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34 sats \ 44 replies \ @Satosora 20 Jun \ parent \ on: The Problem with Juneteenth econ
Why did they hold out so long?
Federal holidays all the states have to accept, right?
Is juneteenth not a national holiday?
Mississippi celebrates Robert E. Lee Day on MLK Day. Does that answer your question?
Some holidays are Federal and Bank holidays. Some are not. States get to decide.
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I hadn’t heard the Mississippi thing. That’s wild.
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I was living there when MLK Day became a holiday. The first year all the newspapers had Robert E. Lee and Confederate flags on the front page. Today Mississippi and Alabama keep it going refusing to honor King.
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I understand the love they have of an important historical figure, but it seems so insulting to pit him against MLK. Like, why not both? Why create a fight like that?
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You understand the love they have for Robert E. Lee?
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There's roads named after the guy in New Orleans, and that city is like 70% black. Obviously people love the guy. I don't know anything about him, but I understand that he's an important historical figure.
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Do you think the Black population has anything to do with naming those streets, which were named during Jim Crow?
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Do you think the majority Black population in New Orleans (politicians, police, government officials of varying importance) lack the ability to make such a simple change?
I’d say the insult was almost certainly the point.
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I just truly can't understand why.
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People resent having things forced on them, even if the thing itself is not bad. That results in backlash.
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In America, every advancement of freedom and rights for Black people has resulted in backlash. I guess because it has had to be forced on the majority through the laws they wrote. They shouldn't have wrote all that freedom and liberty stuff if they didn't mean it.
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