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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

Posted on 07/10/2022 7:21:58 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; ebonics; fakeholiday; grovel; hendersonville; juneteenth; northcarolina; politicallycorrect; virtuesignalerfury
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To: The_Media_never_lie

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


61 posted on 07/10/2022 11:31:48 AM PDT by Waverunner
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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.”


62 posted on 07/10/2022 11:41:30 AM PDT by deks
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To: The_Media_never_lie

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!)


63 posted on 07/10/2022 11:44:18 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To get the USA back - we have to recover from the current wave of insanity.)
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To: deks
...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...

64 posted on 07/10/2022 11:44:37 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: butlerweave
"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.

65 posted on 07/10/2022 12:23:15 PM PDT by buckalfa (An old man who plants a tree whose shade he will never see is the primary component of civilization.)
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To: who knows what evil?

Seems like this is the jumpteenth time this has happened!


66 posted on 07/10/2022 1:08:28 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Round Earther

‘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.


67 posted on 07/10/2022 2:59:28 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: The_Media_never_lie

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


68 posted on 07/10/2022 6:00:03 PM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Gaffer

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


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.


69 posted on 07/10/2022 9:12:02 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: The_Media_never_lie

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.


70 posted on 06/19/2023 4:11:24 PM PDT by 2harddrive (https://rumble.com/vdptuf-best-election-fraud-video-ever-unmasked-have-we-uncovered-the-truth-about)
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