Please Don't Name Every Army Base After a Black Person. Maryland, Alabama, Trump and Republicans

DECEMBER 30, 2020

**  Maryland may  repeal state song, a Confederate call to arms.  (Bad, bad, Maryland.)

**  Letter:  Local pastor says Confederate monument, flag at county courthouse. (Albertville, Alabama.  The pastor is a white man.)

**  President Donald Trump fumes at Republican leadership, revives slur against  Elizabeth Warren.

**  25 House Republicans abandon support for troops to protect Confederate monuments.  (66 House Republicans voted against overriding Trump's veto and 25 of them had previously supported the bill.)

**  Myron B. Pitts:    Fort Bragg name to become a thing of the past -- good.  (Suggests other names.  Some are actually white people.  I don't mind changing the fort names. just please don't name every single one after a black person.  After all, whites have had something to do with the U.S. Army over the years, believe it or not.)

**  SC Heritage Act lawsuit protecting  Confederate monuments sparks top Republican fight.

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Wish If You Must. A Poet, House and 'Sylva Sam'

 DECEMBER 29, 2020

**  Wish.com removes most Confederate merchandise, citing policy against hate, but still sells items, but it still sells items glorifying dictators.  (Yep.)

**  A poet reflects on how we reckon -- or how we fail to reckon -- with the legacy of slavery.

**  House overwhelmingly  votes to override Trump's veto of the defense bill that he refused to sign because it renames Confederate bases.  (Big surprise that a bunch of Democrats would do something like that.)

**  Plywood covers part of  statue as 'Sylva Sam' awaits modifications.  (Jackson County, N.C.  The statue will remain.  But the Confederate flag on the base and some words will be removed.  I'm okay with compromise.  Of course with BLM, there can be no compromise.)

**  Statues do not teach history.

--Old Secesh

What Can the Battle of Gettysburg Teach Us about the COVID-19 Fight?

DECEMBER 28, 2020

**  Of all things:  Getting rid of Confederate names.

**  Confederates among us.  (Washington Post.  This can't be good.)

**  What can the Battle of Gettysburg teach us about  the COVID-19 fight. (So, who was the evil at this battle?  Actually, this was more of a medical account.)

**  Racial justice protests draw attention, ire of Statesville.  (Over Confederate monument which has had two different hate crimes committed on it over the summer.  At least no rioting or violence.)

**  Utah institutions move away from 'Dixie' name, but locals split.  (A local hospital to change name as well.)

**  House votes to override Trump veto.

**  Confederate monuments:  Should they stay or should they go.  (Hey, that's a play on the words of an old Clash song.)

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: Making the Year End Reviews. Body Bags and Being 'Woke'

DECEMBER 26, 2020

**  Fake body bags lined up outside Alabama court house in protest over  SCOTUS justice.  (Marshall County, Alabama.   County named after John Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) who was a slave owner.  Reckon the county name will have to be changed now.)

**  New York state bans sale of Confederate flags.

**  The Woke see no evil -- and nothing but evil.  (I don't know about the suddenly "Woke" people.)

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

All this Confederate stuff has sure been making the year end reviews a lot.

**  Culpepper's 2020 top news stories:  COVID, solar, BLM and Confederate.

**  Looking Back: 2020 a tumultuous year.

**  Of all things:  Getting rid of Confederate statues.

**  Renaming Fort Benning and the role of memorial statues in America.

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Louisiana, Arlington House, Fort Bragg, Activists, Trump's Mentality and Texas

DECEMBER 25, 2020

**  White supremacist's statue off Louisiana high court steps.  (Edward  White.  Also a member of U.S. Supreme Court.  His crimes:  Fought for the Confederacy and upheld racial segregation laws.)

**  Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee memorial, must be renamed. (Washington Post.  Big surprise they'd say that.    Excuse me, but wasn't the reason for Arlington National Cemetery being there a slap in the face to Lee in the first place?  Does this mean the name of the cemetery must also be changed?)

**  Top stories of 2020:    Push to rename Fort Bragg, installations named after Confederate generals.  (Fayetteville, North Carolina)

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

**  Activists don't want Confederate monuments, larger issues to be swept under the rug in 2021.  (But, why weren't the activists out there activating against Confederate monuments before Floyd?  Did they know those statues were there and had been for over 100 years?  Inquiring minds want to know.)

**  The Confederate Mental States of Trump.

**  A historic pandemic, Confederate statue, Floyd protests among top stories for 2020.  (Denton. Texas.  Confederate statue removed from court house.  When are they going to quit calling what happened in the wake of George Floyd's death protests or civil unrest.  They were RIOTS, LOOTING, BURNING and HATE CRIMES.)

