Anybody else find celebrating "Holiday in Dixie" a tad creepy? Even the official website for HID says "The initial Holiday in Dixie was a large five day pageant staged with a cast of hundreds at the State Fair stadium. The pageant was called 'Salute to the Southland.' "The Plantation Ball (pictured above) is the most hard core, with all those white Colonel Sanders suits and black string ties. In a city where the racial makeup is 50.80% African American and 46.66% White, maybe it's time to retire HID and create a new holiday. If we want to be "The Next Great City of the South" how about we come up with something more progressive, like Austin's South by Southwest Conference and Festival? To see pictures of the Plantation Ball see pages 10-11 in the May 2010 issue of City Life (sister publication to The Forum News).
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