Labor Day Holiday Celebration in Retrospect
September 10 2020 By Abiodun Giwa
Last Monday was 2020 Labor Day holiday in the United States. The Labor Day holiday is a yearly ritual and allows for workers to observe the day and many workers see it as a God Given opportunity to enjoy the day. It is a day workers throw away the work at hand, in the words of Lionel Richie in "All Night Long", to dance and party.
Many workers believe there is nothing comparable to dancing and partying after a year long of hard work. Conversely, there are scores of workers in the service sector who seize the opportunity of the day as a public holiday to go to work and make double or triple of their hourly earning, preferable than being on the street considered not very safe in a place like New York City, where partying through the night and often results in bullets flying on Labor Day.
Bullets also flew last Monday during Labor Day celebration in Brooklyn, but the victims survived. Rare good news like that on Labor Day that bullet victims survived. And wonderfully, there seemed to have no news of death from Brooklyn last Monday amid Labor Day celebration and the Black Lives Matter protest across the country. Another reason for celebration and throw away the work at hand to party.
The orgy of Labor Day Holiday celebration, the all-night party, the street procession with men, women, and children in national costumes, and some women in near nakedness are unforgettable. A former security guard's first time work on a Labor Day at a Pharmacy in Brooklyn speaks about his experience in what he calls a Baptism of Fire and ho he escaped what would have been a deadly experience.
"During the 2003 Labor Day, I was posted to work at a Pharmacy at the junction of Utica Avenue and East New York Avenue. The location was less than six blocks to the congregation center for the carnival procession. It was my first Labor Day holiday in the U.S. The story about the women in costumes was fascinating, and I looked forward to be part of the experience. The story i heard about the Labor Day celebration proved true. I saw what I never saw in my life before then, because the store was where most of the people stopped to pick up items they needed at the congregation center on Eastern Parkway. But all of a sudden, some bad guys entered the store with knives in their hands. My hunch told me i got to hide away from danger, since as a security guard I could be the target of the guys who might want to conceal their shoplifting activities and get away without getting apprehended. I entered the staff break room and locked myself in, while I looked at the shoplifters roaming freely in the store through the pinhole. At the same time, I went on my phone and called the police. The police arrived in less than nine minutes, but the bad guys had left the store. Three days later, the store manager called me to his office and said the store paid $500 to the police for my 911 call. He queried me verbally why I did not alert the assistant store manager on duty to the arrival of the bad guys instead of the 911 call. I told him there was no way I could have reached the assistant store manager for a verbal report without the bad guys reaching me, and that I did what was the morally possible to save my life and save the stores merchandize from deadly shoplifters."
According to the story in retrospect, the first lesson to learn about Labor Day celebration in Brooklyn is about how to ensure one do not join the list of Labor Day celebration victims. And the reason the 2020 celebration should be cheered for no death victim, despite five persons that were reportedly shot. And then, we can be assured of death free Labor day celebration and we can dance to Lionel Richie's tune in "All Night Long."
Many workers believe there is nothing comparable to dancing and partying after a year long of hard work. Conversely, there are scores of workers in the service sector who seize the opportunity of the day as a public holiday to go to work and make double or triple of their hourly earning, preferable than being on the street considered not very safe in a place like New York City, where partying through the night and often results in bullets flying on Labor Day.
Bullets also flew last Monday during Labor Day celebration in Brooklyn, but the victims survived. Rare good news like that on Labor Day that bullet victims survived. And wonderfully, there seemed to have no news of death from Brooklyn last Monday amid Labor Day celebration and the Black Lives Matter protest across the country. Another reason for celebration and throw away the work at hand to party.
The orgy of Labor Day Holiday celebration, the all-night party, the street procession with men, women, and children in national costumes, and some women in near nakedness are unforgettable. A former security guard's first time work on a Labor Day at a Pharmacy in Brooklyn speaks about his experience in what he calls a Baptism of Fire and ho he escaped what would have been a deadly experience.
"During the 2003 Labor Day, I was posted to work at a Pharmacy at the junction of Utica Avenue and East New York Avenue. The location was less than six blocks to the congregation center for the carnival procession. It was my first Labor Day holiday in the U.S. The story about the women in costumes was fascinating, and I looked forward to be part of the experience. The story i heard about the Labor Day celebration proved true. I saw what I never saw in my life before then, because the store was where most of the people stopped to pick up items they needed at the congregation center on Eastern Parkway. But all of a sudden, some bad guys entered the store with knives in their hands. My hunch told me i got to hide away from danger, since as a security guard I could be the target of the guys who might want to conceal their shoplifting activities and get away without getting apprehended. I entered the staff break room and locked myself in, while I looked at the shoplifters roaming freely in the store through the pinhole. At the same time, I went on my phone and called the police. The police arrived in less than nine minutes, but the bad guys had left the store. Three days later, the store manager called me to his office and said the store paid $500 to the police for my 911 call. He queried me verbally why I did not alert the assistant store manager on duty to the arrival of the bad guys instead of the 911 call. I told him there was no way I could have reached the assistant store manager for a verbal report without the bad guys reaching me, and that I did what was the morally possible to save my life and save the stores merchandize from deadly shoplifters."
According to the story in retrospect, the first lesson to learn about Labor Day celebration in Brooklyn is about how to ensure one do not join the list of Labor Day celebration victims. And the reason the 2020 celebration should be cheered for no death victim, despite five persons that were reportedly shot. And then, we can be assured of death free Labor day celebration and we can dance to Lionel Richie's tune in "All Night Long."
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