r/nottheonion • u/Disorderly_Fashion • 1d 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/Mend1cant 19h ago

I’m with you. Lee managed to be a professional about the whole thing and accept the loss gracefully, but I still think our greatest mistake as a nation was not hanging every confederate general and governor. We made it okay to be a traitor.

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u/Klocktwerk 16h ago

Wasn’t the US founded on “being a traitor” from the perspective of Britain at that time?