#gotofuckingwork

[Recursion]

#gotofuckingwork.

Honestly I doubt Rev. Dr. King. would have wanted a "day off" in his name anyways.

[madaboutharry]

1. What the City of Biloxi

would really have liked to call it is:

"We Are Sad We Lost The Civil War And Can't Have Slaves Day"

Face it, some people are never going to change.

[Recursion]

2. Right?

Guess what "Great Americans" had birthdays near this date?

Robert E. Lee, Jan 19.

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Jan 21.

Virginia made it more explicit. It was "Lee Jackson King" day until about 2007 IIRC.

[bravenak]

3. Bingo!

[sheshe2]

4. banging my head on the table.

it hurts.

[bravenak]

5. Mine too

[Uponthegears]

10. Is this some sneaky reference to

All the old white folks with their hand welded to a slot machine handle and a red ball cap on their heads?

If so . . .



PERFECT

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

9. Seriously. Still carrying the battle flag or treason.

And this is the kind of crap somebody needs to lose their job over.

[Percy Cholmondeley]

6. The slaveowning states

Still assholes.

[lillypaddle]

7. Would they be doing this

had trump not "won" the election?

[JI7]

8. yes, many states resisted having a mlk day and it took some years

for many to recognize it.

even with the conservative Ronald Reagan having signed it into law.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. The racists may start a civil war before the team of Tillerson/Trump/Putin can start theirs.

TTP, not TPP.

[Hortensis]

12. Doesn't make it all okay, of course, but in response

to the response, Biloxi has newly voted to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, not "Great Americans."

[lovemydog]

13. Good to see they're catching up

to the 80's.

[Hortensis]

14. I took it to suggest a fair number are unwilling

to regress to the '80s, Lovemydog. I looked, and only @20% of Biloxi itself are black, compared to 37% (!) for MS. But they, and others who care about who and what we are, are refusing to be dragged down and making themselves felt.

[lovemydog]

15. That's a much better way of looking at it.

Thank you Hortensis.