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#gotofuckingwork (Original Post) Recursion Jan 2017 OP
What the City of Biloxi madaboutharry Jan 2017 #1
Right? Recursion Jan 2017 #2
Bingo! bravenak Jan 2017 #3
banging my head on the table. sheshe2 Jan 2017 #4
Mine too bravenak Jan 2017 #5
Is this some sneaky reference to Uponthegears Jan 2017 #10
Seriously. Still carrying the battle flag or treason. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #9
The slaveowning states Percy Cholmondeley Jan 2017 #6
Would they be doing this lillypaddle Jan 2017 #7
yes, many states resisted having a mlk day and it took some years JI7 Jan 2017 #8
The racists may start a civil war before the team of Tillerson/Trump/Putin can start theirs. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #11
Doesn't make it all okay, of course, but in response Hortensis Jan 2017 #12
Good to see they're catching up lovemydog Jan 2017 #13
I took it to suggest a fair number are unwilling Hortensis Jan 2017 #14
That's a much better way of looking at it. lovemydog Jan 2017 #15

madaboutharry

(41,385 posts)
1. What the City of Biloxi
Sun Jan 15, 2017, 11:40 PM
Jan 2017

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

(56,582 posts)
2. Right?
Sun Jan 15, 2017, 11:44 PM
Jan 2017

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.

 

Uponthegears

(1,499 posts)
10. Is this some sneaky reference to
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 11:17 AM
Jan 2017

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

(10,046 posts)
9. Seriously. Still carrying the battle flag or treason.
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 08:35 AM
Jan 2017

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

JI7

(90,844 posts)
8. yes, many states resisted having a mlk day and it took some years
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 04:12 AM
Jan 2017

for many to recognize it.

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

Eliot Rosewater

(32,537 posts)
11. The racists may start a civil war before the team of Tillerson/Trump/Putin can start theirs.
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 01:19 PM
Jan 2017

TTP, not TPP.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. Doesn't make it all okay, of course, but in response
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 07:19 AM
Jan 2017

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

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
14. I took it to suggest a fair number are unwilling
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:35 AM
Jan 2017

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.

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