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Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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

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Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in two states, Monday is also Robert E.

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When I lived in Virginia we had Lee-Jackson-King Day:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee–Jackson–King_Day

That was 25 years ago, and I had hoped that such blatant racism was gone for good. 😔

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