While some of the Confederate Facebookers were plum happy to have me on board-check out this weirdly adorable picture of a bowing horse someone sent me!-others, like the guy who told me to "run off and join ISIS," were not. I was beginning to feel stupefied and distressed, and my friends were complaining that all their recommended friends now had Confederate flag avatars as well. But then you can find people freaking out at the possibility that Obama might arrest them for posting racist stuff on Facebook, or getting mad that people are calling them racist. Predictably, many Confederate Facebook posts consist of proud displays of the Confederate flag-on tattoos, in wedding photos, flanked by flaming blue skulls, airbrushed onto truck windows, whatever.
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Just keep clicking "Add Friend" over and over, and before you know it your Timeline is full of racist Minions memes and pictures of Looney Toons who are somehow mad at Al Sharpton. Facebook's friend recommendations will quickly turn into an endless, mesmerizing stream of folks with names like Prepper Jeff and Amanda Rebel. Watch the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade on Sunday, June 2 nd from 2 pm-4 pm on CW33 or catch the encore presentation on Sunday, June 2 nd from 10pm-12 am.Everyone in Confederate Facebook seems to accept friend requests from strangers, which I guess can be chalked up to Southern hospitality. History is still being made, as this year’s parade will be the first in Dallas to be broadcast live on TV, right here on CW33. In 2019, the parade and festival in Dallas were moved back to June. In 1991, the parade was named after Ross to honor the fact he had shouldered much of the responsibility for organizing the parade in the early years. It wasn’t until a 2003 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that such laws were ultimately deemed unconstitutional.Īlan Ross was one of the executive directors of the Dallas Tavern Guild, organizers of the parade in Dallas, and was a member of the board of directors of some of the leading gay and lesbian nonprofit groups during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
In celebration the parade was renamed the Texas Freedom Parade and moved to September, the month of the ruling.īuchmeyer’s decision was ultimately overturned by a higher court. Buchmeyer ruled the Texas sodomy law unconstitutional, which essentially made it a crime to be gay. June marks LGBTQ pride month, and many cities will be hosting their annual variations of pride parades and celebrations.įor the past 36 years Dallas has also hosted a parade and celebration, albeit it’s own unique version.įor one, the parade itself is called the Alan Ross Freedom Parade and, until this year, was usually held in September (it’s in June this year).įor starters, organizers in Dallas historically held the parade in September (although it did start out in June) to commemorate a significant moment in the fight for LGBTQ equality in Texas. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.