Hi, this Alonzo Bowden, and welcome to episode 167 of my podcast.

Who's paying attention?

This is real America.

This is real and it's really happening.

This Friday, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president.

That's reality.

Now, today is Martin Luther King Day or, no, I'm not even going to say or.

Today is Martin Luther King Day and so ironic that Monday is Martin Luther King Day and Friday is a day Donald Trump will be inaugurated.

But that's how it works.

Now, here's the thing about today. Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas,

don't call it Martin Luther King Day. You know what they call it? They call it Great Americans

Day. The city of Biloxi, Mississippi posted a tweet, non-emergency municipal offices in Biloxi

will be closed on Monday in observance of Great Americans Day. Do you know why they call it

Great Americans Day? Because they, they, because Robert E. Lee, they're celebrating Robert Lee's birthday.

I was going to say their racism is so strong or their hate is.

I don't even know what's in their minds, but they equate Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee.

They think that's the same.

They think that's equal.

So Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas don't celebrate Martin Luther King Day.

They celebrate, quote, Great Americans Day because they think that they're the same.

They think they're equal.

The Confederate general who fought for slavery and the great man, the Nobel Prize winning,

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