Come On.  Those "Protests" Were Riots.  --Old Secesh

Monuments and Slave Body Bags. Wilmington, N.C. and Those Not Invited

DECEMBER 25, 2020  CHRISTMAS DAY

You'd kind of think "They" might take a day off today.  But, NO!!!!

**  Confederate monuments at Park Service get a reprieve.  ("Those" people want all Confederate statues and markers at National Battlefields taken down.  Then, who were the "good guys" fighting?)

**  'Body Bags' of slaves latest weapon in Confederate flag fight.  (Marshall County, Alabama.  They represent slaves owned by John Marshall, the county's namesake.  Gets me to wondering.  How much work can you get out of a dead slave?  Probably not too much.  Why would Marshall kill his slaves.  Inquiring minds want to know.)

John Marshall was the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice and owned 200 slaves during his lifetime.  Must have been a really bad man.

**  Top stories of 2020, No. 7:  Confederate statues removed, park renamed.  (Wilmington, North Carolina)

**  Tullahoma alderman won't apologize for  family Christmas party photo with Confederate flag.  (Tullahoma, Tennessee.  Those who are upset obviously weren't invited to the party.)

--Old Secesh

Trump Vetoes Defense Bill. Big Surprise There. 'Roll Tide' and 'Gator Bait', A Big Surprise from Virginia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

**  From 'Roll Tide' to 'Gator Bait', college football reckons with problematic traditions.  (These are Confederate or Antebellum-related.  Very interesting article.  I will write about it soon in my Saw the Elephant: Civil War blog.

**  Show of force on US streets and crisis at Fort Hood tested army secretary this year.  Also renaming Confederate bases.

**  Trump vetoes colossal $740 billion defense bill, breaking with Republican-led Senate.  (He did as he said he would do, evidently.  Again, I am in favor of renaming the bases, but, please not all black people.  Regardless of how good a man the Confederate officers were, the fact is that they still chose to fight their country.)

**  Fort Benning is named for a slave-owning secessionist.  That could soon change.  (Georgia)

**  Warner:  'I look forward' to overriding Trump's veto of defense partly over Confederate issue.  (Senator Mark Warner of Virginia.  From Virginia?  Surprise.  He's a Democrat?  Another surprise.)

**  With hate crimes on the rise, GOP senators go all-in for racist statues.  (Yep.  Lots of hate crimes being committed against Confederate statues and symbols these days.)

--Old Secesh

Taking a Long Look at the Alabama State Coat of Arms

I was looking at the Alabama State Coat of Arms in the picture section to the right of this and have come to the conclusion that other things need to be taken off it because they might offend some people.

Right now, there is a movement among black legislators in that state, and of course BLM, to remove the Confederate flag because it offends them.

In that case, they also need to remove the Spanish flag because the things they did to the Indians in the new world were too numerous to even get into.  France and British were also bad to the Indians.  Plus, all three countries have done bad things in their history.

Plus, eagles have been known to swoop down and grab fish and other small animals, even other birds.  Well, we can't have them either.

Then, there's that ship at the top of it with cannons.  Ships with cannons kill people on other ships and land.

Then, there is that state motto "Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere" which means "We dare to defend our rights."  Oops, they dared to defend their right to own slaves according to BLM.

So, all that has to go.

See what the NEW Alabama coat of arms will look like below.

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That's Right.  Nothing.  --Old Secesh

Will Virginia's George Washington Statue in the U.S. Capitol Come Down Next? A Legislator With Backbone, Imagine That?

DECEMBER 23, 2020

**  Virginia removes Confederate statue from US Capitol.  (Robert E. Lee, of course.  He will be replaced by a black woman.  That leaves a statue of George Washington who I'm sure the state will want removed because he owned you-know-what.  He will have to be replaced by another black person, of course.  Well, at least BLM wasn't able to get to it and commit their hate crimes on it like they did with the Sad R. statue.) 

I actually am in favor of removing all Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol because they did fight against the United States. Just, try to replace at least a few of them with someone who isn't a black person.

**  Arizona  state senator-elect Wendy Rogers praises Robert E. Lee.  (She said he was a great leader and patriot.  Anybody who thinks Lee was not a great leader, well, they also think George Floyd was a paragon of virtue and a wonderful person.  Finally, another legislator with some backbone who doesn't now down to BLM.)

**  Confederate statues still standing  in U.S. Capitol.  (There are ten of them.  This was by the Newsy site.  I'm surprised those great list makers at SPLC didn't make this one.)

--Old Secesh

It's the Time of the Season

Merry Christmas!

