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Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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7mo ago

Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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7mo ago

Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

apnews.com /article/martin-luther-king-jr-holiday-alabama-mississippi-0f535594cf50af7103ca2d953e1bc9a1

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If that's not the most racist thing I've heard in a while...
- This feels like serious doublethink
- Just wait until you hear what trump just tweeted about the jews......
  I mean, he didn't, but you were already prepared to say to yourself "Oh god, what NOW???"
  Mostly because him, and controversial shit are just on brand for him. Like I could say he reverse pardoned the central park 5. That's where you force a conviction even if the crime isn't true.
  And some people would believe me. And a reverse pardon isn't even a thing. And even if it was, he doesn't take oath until tomorrow.
  Some people could still believe me. That's just how shitty of a person he's historically been, and how often he's been shitty, that you could make up any obviously false claims, and it would still seem plausible.
  
  I like to think I’m not any more gullible than anyone else, but every time I’ve heard something horrible from the orange convict, it’s beyond preposterous and somehow even worse than I was dreading. Yes, I’m prepared to hear and believe even worse. Yes, I can no longer enjoy political comedy because reality is more ridiculous
It is crazy that the American south is still like this
- Tbf there's the South and there's Alabama and Mississippi South.
  And Louisiana, sometimes. And Georgia, obviously. Florida.
  Texas... Okay, it's the whole South.
  But at least that cancer hasn't spread to the Midwestern states!
  
  Ohio checking in.......why do we have confederate flags in northern Ohio? Hell the only thing seperating us from Canada is a god damn lake!!! How much more north can you get???
  
  And Arkansas. Been through that state and in some of those small towns, as much as they don’t want to be known that way, it’s true.
  The KKK Embraces Diversity in Harrison, Arkansas
Two dogshit states that should have been razed and had the earth salted.
- US grant let Sherman roll!
I thought Americans celebrate winners not losers.
- But he was white and hated black people. So that's kind of thrir team.
- They don’t think the Civil War is over.
  
  The South will rise again!
  -these people
- Something about projection something something
For clarification: this isn't new, from what I can tell in the article, they started the Robert E Lee holiday following the civil war, and MLK day came after.
Not that they shouldn't be absolutely clowned on for this.
Recently drove through Mississsippi and Alabama ( off I-20). Seems like they have more important thinks to worry about.
- It's cheaper to incite racism than to deliver government services
- The roads are murder there
  
  More cracks then a plumbers' convention.
It was Lee who opposed Confederate memorials. I'll bet the orange traitor is toasting the fucking Confederacy right now.
I can't wait to watch the speech.
"And along with freedom fighter, Martin Luther King, we would also like to honor the great general Lee, who fought hard to keep half of our population in servitude and went on to surrender valiantly. While he didn't win the war, he won our hearts."
Sherman left too much of the South intact
- the USA did not try those who financed the civil war as they should have
- He already does.
I guess Robert E Lee losing was helpful, but I suspect they're just racists and not honoring him for being such a loser
- He really was a loser.
If your local college has a Kappa Alpha chapter, it is basically a cult dedicated to worshipping Robert E Lee. He appeals to that “war between brothers” tragic story type of “Lost Cause” narrative, and is ridiculously popular among dominionist Christians.
I am from Virginia where we used to celebrate Lee Jackson King Day (in that order too).
Its is absolutely ridiculous, but not surprising.

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