Give us FREE! ~ EP 93

And also a month long observance is Black Business Month, and that focuses on supporting black owned businesses, economic equity.

Also, back to school month.

I know a lot of parents are saying, thank you, Jeebus.

I don't look forward to buses on my commute.

OK, I don't.

Buses are the feds.

As soon as they put that stop sign out, you need to stop it on either side because they will send you a suggestive ticket in the mail.

This month also holds National Purple Heart Day.

It's honoring military members wounded or killed.

Thank you for your service.

International Day of World's Indigenous Peoples.

So everywhere around the world, basically, where the occupants are indigenous to that land, it is International Day of that land.

those peoples, right? We also have International Youth Day, World Humanitarian Day this month, and the very notable Women's Equality Day, and that commemorates women's suffrage.

Now, for that day, it marks the 1920 adoption of the 19th Amendment, and that granted women the right to vote in the Now, I was getting that kind of confused with there was something that I was reading that only 38 states signed something to make women equal rights or something like that.

This is different from that.

So the Equality Day, the 1920 with the 19th Amendment, that's completely different from this one.

I was thinking of the Equal Rights Amendment.

And that guarantees legal rights regardless of sex.

So it looks like 38 states initially signed it.

And Virginia was the last one to just sign that in 2020.

But right now it's stuck in limbo because Congress set a 1982 ratification deadline that's already passed.

Obviously, in 1982.

So there's an ongoing legal battle, political basically debates over if it can be officially added to the U.S. Constitution.

What is the holdup? Give us us.

You know what I mean? Like, yeah, let's get those equal rights going.