N.C. Apple Festival director resigns under fire: Joke referencing Juneteenth holiday deemed disparaging, fallout triggers departure

Daily Planet ^ | Wednesday, 06 July 2022 13:10 | Staff

[The_Media_never_lie]

HENDERSONVILLE — The executive director of the North Carolina Apple Festival resigned June 23 over comments he made on social media about Juneteenth, according to the festival Facebook page.

The post on the festival’s Facebook page said David Nicholson, the executive director of the festival, confirmed the resignation of David Nicholson, the event’s long-time.

[Waverunner]

If he had just added, “ Who like to dress in drag”, He would have been laudy da lauded.

[deks]

He wrote, “The Post Office is closed today for some made-up holiday that I never heard of? Just when is the ‘Old Fat White Man Day’? I really want to celebrate this day.”

[I want the USA back]

It used to be that joking about a privileged minority got you canned.

Now it’s things that honor privileged minorities. Words painted on a street. A statue representing a privileged minority. That’ll get you fired now.

Surely the statue couldn’t have been offended!

Symbolism over substance as Rush used to say (thanks, Rush!)

[who knows what evil?]

...so here's a guy who does a great job running the Apple Festival for YEARS and they run him out over that..?

PUH-LEEZE. I'll let them know what I think if my wife and I attend this year...

[buckalfa]

"As a board they are Cowards"

That and given that WNC is becoming gentrified, I am also sure these local movers and shakers know which side their bread is buttered.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Seems like this is the jumpteenth time this has happened!

[rxh4n1]

‘Juneteenth should be marked as the day Republican troops under the command of a Republican president freed the last of the slaves held captive by Democrats.’

Which Republican president commanded troops on June 19, 1865?

Trick question. Andrew Johnson was a racist Democrat.

[CarolinaReaganFan]

i’m ok with Old Fat White Man Day.
we must fight back. he shouldn’t resign

[hanamizu]

Belated acknowledgement of prior months’ Emancipation Proclamation where slaves ONLY in rebelling states were declared ‘free.’

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Lincoln realized that he had no Constitutional authority to free any slaves. As commander-in-chief he felt he did have the authority to free slaves in areas in rebellion as of the 1st of January 1863 as a war measure to hamper the South’s ability to wage war.. The Emancipation specifically excluded Confederate states, counties and parishes under Union control. And it had no effect on slaves in the Union states of KY, MO, WV, MD, and DE as well as DC.

[2harddrive]

HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.