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Arkansas has celebrated Lee's memory since 1947 and King's memory since 1983, when President Ronald Reagan signed a law enacting a federal holiday for the reverend. Their respective holidays were combined in 1985 under Bill Clinton, who was then governor of the state.
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originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: Deny Arrogance
If this is true the backlash could be epic.
I'm off to the shop to get beer and popcorn.
By the alt-lefts own standards
Bill Clinton is a Nazi
originally posted by: MonkeyFishFrog
/facepalm
'Cause people don't change, even after 30 years.
Nice try.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: Irishhaf
The KKK was founded by a bunch of confederate veterans after the war ....
Also, ever heard of a little thing called Jim Crow laws? Yeah, not too many in the South spoke up against those - veterans or otherwise.
Yet rampant segregation in cities across the country rendered racial inequality a national trait more than a southern aberration. When black migrants streamed north during and after World War Two, James Baldwin reflected, “they do not escape Jim Crow: they merely encounter another, not-less-deadly variety.” They moved not to New York, but to Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant; not to Chicago, but to the South Side; not to Boston, but to Lower Roxbury.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: Irishhaf
The KKK was founded by a bunch of confederate veterans after the war ....
Also, ever heard of a little thing called Jim Crow laws? Yeah, not too many in the South spoke up against those - veterans or otherwise.