Lee-Jackson day I love you!
by Ross Catrow
We all know that I love Lee-Jackson day. It is a holiday uniquely Virginian and maybe my second favorite holiday (next to Thanksgiving, duh). Obviously that makes me a raving racist right? RIGHT?
Anyway. For today’s Lee-Jackson day celebration the Sons of Confederate Veterans had a small gathering at Lee Circle with some speechifying and general Robert E. Lee fanboyism. There were a couple of re-enactors, a Robert E. Lee look-a-like, and kids decked out in the Battle Flag of the Confederacy (creepy).
Also joining the celebration was a group of protestors presumably from the Virginia Anti-War Network (watch out, the site’s hosted on tripod.com). Because, you know, Lee was known for his love of war and going to war and such. This woman also decided to come out:
Sooooo true. You know who else was a racist? GEORGE WASHINGTON. He is practically the father of all racists — literally. Like he spawned all future racists from his evil loins. Honestly, I read it on the internet once.
Hey I think there used to be comments here, but they went away.
Not because of anything terrible or racist said in the comments, but, and I’ll be honest here, I thought it would be a good idea to moderate comments after I had like four beers. This was not a good idea.
So I apologize if your comment is missing.
i was going to say something about that mystery, then i thought about how unimportant my comment was and decided to just let it go.
nice work mr. drunk pants.
Haha yeah, I apologize. I don’t know what I was thinking.
My favorite thing to do while drunk is moderate blog posts!