Re: Happy Lee-Jackson day
Posted by:
state. employee
()
Date: January 14, 2022 03:32PM
Corrupting history Wrote:
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> Robert E. Lee was born on January 19. Thomas J.
> Jackson was born on January 21. For much of the
> time when the holiday mattered it was, correctly,
> celebrated on January 19. A Friday Lee-Jackson
> day is as much a bastardization as having George
> Washington's birthday celebrated on a Monday.
Fuck history. The state took LJ day away from us and gave us election day instead. Election day is on a fucking Tuesday so you pretty much have to take the Monday before off so you can get a 4 day weekend.