Danielle Combs Day!

As you may have recently heard, an actress named Hayden Panettiere received a proclamation that September 16, 2011 was to be deemed Hayden Panettiere Day. I think that honoring celebrities with days is highly controversial and is highly unfair. I know someone might say that naming days after celebrities is to bring fame to the star and to connect government with favorable figures such as Ms. Hayden Panettiere. I would disagree with this statement simply because it is obviously favorable to a certain group of people. The government is supposed to “one nation, under god, indivisible.” However, by the evident preference of the Hollywood starlets and the wealthy CEOs over the common people of America, their statements of unity are being highly contradicted. Hayden’s proclamation for Hayden Panettiere Day states that some of her reasons for receiving such a prestigious honor are due to the fact that she is an activist. Well, who says so? I’ve never actually heard of Hayden Panettiere being in the news for her so called activism, but of course that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened, it just means that it hasn’t had much publicity. Let’s take one of my best friends, for example. She tries to be an activist for everything she can. Whether it be from saving the whales, saving the trees, or reducing animal cruelty, she would save anything and everything she can. She’s probably had just as much as her publicity for her activism as Hayden Panettiere has. Why can’t there be a day named after her?