proposed target poor minorities and women because for whatever reason, those groups are not considered equal to white males. Racial discrimination is so ingrained in many Americans’ minds that they believe interracial marriage is wrong.
In a recent poll, 46% of Mississippi Republicans said that interracial marriage should be illegal and 14% were not sure if the idea is acceptable. The poll targeted Republican voters, but the numbers are surprisingly high suggesting that many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, have a negative view of interracial marriage and by extension, other races. Many of the anti-miscegenationists, persons opposed to interracial marriage, cite scriptures from the bible to support their opposition, although many theologians dispute the Christian bible’s meanings in scriptures that forbid marriage outside of one’s own race.  The disapproval and resistance to interracial marriage seems to hinge on the belief that the white race is superior and not to be polluted with an inferior race. It is not, however, surprising that Republicans do not believe non-white people deserve freedom or equal treatment.
Women are increasingly the target of assaults by Republicans in Congress and state legislatures that are meant to keep women in a subservient role much like slavery. In 1920 women won the right to vote with the passage of the 19^th Amendment but it took until the 1960’s when the women’s liberation movement lobbied for equal pay, equal rights in law, and the freedom to plan their families or not have children at all that women made some real strides. However, women still have not been emancipated from male-dominated society and suffer from discrimination in health care, equal pay, and the right to choose their reproductive health at the hands of Republicans.
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