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No More Robert E. Lee Holiday in Arkansas?

Jerome

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GOP Governor Asa Hutchinson (BJU grad) backs bill to end same-day celebration of the Confederate general alongside civil rights hero Martin Luther King:

U.S. News & World Report - Best States - Arkansas News

MLK Day would finally be a stand-alone state holiday. The bill "designates the second Saturday in October as a memorial day for Lee, marked by a gubernatorial proclamation but not a state holiday that would require any offices to be closed."

"This...reflects a high regard for the importance of the civil rights movement that changed America for good," Hutchinson said.
 
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Jerome said:
GOP Governor Asa Hutchinson (BJU grad) backs bill to end same-day celebration of the Confederate general alongside civil rights hero Martin Luther King:

U.S. News & World Report - Best States - Arkansas News

MLK Day would finally be a stand-alone state holiday. The bill "designates the second Saturday in October as a memorial day for Lee, marked by a gubernatorial proclamation but not a state holiday that would require any offices to be closed."

"This...reflects a high regard for the importance of the civil rights movement that changed America for good," Hutchinson said.
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America has been changed for good?.....tell me another one. Sounds like Arkansas has a politically correct governor...well who doesn't.
 
Jerome

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It passed. Just two more states to go!

www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/arkansas_ends_dual_holiday_for.html
Arkansas' governor signed legislation Tuesday ending the state's practice of commemorating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the same holiday as slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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Alabama and Mississippi are now the only states that have joint Lee-King state holidays....A proposal is pending in the Alabama Legislature....No bills to end the dual holiday were filed in Mississippi this year.
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Brent W

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Haha of course Alabama and Mississippi are the last two states. We are consistent with that.
 
Squire Robertsson

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I'm not saying Lincoln didn't make the right decision in sparing Lee, Davis, and the others. He did. I am saying, folks need to keep matters in perspective.
Salty said:
Could be that Lincoln realized that the USA had done the same thing 4 score and seven years previously.
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Salty

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Squire Robertsson said:
I'm not saying Lincoln didn't make the right decision in sparing Lee, Davis, and the others. He did. I am saying, folks need to keep matters in perspective.
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Very true - but many in Congress ( republicans) did want to punish the South - and that IMHO - help caused racial tensions for decades in the South - Opps - off OP - maybe I will start a new thread..... (when I get home)
 
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Salty said:
Could be that Lincoln realized that the USA had done the same thing 4 score and seven years previously.
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But only Massachusetts and its stepchild, Maine, celebrate Patriot's Day (currently the nearest Monday to April 19, anniversary of Lexington/Concord.) Of course, those battles took place four score and eight years before Lincoln spoke. :)
 
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Arkansas doesn't recognize Columbus Day. We'd have to add it to get rid of it.

Lee day has been moved to October, not eliminated just no longer set to be the same day as MLK day.

Confederate Flag Day is still on the books in Arkansas. It's the Saturday before Easter Sunday. That which was dead will live again. Fortunately since no regular state offices are open on Saturday, there are no office closings for it, so it has escaped notice.
 
carpro

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Arkstfan said:
Arkansas doesn't recognize Columbus Day. We'd have to add it to get rid of it.

Lee day has been moved to October, not eliminated just no longer set to be the same day as MLK day.

Confederate Flag Day is still on the books in Arkansas. It's the Saturday before Easter Sunday. That which was dead will live again. Fortunately since no regular state offices are open on Saturday, there are no office closings for it, so it has escaped notice.
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Arkansas should have a Patrick Cleburne Day instead of Lee, anyhow. He was the best general to lead troops from Arkansas in the Civil war. IMHO And I don't believe he ever owned any slaves, even going so far as to speak out against the institution.
 
carpro

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Squire Robertsson said:
All things considered, in most other countries, the Confederate leadership would have been hung for treason and rebellion.
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Could be because their union was voluntary and there was no reason to believe they could not withdraw from it. Many people, at the time were more loyal to their states than the union.

It wasn't until 1869 that the Supreme Court got around to declaring "secession" unconstitutional. Even that decision was viewed as providing cover for oppressive reconstruction policies.
 
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carpro said:
It wasn't until 1869 that the Supreme Court got around to declaring "secession" unconstitutional. Even that decision was viewed as providing cover for oppressive reconstruction policies.
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Indeed, were they going to rule otherwise and say the Union acted unconstitutionally in forcing states to remain in it? They just disregarded the 10th Amendment because it was inconvenient.
 
Squire Robertsson

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I understand that. R. L. Dabney, in his Stonewall Jackson biography, explained the concept of soil sovereignty. As a Westerner, I disagree with the concept.
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Could be because their union was voluntary and there was no reason to believe they could not withdraw from it. Many people, at the time were more loyal to their states than the union.
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