WTF!!!!
Hold on to the War Between the States as long as y'all ignorqnt, cousin marryin' fools want to ; the rest of us in real word know it ended long ago.
The War did, but racism lives on even today.
[In Arkansas, Gen. Lee gets his day, too
12:00 AM CST on Sunday, January 20, 2008
From Wire Reports
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas state employees will have Monday off, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. – and General Robert E. Lee, commanding officer of the Confederate Army.
DANNY JOHNSTON/The Associated Press
Arkansas Capitol doors indicate that offices will be closed Monday for both leaders' birthdays. Every year, the doors of the state Capitol bear notices that offices will be closed the third Monday of January to honor Dr. King and Gen. Lee. Arkansas is one of three states to commemorate both men with a state holiday. The others are Alabama and Mississippi.
"I know my students that come to the university seem to come with a bit of nostalgia for the Old South ... particularly Robert E. Lee, who has the mystique of being the man who only reluctantly seceded," said University of Arkansas history professor Jeannie M. Whayne. "He's become, well, one book's title says it all, The Marble Man, the ideal of the Southerner..."
...Commemorating Gen. Lee's birth dates to 1943, when Arkansas legislators declared it one of several "memorial days" the governor would commemorate by a proclamation. It became a legal holiday in 1947.
In 1983, lawmakers voted to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as an official state holiday but required state employees to choose two out of three holidays – Dr. King's birthday on Jan. 15, Gen. Lee's birthday on Jan. 19 or the employee's birthday. In 1985, they voted to combine Dr. King's and Gen. Lee's holidays. Employees got to keep their birthdays as a holiday.]
(emphasis added, just got to love old south nostalgia when blacks had no rights and only counted under Constitution as 3/5 of a person for representation in US House.)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-arleevsking_20tex.ART.State.Edition1.373d55c.html
hat tip Field Negro
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