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I hadn’t heard the Mississippi thing. That’s wild.
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.
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?
I’d say the insult was almost certainly the point.
I just truly can't understand why.
People resent having things forced on them, even if the thing itself is not bad. That results in backlash.
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.
In america, we should be more accepting of minorities. Especially people that we have wronged.
People have a hard time living up to their own professed ideals.
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You understand the love they have for Robert E. Lee?
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.
Do you think the Black population has anything to do with naming those streets, which were named during Jim Crow?
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?
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.
Probably not. And names of streets dont really change, do they?
They do.
and the love they have for the confederate flag.
oh I see. Some cultures are baked in tradition. I guess the south likes Lee better than King.
The white south seems to. Most Blacks live in the South, but you might not know that.
Yes, I realize that a lot of black people live in the south.
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.