You see that is your problem.. you categorize everything by "descent".. who the **** cares? It all depends on how far you go back. I have Jewish, Catholic, Polish, German, and god knows what else "ancestry" in me. But so what? I am Danish, I have a Danish passport... that is what matters, not that my great great great great great grandmother fled what is now Germany due to Catholic-Protestant religious wars of the 1500s and was of royal blood.. great for stories, but does it matter? Of course not. Or that at some point a Polish immigrant married into the family.. so what...!
Are they not all Americans? And yes it can be wrong, because to continues a racist past in dividing up your citizens according to race. This in turn fuels the racism in the 21st century, because people are divided up based on race (even fake race like Hispanic) on everything.. That all your statistics are racially based, that people still identify as "African American", "Asian-American" or similar.. is a problem. You are Americans, and yet the African/Asian/Irish/Jewish/Muslim goes before being an American? Are Americans ashamed of being American and have to cling to so sort of ancestral link that could be 300+ years old?
I dont call my self a Christian Danish, and we dont call people Black Danish or Asian Danish.. why? Because it does not matter.
So when this thread was started with "Black Americans" in the thread... it only emphasises the racism problem in America. Is it at all relevant that a couple of black Americans invented the holiday? No.. it was Americans that did it.. that is all that matters. That they were black, white, red, blue, green or yellow.. is absolutely irrelevant. And to make the problem even worse in my opinion, the fact that it was "black Americans" and not their actual names..... why dont we know their names if true? Guess.. racism, because who the hell cared (or for some cares) about the names of some slaves who might have started this holiday back in the day... their skin colour seems more important.
Let me ask you this... a Jewish German immigrant invented the theory of relativity. I know his name, but is it not a bit insulting not to mention his name, but that some white Jewish German immigrant to the US did it? Or that some ugly tall possibly gay white Christian guy freed the slaves in the US.. get the idea?