Which Holidays Do State Workers Get?

Dear Editor,
    I happen to know that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, presumably among other state agencies, gives an optional holiday to its workers for something known as Confederate Heroes Day, one day after the holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The only plausible theory is that the state does not wish to offend its racists by giving them a day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Come on, Texas, I know you can do better than to squander salary dollars on an oxymoronic holiday that contravenes the spirit of the holiday you just gave the previous day. Perhaps by celebrating a step forward one day, then a step backward the next day, you may seem to stand still and thus seem stable. My dear Texas, others may think you're wobbling.