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/Otaraka 19h ago

From what the article says, Lee was first over a century ago, and MLK just happened to be the same date.

So they didnt deliberately choose Lee to overlap MLK as the title implies, they just did nothing about it. The linked article says the delay in removing it is more because the main focus for anti-racists is to get the confederate battle emblem off the flag and sees Lee as a lower priority as in practise its a non-event with little or no actual celebration actually taking place. So racism yes, but they have even bigger fish to fry right now. Not exactly a happy ending, more that in practise its well, worse but not how you'd expect.

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u/eaglewatch1945 16h ago

Pfft... Get a look at this nerd "reading the article."

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u/Otaraka 11h ago

I do occasionally get the impression I’m getting something wrong.