Will the Last Confederate Out of Sad R. Please Turn Out the Lights. Hey, BLM, Either Put Up or Shut Up in Palatka.

DECEMBER 22, 2020

**  Walker County commissioners  vote to keep Confederate monument at courthouse.  (Huntsville, Texas.   Wow, we won one, but for how long?  BLM's not going to like this and will demand to have final say.)

**  Parrott:  Keep John Mosby's name on Route 50 in Loudoun.  (Virginia)

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

**  Rally planned over Putnam County Confederate statue removal.  (Florida.  Demanding it be relocated.  Commission has already voted 4-1 to remove it.  Impatient little cusses, ain't they?)

**  VA (Veterans Administration) has no plans to rename hospital that honors Confederate.  (Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond.  Will the last Confederate out of Sad R. please turn out the lights.  We can't get all things Confederate out of that town fast enough.  And, please take down the disgrace that you have allowed to take place at the Lee Statue.)

**  Decision to remove NCFL (North Central Florida) Confederate monument frustrates both sides.  (Palatka, Putnam County.  It has already been decided that the statue will be removed, but the stipulation that BLMers don't like is that those who want it removed must come up with $200,000 privately raised funds to do so.  Hey, you want it removed, YOU PAY FOR IT.  Cut and simple.  

Like the one lady said, "Either ante up or shut up."   Agreed.

--Old Secesh

Why Must Every Confederate Statue Removed Be Replaced by a Black Statue? Is This the New Law of the Land? Memphis, Texas

DECEMBER 22, 2020

**  Statue of Confederate leader removed from US Capitol.  (Virginia's Robert E. Lee statue.  Will be replaced by a black woman named Barbara Johns.  She is deserving of recognition.  But. why must all Confederate statues be replaced by black statues?  Is that the new law?    And guess what speaker of the house applauded this?

Hopefully Virginians will notice this is a move from their Democratic governor and all his Democratic legislators and will remember this when elections come up next year.)

**  Three years after Confederate statues removed, activists say the work isn't over.  (That was one real slick move Memphis pulled off to get rid of those statues and park names.  They should write a book on how to skirt the law and get away with it.  Again, I have to wonder how you get to be an activists.  Are you awakened one night by your fairy godmother who twangs you on the head with her magic wand and "Bingo, you're an activist?")

**  Protesters call Gainesville 'Most racist small town in Confederate States of America.'  (Texas.  I see they have "decorated" the statue there with their hate messages.  Isn't that illegal to destroy or deface public property.  Oh yes, they are BLM so that doesn't matter.)

--Old Secesh

The False Cause, St. Augustine, Indian Wars, Lee Removed from Capitol

DECEMBER 21, 2020

**  Review:  New book seeks to differentiate between Confederate history and historic memory.   (With a book titles "The False Cause:  Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory" you can kind of guess whose side Adam N. Domby is on.  Required reading for NAACP, BLM and SPLC.)

**  Letters:  Confederate memorial should have stayed put.  (St. Augustine, Fla., removed Gem Loring statue in the pre-dawn hours.  Why is it that so many Confederate statues come down during the night time?  Isn't that when the bad guys operate?)

**  Resolution to remove 'Indian War' cannon on Decatur City Commission agenda.  (Decatur, Georgia.  In June they removed the Confederate obelisk.  The removal of Indians  following the Creek Indian War of 1836.  It was placed by the UDC.)

**  Confederate  Gen. Robert E. Lee statue removed from U.S. Capitol.  (Taken shortly after 4 am.  Again, a night-time removal of a Confederate statue.  Night-time is the right time for criminals and other deluded people.  This at orders of the Va. governor, quite a piece of work.)

--Old Secesh

Does BLM Know No Boundaries? The Great Christmas Ornament Controversy. And, Now Lincoln to get Purged?

DECEMBER 20, 2020

**  Cuomo salutes Confederate flag censors.  (New York governor)

**  New New York law bans  sale of Confederate flags on state property.  (I'm sure they sold a whole lot of Confederate flags on state property before this law.)

**  Vote set on Confederate monument.  (Walker County, Texas.  Since the vote will be by politicians, we know how this vote will go.  They're all afraid to stand up to BLM probably for fear of rioting.

**  Confederate Christmas ornaments  are smaller than statues -- but they send the same racist message.  (So, we've come to this.  Does BLM know no boundaries?   BLM should leave "them" ornaments alone and stick to what they know:  rioting, looting, burning and committing hate crimes.)

**  Changing the name of Dixie State University supported by the board.  (Utah.  In 2009, the school's nickname changed from Rebels to Red Storm.)

