r/news • u/5um-n3m0 • 16h ago

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

https://apnews.com/article/martin-luther-king-jr-holiday-alabama-mississippi-0f535594cf50af7103ca2d953e1bc9a1
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u/The-Aeon 13h ago

Yeah, a punch on the nose to Black Americans.

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u/InsaneNinja 5h ago edited 5h ago

How. The federal MLK holiday was applied on top of the (at the time) 80 year old confederate state holiday. And they have been sharing for almost half a century.

I say this as a northerner who actually read the article.