Finally Standing Against Woke And Cancel Culture

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Many people may think that the "woke" and "cancel culture" parties are in the majority. The fact is that they are not. And finally what has often been referred to as the "silent majority" have risen up and said no more at Randolph Middle School in New Jersey. Whether or not this marks the beginning of a new movement of people tired of political correctness, tired of woke and cancel culture, and tired of rewriting history (or outright denying it), is yet to be seen. But in this microcosm example at this middle school in New Jersey clearly the majority spoke up and had their voices heard and at the same time caused the woke and cancel culture crowd to swiftly reverse course. Essentially what had happened was that the board made a decision to change the Columbus Day holiday on their calendar to Indigenous People's Day. After backlash from the Italian-American community the school board thought they would solve the problem by simply cancelling all holidays on the calendar and simply mark them as a Day Off. The people said enough, with Ralph Contini of Unico National, an Italian-American service organization telling the board, "In your attempt to be woke, you've waken up the entire community of Randolph," he said. "We draw the line in the sand. You have overreached. Enough is enough." And it's not just about Columbus Day in the larger picture of course. It is something that has outraged Americans across the country where parts of our heritage and history, where iconic figures and historical monuments, and sports teams are all being forced by a minority group of people to be cancelled, denied, and erased. But clearly this was a boiling point, at least in Randolph. This was a reaction actually not uncommon at most people's dinner tables and family gatherings across America. This was just nearly the first time someone—in fact 400 people—stood up and actually said it out loud in a public forum, and said it directly to the people who cow tow to the pressures of the minority woke and cancel culture crowd. I think it is high time we see more and more of this, and I do hope that the national attention Randolph has received inspires the silent majority to take more of a stand against this minority group of troublemakers and help to restore some sanity to what has become an almost ridiculous attack against our entire history, good or bad, and a mad hatter attempt to rewrite our stories and our history to fit some pie in the sky narrative of apology and denial. I applaud Randolph for, at least in a small way, in a very small part of the country, allowing a guy like me to restore just a smidgen of faith back in this beautiful America I live in that lately has felt like a very bad and strange episode of the Twilight Zone.