**  Patrick J. Buchanan:  After Lee, it's Lincoln's turn.  (A school district in San Francisco wants the name of Lincoln Highway changed for crimes against Indians.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Muslims, Alabama, Louisiana, SPLC, Virginia, Museum and Monumentless Avenue

DECEMBER 19, 2020

**  Nation's largest Muslim advocacy group supports removal of Confederate  memorial from Marshall County Courthouse.  (Albertville, Alabama.  Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).  How about supporting an end to terrorist operations, ISIS and other terrorist groups?  You'd kind of think Muslims had enough of their own problems where they wouldn't get involved with stuff in our county.)

**  Educate and advocate:  Activists in Lafayette, La.,  lead movement to remove Confederate statue, confront long history of white supremacy.  (SPLC.  Hey Guys, still waiting for you list of BLM riots, arson, looting and hate crimes.  Let's get to it!!)

**  Virginia museum will lead efforts to reimagine Richmond Avenue once  lined with Confederate monuments.  (Virginia Museum of  of Fine Arts in Sad R.  A very racist museum responsible for that statue across the street.  Of course this means that every statue put up on the avenue now will HAVE to be a black person.  That's not racist at all, is it?)

Again, What College Courses Do You Have to Take to Be An Activist?  --Old Secesh

Civil War II: Editorial, Trump, Veto, Kentucky, Georgia, School Name, Sad R.

DECEMBER 17, 2020

**  Tulsa World (Oklahoma) Editorial:  Trump should sign bill  that allows more  appropriate choice of who we want to honor with military base names.

**  Trump says he will veto $740 billion defense bill, breaking with Republican-led Senate.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

**  Jessamine's Confederate statue sits near site of lynching.  Time for it to move.  (Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky)

**  Cobb students continue push to remove Confederate general's name from school.  (Wheeler High School, Georgia)

**  Richmond Highway to replace Confederate street name.  (Sad R.  Will rename Jefferson Davis Highway.  Big surprise.)

--Old Secesh

North Carolina, New York, VA, Florida Holidays and Virginia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

**  Court dismisses  appeal over Winston-Salem Confederate monument's removal.  (North Carolina)

**  Cuomo signs bill banning sale of Confederate flags.  (Governor of New York.  Okay, now how about sale or display of all hateful BLM flags, posters and banners.)

**  The VA has a hospital named for a slavery supporting Confederate doctor.  And, it won't change, Wilkie says.   (Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Va.)

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

**  Editorial:  Confederate holidays have no place on Florida's calendar.  (Orlando Sentinel)

**  New York bans  sale, display of Confederate flag, other hate symbols on state property.

**  Virginia governor requests  $11 M to replace  Confederate statues with new artworks.  (In other words, black art.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Trump's Veto, Military Bases, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Police and School Names

DECEMBER 15, 2020

**  Trump keeps coming up with new reasons to veto Congress' huge annual defense bill.

**  Fort Bragg, Benning and Hood to be renamed  under NDAA.

**  Trump will veto the veto-proof defense spending bill:  White House.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

**  Group proposes several sites to house Bastrop County's Confederate monuments.  (Texas.  Two monuments.)

**  A look at Confederate monuments in Mississippi.  (A photo essay.)

**  Georgia cop fired for flying Confederate flag argues against city policy.   (Roswell)

**  Jackson schools named after Confederate leaders get new identity.  (Mississippi.  Both schools now named after Blacks.)

--Old Secesh

Dumb Ol' Dixie State U. Sometimes We Even Win One!!!!

DECEMBER 15, 2020

**  Utah college votes to nix Confederate-tied 'Dixie' name.  (Dixie State University  How dumb can you get.  Didn't they make a movie about them?  Maybe the one called "Dumb and Dumber."  

Now they'll just be called State University.  Next, someone will point out that universities do tests on animals without the animals' permission, so that will be dropped and they will just be called State.   Then, someone will say that State refers to state governments that carry out executions of criminals, so that will have to be dropped.

Then they will be called just  __________ .  A Dixie State of Mind as Bocephus would say.)

Next thing you  know, they'll have to change the name of the famous Mason-Dixon line markers to Mason-Martin Luther King Jr. line markers.

**  Confederate monument  outside Mississippi courthouse to remain after tie vote on moving it.    (Gulfport, Harrison County.  I am surprised.  I didn't think that was possible.  Harrison County joins two other counties, Lafayette and Lee counties where county supervisors have voted not to move their statues.

Forrest County supervisors put the issue on the Nov. 3 ballot and a majority of the people voted to keep their statue where it was.

