Mississippi city tweets about ‘Great Americans Day’ and everyone’s upset [Deleted!]

by SooperMexican

The public relations for the City of Biloxi started up the shenanigans with this tweet where they celebrate “Great Americans Day” in place of Martin Luther King Day:

In a post from a later tweet, they point to the source of the shenanigans:

Offices closed: Non-emergency municipal offices in Biloxi will be closed on Monday in observance of Great Americans Day. To see the state’s declaration on the holiday, and how the name originated, click here.

Robert E. Lee??! C’mon people!! I bet these are the same guys whining that Democrats won’t accept the results of the election, but they still contest the result of the Civil War.

And that opened up the floodgates:

https://twitter.com/THEKIDMERO/status/820062663161978880

But the Mayor of Biloxi didn’t want to deal with it:

I call shenanigans.

UPDATE!!!

The Biloxi account has deleted the tweet, as you can see above. Here’s a screenshot of the original:

And they released a statement about the furor:

Biloxi Mayor Andrew “FoFo” Gilich, responding to a flurry of comments about a city tweet today referring to Monday as “Great Americans Day,” believes the Biloxi City Council on Tuesday should take steps to update the city’s Code of Ordinances to reflect the official federal name of the holiday, “Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” commonly known as “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.”

“In my opinion,” Gilich said, “that is the appropriate step to take, for the holiday to have the same name as the federal holiday.”

Added the mayor: “This city’s longstanding support of our annual MLK celebrations speaks volumes about our support for this holiday. In fact, we’ve always celebrated this day as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.”
The issue arose this afternoon when the city tweeted a one-line sentence that said non-emergency city offices would be closed on Monday “in observance of Great Americans Day.” The name has since been traced back to a City Council on Dec. 23, 1985 to proclaim the third Monday of every January “to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as well as other great Americans who have made important contributions to the birth, growth and evolution of this country.”

FoFo is clearly a RINO Northern-sympathizing tyrant, probably a Lincoln-lover too.


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