http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/22/1359443/-Three-states-make-MLK-Day-a-joint-holiday-with-Confederate-General-Robert-E-Lee?detail=email
Every now and then, if you happen to forget the complicated history of our country, Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi will do something to snatch you back into reality.
These three states, all in the American South, have made the federal holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King a joint holiday with the confederate General Robert E. Lee and went out of their way with signage and notices on government buildings to communicate this reality. The irony in Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama being so insistent on honoring General Lee on MLK Day is that Virginia, the state where Lee was born, raised, fought, and died, abandoned this practice decades ago.
Hutchinson said Wednesday that he hadn't decided whether to support Bell's proposal.
"I haven't thought about it, so I'd have to give it some more thought," Hutchinson said. "History is important to me and we've just got to balance those, obviously."
this shows not only their disrespect for Dr. King but Lee as well if the hate and denegrate Dr. King and put him in that bag are they not by association doing the same to Lee, birds of a feather. maybe they are the stupid the party of stupid stands for. looks as though they really hadn't given it any thought past trying to slam Dr. King an another Black American treasure.