Well, Sometimes We Win One.  A Rare Happening Indeed.  --Old Secesh

The Washington Post Surprises Again. Whose a White Racist? Can You Believe Sad R. Again?

DECEMBER 14, 2020

**  Compared with today's GOP,  the 1860 secessionists were softies.  (Wow, can you believe that the Washington Post would print something like this?)

**  Public school to strip name of Confederate general who advocated for black suffrage.  (Charlotte, N..C.  Rufus Barringer.  Was he the first activists for you-know-who?  Current activists thought the name Barringer Academic Center was named for Osmond Barringer.  Read history before open mouth.)

The school district renamed Zebulon B. Vance High School as the new Julius L. Chambers High School.  Chambers was a black man and worthy of having his name on the school  But, why does EVERYTHING now have to be named after a black person?

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

**  Confederate monuments are falling.  Here's what might take their place.  (National Geographic.  Virginia governor wants Lee statue gone and more diverse statues  (meaning Black) put up in their place on Monument Avenue.  Bug surprise there.  I tell you, that Sad R. mayor and Va. governor!!)    I do support removing the Lee statue, but not until it is cleansed and repaired from the hate crimes committed against if by the BLMers and their ilk.  What is up there now makes Sad R. look like a junkyard.

Personally I think the name of the avenue should be changed (but not to black person, personally I like Monumentless Avenue) and the remaining monument of Arthur Ashe removed as well as that statue by the art museum adjacent to it.  These two can be moved elsewhere in Sad R.  No statues should be put there in the future.  Maybe playgrounds are public gardens.

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Defense Act, Trump, Veto, Twitch, Naval Academy, Bowling Green and Alabama

DECEMBER 12, 2020

**  Senate votes through Defense Act with huge majority and dares Donald Trump to veto move to raise troops' pay and strip Confederate names from bases.  (This means quite a few Republicans voted to pass it.)

**  Twitch updates their  harassment policy, bans Confederate flag, explains why  using slurs is permitted.

**  Defense bill opens door to erasing Confederate names at the Naval Academy, and more for Maryland military posts.

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

**  Historic homeowners say they have not been contacted about Confederate  marker's relocation.  (Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Bowling Green was named the state capital of the Confederate state of Kentucky in 1861.  The marker originally was on the campus of Western Kentucky University, but taken down amid BLM and white minion uproar.)

**  Historian gives solutions for Alabama Confederate monument.  (Gadsden, Alabama.  Emma Samsun monument.  Leave monument but put up contextual signs around it.)

--Old Secesh

How Come All This Statue Hatred Wasn't Much Seen Before George Floyd's Death? Voting, Name Changes in Virginia, No Stamps in Oregon, That Defense Bill

DECEMBER 12, 2020

**  The racial reckoning  with Confederate monuments seems new.  But it dates back more than a century.  (All this makes me wonder, how come we didn't hear about hw bad all this Confederate stuff was until after the murder of George Floyd.  Did a Confederate murder him?  Did a statue kill him?  Why didn't we hear about this before?  There might have been some anti-statue fervor, but definitely not anything like we have today.)

**  Vote to remove Confederate  monument from Harrison County Courthouse.  (Gulfport, Mississippi.  The vote will be held on Monday, Dec. 14, but the headline makes it seem like a done deal and it will be a done deal because it is a group of politicians, not the people, who will be voting on it, the Harrison County Board of Supervisors.)

**  Fairfax County begins process of finding new names for Lee Highway, other sites that honor Confederates.  (Virginia.   And there are at least 150 names that will have to be changed.  All of the new nam3es will be of Blacks, of course.  Lots of Democrats and BLMers in Virginia, you know.  Actually, they should have put the name changes up for popular vote.

**  Pendleton releases  draft ordinance that could end Confederate stamp preservation.  (Oregon.  Wasn't this the state where BLMers and rioters took over the streets of a major city for several months?)

**  Senate overwhelmingly advances defense bill that will rename Confederate bases, squashing Trump's chances of a veto.

--Old Secesh

Let the Democrats Pay for Base Renaming. After All, It's Their Baby. Fort Bragg and Fort Hood, Voting and Vetoing

DECEMBER 11, 2020

**  Fort Bragg name will be changed in three years under defense bill sent to Trump. (I have no problem with changing the base names.  Just don't rename every one of them after a black person.  Also, these name changes will entail costs.  Let the politicians who are pushing the bill pay for the name changes.)

**  Coastal  county to vote  on Confederate  monument future.   (As long as it is a vote of the people, not politicians.)

**  Ted Cruz votes against defense  funding bill that would rename Fort Hood.  (More power to him.  A rare politician with backbone enough to stand up to BLMers.)

