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On May 10, South Carolina commemorated Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday. Gov. James Hodges, a Democrat, approved the holiday last year as a compromise to mollify the state’s disproportionately high number of reactionary legislators who fought passage of a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr.
A state senator there says he believes that celebrating King’s memory is no more–and probably less–significant than celebrating the Confederacy.
He couldn’t be more wrong.
There is a distinct difference between celebrating racial equality and celebrating racism.
