Rebels Roused By 13yr Old’s Plan to Rename “Confederate Heroes’ Day”

[JoethePleb]

In 1973 the Texas Legislature decided to combine the birthdays of two Confederate war icons, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, into one holiday called “Confederate Heroes’ Day.”

This year that state holiday coincided with the federal holiday “Martin Luther King Jr. Day.” To a lot of folks, that just doesn’t sit well, including Jacob Hale, an 8th grader and constituent of Austin state representative Donna Howard.

Jacob told KVUE that, “it’s ironic that we celebrate MLK Day, where we’re supposed to be celebrating racial progress and the fight for equality, but then also we have ‘Confederate Heroes Day’ which acknowledges the men who fought for slavery as ‘heroes.’”

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/29649/rebels-roused-13yr-olds-plan-rename-confederate-heros-day

[guillaumeb]

1. Are Texans aware that they are actually part of the US?

Davis and Lee were not heroes, they were traitors to their country who engaged in armed rebellion. By the twisted logic apparently used in Texas, Cliven Bundy and other white-separatist militia idiots are also heroes.

When will these unreconstructed apologists for slavery, militia members, Tea Partiers and other crazies ever give up and join the rest of the country in the 21st Century?

[libdem4life]

2. Kids say the darndest things !

[FSogol]

3. Virginia celebrated Lee-Jackson-King Day from 1984 thru 2000.

Robert E Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr.

It was quite ridiculous

[Blue_Tires]

4. I was about to mention that...

In 1984 I was in first grade, so for a long time I thought that was "normal" for the rest of the country...

[FSogol]

5. I was out of school by '84, but remember getting Lee-Jackson Day off every

January and thinking how crappy it was to celebrate those anti-American losers.