Today, according to Google, is Robert E. Lee Day. As proven in the screen shot above, Google’s desktop version is reporting the holiday not as honoring Martin Luther King Jr, but Robert E. Lee.
Mobile tests are said to be showing the holiday as Martin Luther King Jr Day. So perhaps Google is simply trying to have it both ways.
***snicker***
According to Google it's Robert E. Lee Day
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Pretty sure it’s an Alabama thing. From Kansas…
https://menofthewest.net/wp-content/uploads/academy_ks.png
Pretty sure it’s a Photoshop thing, actually.
@ Malcolm – nope.
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2017/01/google_apologizes_for_citing_r.html
and
http://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-maps-martin-luther-king-jr-day-robert-e-lee-birthday/
I can verify that it’s not Photoshop or altered in any way.
absolutely NOT photoshop
This Copperhead smirks in approval.
If that don’t bring a smile to your face, nothing will.
I am jealous. As a Copperhead in a red county on the West Coast, He would have been preferable. It was probably a regional thing.