It's 04 May.† Fifty-six years ago today, ill-prepared and ill-led members of the Ohio National Guard fired on a group of protesters against the Vietnam War at Kent State University, killing four (including one quite some distance from the protest), overtly wounding nine (or more) others, and horrifying uncounted others.
Unfortunately, it appears that some government agencies have learned many of the wrong lessons from both the incident and its aftermath. That the singer is himself an immigrant (and was a durned furriner at the time of Kent State) just makes the connection a little bit more disturbing.
I can only hope that wishing the current AG a nice day doesn't mean that some time soon, we won't be transferring the same dismay to another cabinet post — not even the Gehaimstaatssicherheitsbüro. I'm afraid that I'm not optimistic.
† Star Wars fandom can bugger off with its juvenile attempt to claim the date for itself… beginning only a handful of years later. It's one thing to embrace marginally-clever wordplay to publicize one's enthusiasms; it's another, entirely, to cynically discount others' pain doing so. The irony of the Leni-Riefenstahl-lite ending of the first film in contrast to Kent State's events is for another time.