**  Senate sends Trump defense bill he has vowed to veto.

**  Loeffler, Perdue back defense bill despite base renaming provision.  (Georgia)

**  Trump:  I'll veto any defense funding bill that removes Confederate names  from military bases.

It's kind of sad that we have come to this in our history.

Also, Let the BLMers and NAACP and Their Ilk Pay for Renaming the Bases.   --Old Secesh

Fairfax County, Va, Sure Has a Lot of Confederate Names. Confederate Statues at National Parks, Virginia, Alabama and VCU

DECEMBER 10, 2020

**  Fairfax County History Commission outlines Confederate associated names throughout Fairfax County.  (Virginia.  Came up with 650.  That sure is a lot.)

**  History Commission identifies 150 Fairfax County sites named after Confederate figures.  (Virginia.  Well, is it 650 or 150?)

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

**  Omnibus negotiators may toss Confederate rider.   (A push to ban Confederate  symbols at national parks.  But, this may not pan out.  Let's hope not.  get rid of all things Confederate at Gettysburg and folks might begin to wonder who Union forces were fighting.)

**  Northampton takes no action on Confederate monument.  (Virginia)

**  Bill filed to remove Confederate flag from Alabama's state coat of arms.  (You think it will be removed?  I sure do.)

**  Removing plaques and building names with ties to Confederacy begins at VCU.  (Virginia Commonwealth University in Sad R.)

Fairfax County will have to change every last one of those horrible Confederate names.

--Old Secesh

What College Do You Have to Attend to Become a Community Activist? Teens, Vance, Asheville the Sad, North Carolina, Activists, CNN Does It Again, George Floyd and West Virginia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

**  Teen asks NC county to remove Confederate statue.  'History has its eyes on you, he says'   (Newton, North Carolina.   And, very surprisingly, he is a white person.)

**  Third and final Confederate monument to leave Asheville's Pack Square.  (Asheville, North Carolina.  The 65-foot Zebulon Vance monument.  Of course, Asheville is a big-time liberal town which wants to be a Sad R or Charlottesville.)

**  Activists say suit to remove Confederate monument  could right an old wrong.  (Gaston, North Carolina.  How come Blacks have so many activists?  What college do you have to go to to become an activist?  Well, one of those so-called community activists?  I have noticed we don't have any community activists here in Spring Grove.  Maybe we ought to post a job opening.  There sure seem to be a lot of them in certain areas of cities.  Surely, they could spare one, right?  And, don't call me Shirley.)

**  CNN's John Avlon compares Trump election supporters to 'Confederates.'  (Wow, imagine someone from CNN saying something like that.  I was completely shocked.  And, of course, those who opposed were... what?  This would be like the New York Times or Washington Post saying something like that.)

**  What progress was made  toward racial justice after George Floyd was killed?  (I'm not sure, but perhaps if certain people would quit committing so many crimes that might help.)

**  Capitol Building Commission listens to calls to remove Stonewall statue, but takes no action.  (Charleston, West Virginia)

Personally, I Think These Activists Wake Up Some Morning and Anoint Themselves an Activist.  "I Are Activist!!  Here Me Roar!!!"  --Old Secesh

Come On Twitch, What's Your Game? Norfolk Does a Good Job on Statue Relocation

DECEMBER 10. 2020

**  Twitch  officially bans blackface, swastikas and the Confederate flag in new, targeted guidelines.  (I had never heard of this so looked it up.  Apparently this is a big thing with folks who play those video games.  I've never played any but seen enough commercials and heard enough about how bloody and nasty those things are, so have to wonder what the Confederate flag did to get on the outs.)

Plus, what is a Twitch anyway?

**  Congress set to  strip Confederate names from US military bases, flouting Trump veto threat.

**  Sons of Confederate Veterans praises Norfolk's handling of monument relocation.  (The city did do a good job with the relocation into a cemetery.  But, I wish those who wanted it moved had paid for it instead of public funds.  You want it moved.  You pay for it.

Plus, it is less of a target for BLM or NAACP hate crimes now.  Well, hopefully.)

Come On.  Video Games Worried About Correctness.  That'll Be the Day.  --Old Secesh

Confederadication: Erase History, That Is the Answer? Maryland, North Carolina, Alabama, Street Names, Georgia and Fort Hood

DECEMBER 9, 2020

**  County poised to erase Confederate references from streets facilities.  (Montgomery County, Maryland)

**  Groups suing Gaston County over Confederate monument.  (North Carolina.  Black groups want it gone.  Imagine that?)

**  Confederate  statues law may  stop Montgomery from naming street for Fred Gray.  (Montgomery, Alabama.  Fred Gray was a Civil Rights activist.  The mayor, who is a Black, wants Jefferson Davis Avenue renamed for Gray.)

