First off, let's start with the kudos. Last week, the Florida legislature apologized for slavery, being the sixth state in the Union to do so, and the fifth from the Fifth Columnist traitor states in the South.
The state's Senate is also looking to possibly replace their racist state song.
So yeah, yay for Florida.
However, as this audio interview with the author of this editorial states, words may not be enough. Talk is cheap, and the South is still the racist South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Society, the Republican Revolution, and the KKK prove the ups and downs of freedom for ALL our citizens down there.
The GOP is running a guy who was against recognizing the efforts of Dr. King, until, you know, he thought it could earn him votes. He was booed last week in Memphis, both for being a closet racist AND for making a black man hold an umbrella over his head at a memorial for MLK. Classy.
What I am also reminded of the fairly recent story I read about how a Florida legislator wants to make a Confederate Heritage license plate.
At the time, blogger Princess Sparkle Pony (yeah, I know, be warned when you click on this link for an assault of pink-ness) gave some examples of other Confederate Heritage plates they could make. Unfortunately, though satirical, you know some redneck would buy them.
Here's one now:
(sigh) We have SO far left to go in this country.
