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I thought so too, but then reading the article actually made it a bit less racist than initial thoughts. They had been celebrating Lee in January a good 70 years before MLKJ got his day in January. Still racist, but I can see politicians being like "fuck it. We're not having two holidays a week apart from each other".
Also, wouldn't it be just as upsetting to racists in support of Lee as it is to non racists in support of MLKJ?
Funny, I'd have thought that celebrating a failed insurrectionist leader who fought for slavery is racist, regardless of how long they'd been doing it.
Well sure it's racist, but it'd be more racist if they created the day and put it there solely out of spite.
But if you're going to get rid of the two holidays and only have one and celebrate it on MLK day, why not just call it MLK day instead of insisting on still celebrating Lee? Hell, it's almost worse the more I think about it. If they had some random holiday that celebrated Lee and kept it around mostly just to get a day off you might have a point.
Are we caring what upsets racists?
Also, that doesn't make it better.