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.
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So what's next? Is Trump going to celebrate Hitler on Veteran's Day?
He already does.
Sherman left too much of the South intact
the USA did not try those who financed the civil war as they should have
The Radical Republicans tried to put Sherman in charge of Reconstruction. Too bad that didn't happen.
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 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.
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."
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???
It's the same across all the Midwest - Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas... I don't even think the Dakotas were states during the Civil War, but there's the loser-traitor flag all over across the upper Midwest.
I went to Ohio to visit family as a teen in the 90s and it was normal. I went again as an adult and suddenly everyone I wasn't related to had a southern accent and was very....banjo duel....
WTF happened to you Ohio?!
Heroin.
How much more north can you get???
I seem to recall that you guys and Michigan had a "war" over that exact question......
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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.
Except of course for parts of Michigan. Missouri. Ohio. Iowa. Rural Illinois and Minnesota...
Fuck, how's the northeast doing?
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Should have Year Zero'd them in 1865. Hang every plantation owner and Confederate officer, shut down every bank that funded slave purchases, break up the plantations and distribute the land to the freed slaves. May Andrew Johnson burn in hell.
Appeasement was a huge mistake. These dipshits all running around my town like LARPers with their damn confederate flags and shit.
The Nintendo switch has been out longer than the confederacy lasted
There's so many things, but I think the best one has always been Obama being President much longer than the Confederacy.
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I thought Americans celebrate winners not losers.
The south lost the war but won the peace through protracted terrorism.
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
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.
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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.
When I lived in Virginia we had Lee-Jackson-King Day:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Jackson%E2%80%93King_Day
That was 25 years ago, and I had hoped that such blatant racism was gone for good. 😔
Two dogshit states that should have been razed and had the earth salted.
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Oddly enough, years ago I had an eye doctor named Robert E. Lee, and he was a black guy. Seemed like a really nice fella.
There are two states celebrating that eye doctor this Monday, he must have been super nice.
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It was Lee who opposed Confederate memorials. I'll bet the orange traitor is toasting the fucking Confederacy right now.
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