The Library of Congress late Monday said it regretted tweeting about Confederate Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“We published a post earlier today that was pre-programmed from our Today in History site about Stonewall Jackson because Jan. 21 was his date of birth,” the Library tweeted. Earlier, it had published a link to an article about Jackson on its account.
“We sincerely regret publishing this tweet on the day that we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
We published a post earlier today that was pre-programmed from our Today in History site about Stonewall Jackson because Jan. 21 was his date of birth. We sincerely regret publishing this tweet on the day that we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
— Library of Congress (@librarycongress) January 22, 2019
H/t NBC News.
Not using twitter means having no regrets.
Of course if this was generated automatically and you pulled the plug that would mean you’d have to do the unthinkable and actually f’ing THINK!
so unfair.
Ummm…is this the first time that the Library noticed this coincidence?? Seems weird…
I don’t know the current status but twenty years ago in Virginia yesterday would have been LJK Day - Lee, Jackson and King Day.
This reminds me, I saw a suggestion recently that made so much sense.
Instead of celebrating MLK’s birthday, make his holiday the same as election day. Giving more people the day off so that they can more easily cast a ballot, or work a polling station, seems so fitting with his civil rights legacy.
I’m willing to give the Library of Congress the benefit of the doubt on this one. First, because they are career civil servants and scholars. Second, because since it is a library, we know no one in the Trump administration, much less Donnie himself, cares about its existence.