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54 sats \ 43 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Jun \ parent \ on: The Problem with Juneteenth econ

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.

31 sats \ 39 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Jun

I hadn’t heard the Mississippi thing. That’s wild.

42 sats \ 38 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Jun

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.

55 sats \ 37 replies \ @Undergotten 20 Jun

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?

20 sats \ 27 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Jun

You understand the love they have for Robert E. Lee?

13 sats \ 25 replies \ @Undergotten 20 Jun

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.

20 sats \ 24 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Jun

Do you think the Black population has anything to do with naming those streets, which were named during Jim Crow?

14 sats \ 13 replies \ @Undergotten 21 Jun

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?

20 sats \ 12 replies \ @TNStacker 21 Jun

Stop being so disrespectful - answering questions with questions that try to make a point, but really only displays the fact that you've read nothing and know very little about Louisiana (or southern) politics. You answer my question first.

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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Satosora 21 Jun

Probably not. And names of streets dont really change, do they?

41 sats \ 8 replies \ @TNStacker 21 Jun

They do.

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 20 Jun

and the love they have for the confederate flag.

100 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Jun

I’d say the insult was almost certainly the point.

55 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undergotten 20 Jun

I just truly can't understand why.

31 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Jun

People resent having things forced on them, even if the thing itself is not bad. That results in backlash.

73 sats \ 4 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Jun

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.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 21 Jun

People have a hard time living up to their own professed ideals.

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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 21 Jun

In america, we should be more accepting of minorities. Especially people that we have wronged.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Jun

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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 20 Jun

oh I see. Some cultures are baked in tradition. I guess the south likes Lee better than King.

22 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 20 Jun freebie

The white south seems to. Most Blacks live in the South, but you might not know that.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 20 Jun

Yes, I realize that a lot of black people live in the south.