at least for those of us who live in the great state of Mississippi </sarcasm>
Confederate Memorial Day
Yes, I'm absolutely serious. Mississippi has a state holiday called "Confederate Memorial Day"
Hey..aren't we supposed to be proving we aren't just a bunch of inbred redneck hicks? Thanks Mississippi state legislature for making Confederate Memorial Day a statewide get-off-of-work holiday! :-D
Thats crazy. The only reason I know about Confederate Memorial Day is because my mom used to work for state government and they got the day off.
and to marmar (I'm too lazy to make another reply post)...yeah really. Its a wonder Mississippi doesnt elect more democrats to congress...considering the large black (mainly democratic) population.
It was listed precisely that way on our official list of days off. Teachers down there were defacto state employees so we had many of the same days off they did.
But for the racists to be celebrating Robert E Lee is odd..because it seems the Klan (and a bunch of those "Southern Heritage" hate groups) have abandoned the more moderate Lee in favor of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a more radical Confederate general and one of the founders of the KKK ("imperial wizard"...and by the way, who the fuck comes up with those insane titles?)
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