Ravenwood - 01/20/03 11:53 AM
As a boy growing up in Virginia, we celebrated Lee-Jackson-King Day. While I think that the imperial Federal government has told the Commonwealth of Virginia that King must have his own day from now on, I still celebrate the multi-holiday as I did back then.
That said, Happy Birthdays to Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I appreciate you keeping this holiday the way it was meant to be celebrated!!
William H.
Charlottesvill VA
I always heard that it was originally Lee-Jackson Day, then became Lee-Jackson-King Day when the Feds enacted a Federal holiday for MLK. After a couple years of that, the politically correct element in VA couldn't stand hearing King's name in connection with former Confederates, and the Va. Legis. bumped Lee and Jackson to a Friday and kept King on a Monday. That's about when I left the State.
Posted by: Shelby at January 19, 2004 8:36 PMI'm not sure the exact history of it, but I was under the impression that it was Federal pressure that made them move it. Then again, most of those laws are in fact state laws, passed under the pressure of losing federal benefits. (Like federal highway funding being used to get states to pass drinking, smoking, and speed limit laws.)
Posted by: Ravenwood at January 19, 2004 9:44 PMWhy should two confederates and Martin Luther King have ever shared a holiday? I would like to know who the geniouses were that created a holiday shared by these three individuals. MLK deserves his own and should have always been that way.
Posted by: John at January 21, 2004 11:49 AM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
