wizid: black-to-the-bones: black-to-the-bones: Arizona only adopted MLK Day when threatened with no
wizid: black-to-the-bones: black-to-the-bones: Arizona only adopted MLK Day when threatened with no Super Bowls Ok listen - I agree 100% with the removal of Confederate Monuments from public land, I also agree with you 100% about the majority of them going up having fuckall to do with the war.All of that said - the point about Arizona not being a state isn’t a valid argument here. Arizona wasn’t a state but it was a Territory and it was controlled by the Confederacy from 1861 until the Union ran the Confederate Government of the Arizona Territory into El Paso in 1862 - however Confederate soldiers who fought under the Arizona banner continued to do so for the whole war and the Confederacy never abandoned claim of ownership during the war. May not have been a state but it was Confederate Territory that was then Union occupied Confederate Territory. So the argument being made about them not being a state at the time of the Civil War undercutting their having anything to do with the Civil War is nonsensical. Again - we agree about anything on public land that memorializes a foreign nation we went to war with - and most especially those erected in the century that followed the one the war was actually in. -- source link