**  Georgia lawmakers strongly back bill to remove Confederate names from  bases.

**  Passage of defense bill  could mean Fort Hood gets new name.  (What could mean?  Would mean.)

--Old Secesh

So Sad About That VMI: Louisiana, Jeb Stuart, Congress, Trump Veto and North Carolina

DECEMBER 7, 2020

**  Virginia Military Institute removes Confederate statue.  (That of Stonewall Jackson.  Talk about a crime.  So sad.)

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

**  Virginia  Military Institute begins work to remove prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas Stonewall' Jackson.  What next, dishonor those VMI cadets who fought and died at the Battle of New Market?)

**  Patriotic texts  ordered at Confederate statue before it goes.  (Louisiana)

**  Park trail named after Confederate general Jeb Stuart renamed.  (Montgomery County, Maryland.)

**  Congress plans to strip Confederate names from US bases, including Fort Bragg.

**  House approves   defense bill  amid Trump veto threat.

**  North Carolina country commissioners vote to remove monument.

--Old Secesh

Florida, New Orleans, Book, Antietam, Charlotte and Trump

DECEMBER 7, 2020

**   Florida  Rep pushes to eliminate holidays honoring  Confederate leaders.

**  James Gill:  The sinners of the Confederacy hunted down, but not very consistently.  (New Orleans.  Wants more Confederate, slavery, white supremacist names changed.  That James is one particularly nasty person.)

**  Don Noble;  Book contains timely assessment of Confederate monuments' history.

**  House could vote on proposal to remove Lee statue at Antietam National Battlefield.  (I would sure hate to see all Confederate monuments at battlefields removed.)

**  Biggest issues heading into 2021, renaming street signs named after confederate  soldiers and slave owners.  (Charlotte.  Come on WCNC.  Confederate is a proper name.  Looks like you should have known that.)

**  Trump's re-election is Confederacy's new 'Lost Cause'

--Old Secesh

Sorry Guys. It Is Still Illegal to Remove a Confederate Monument in Alabama. You Broke the Law. Now Pay the Fine.

DECEMBER 5,  2020

**  Commission votes to add historical (context) texts  to walls around  Caddo Confederate monument.  (Louisiana.  Beware these texts.  They are good as long as factual.  Most of what goes up on these today are just current opinion of some people.)

**  Celtics' Jaylen Brown joins campaign to remove Confederate  general's name from his old high school.  (Wheeler High School in Georgia.  Well, if he's a basketball [player, he must really know.)

**  Virtual talk about slavery, the Confederacy & the roots of the monument debate.

**  Protesters  claim Confederate monument  fight not over.  (Gaston, North Carolina)

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

**  Madison County may fight $25,9000 fine for removing Confederate  monument: 'We did what was legal.'  (Alabama.  Sorry guys, it is still illegal at this time to remove a Confederate monument in your state.)

You Don't Want to Pay the Fine, Don't Do the Crime.  --Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: Bases, Whiteness? Congress, Traitors? and Heritage

DECEMBER 4, 2020

**  Renaming of military bases sparks controversy between residents.  (Fort Rucker, Alabama)

**  The violent story of American whiteness.  (Sounds a bit racist.)

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DECEMBER 5, 2020

**  Florida lawmakers target Confederate holidays.

**  Bill would remove Confederate flag from Alabama Coat of Arms.

**  Here's Congress' detailed plan to get rid of Confederate  base names and monuments.   (Bases to be renamed in the nest three years and all Confederate anything removed.)

**  Confederate traitors  should not be honored, Seidule writes.  (He's a college professor and should know better to make a statement like this.)

**  Etched in stone:  The hurt behind the heritage.

--Old Secesh

At What Point Will All Confederate Names Be Removed From History Books? Alabama, Texas, Virginia, Trump, Teaching, Oregon and Mississippi

DECEMBER 4, 2020

**  As Confederate statues fall and protests arise, Civil Rights museums are key to explaining why.

**  Alabama lawmaker moves to strike Confederate flag from coat of arms.  (A black woman.  How did they miss that.  She also wants any and everything Confederate gone.  Is that racist or what?  Wonder how long it took her to realize there was a Confederate flag on the coat or arms.  Kind of surprised no one else noticed it either.))

**  City to replace five more names dedicated to Confederate history and white supremacy.  (Austin, Texas.  Metz Park, Metz Pool, Dixie drive, Confederate  Street and Plantation Drive.)

**  Editorial:  Ordinance does not solve Confederate flag problem.   (Fredericksburg, Va.)

**  Lawmakers line up showdown with Trump over Confederate base names.

**  Editorial:  Teaching accurate, comprehensive history strengthens American society.  (As long as it is just the facts.  Today, so many of the facts are clouded by current culture.)

**  Pendleton activists condemn Confederate stamps.  (Oregon)

**  Augusta task force recommends  removing Confederate monuments, names.  (Georgia)

**  These pioneers tried  to get Confederate flag  out of Mississippi 156 years ago.

At What Point Will They Start Removing All Mentions of the Confederacy from History Text Books and Books in General?  --Old Secesh

Civil War II: Teaching All This, Charlotte, Streets, Trump, Virginia and That Lee Statue in Sad R.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

**  Confederate reckoning:   The teaching of the history of the Confederacy.   (How should topics such as slavery, the Confederacy, Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era be taught.  I believe all should be taught.  growing up for me, slavery was glossed over, the Confederacy and Reconstruction played up and really nothing said about the Jim Crow era.  All of these should be  taught.  However, comparing Confederates to Nazis is absolutely not acceptable.)

**  'Direct affront.'  City streets may be renamed over Confederacy, white supremacy ties."  (Charlotte, N.C.)

**  Call Trump's bluff on renaming military bases.  (Bloomberg)

**  Committee says Botetourt Confederate monument should end up in one of two places.  (Virginia.  In front of courthouse.)

**  Year of racial awakening may topple Richmond's last Confederate statue.  (And, believe me, the Lee statue needs to be cleaned and repaired at BLM cost since they committed the hate crimes and out of Sad R. as soon as possible.)

--Old Secesh

Renaming More Streets in North Carolina

DECEMBER 3, 2020

**  Defense bill moving forward with measure to scrub Confederate names from bases.

**  Charlotte City Council may change street names with ties to Confederacy, white supremacists.  (North Carolina

Ties with Confederacy , slavery and white supremacy:

Jefferson Davis Street

West Hill Street

Stonewall Street

Jackson Avenue

Phifer Avenue

Aycock Lane

Barringer Drive

Morrison Boulevard

Zebulon Avenue

Of course, these will be renamed for Blacks.

Rubbing It In.  --Old Secesh

The Garland Nambies? Texas, Schools, Mascots, South Carolina, Louisiana, Trump, Bases and Mississippi

DECEMBER 2, 2020

**  Garland ISD (Independent School District) wants help picking new mascot after dropping Confederate 'Colonel.'  (Texas.  How about the Garland Nambies?)

**  Beaufort will consider its monuments amid a broad reckoning over Confederate memorials.  (South Carolina)

**  Confederate monument in Shreveport to be discussed by commissioners.  (Louisiana)

**  Trump threatens to veto defense bill over tech liability shield.  (I thought the threatened veto was because of the Confederate-named bases.)

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

**  GOP chairman:  Defense bill to include renaming Confederate bases, but not Section 230 repeal.

**  Here's what August's Confederate task force wants to change.  (Georgia)

**  126 years later, Mississippi  changed its Confederate-themed flag.  This is how it happened.

Go You Garland Nambie Pambies!!   --Old Secesh

Pearl Harbor Survivors Won't Be Attending the Ceremonies This Year-- Part 2

But this year, the health risks among the aging survivors will prevent them from going.  The National Park Service and Navy will jointly host the event this year and the ceremony is also closed to the public.  

The gathering will be televised and will feature a moment of silence, a flyover in missing man formation and a speech by the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Mickey Ganitch served the rest of the war on the USS Pennsylvania, helping recapture the Alaskan islands of Attu and Kiska.  The battleship also bombarded Japanese positions  to help with the amphibious assaults on Pacific islands of Kwajalein, Saipan and Guam.

Ganitch remained in the U.S. Navy for more than twenty years.

--Pearl Harbor

Survivors Remember Pearl Harbor From Afar in 2020 Amid Pandemic-- Part 1

Every December 7 every one of my eight blogs devote themselves to this day.  I am not forgetting.

From then December 6, 2020, Go Erie (Ohio) by Audrey McAvoy, AP.

U.S. Navy sailor Mickey Ganitch was getting ready to play a football game in Pearl Harbor that day.  Instead of football, he spent the day scanning the skies for Japanese planes-- still wearing his padding and brown football uniform shirt. 

Now, 79 years later, the 101-year-old Ganitch and other survivors of the battle will not be attending the ceremonies there because of the virus.  He has attended them most years since the mid-2000s.

Nearly 80 years ago, his USS Pennsylvania football team  was scheduled to face the team from the USS Arizona.  They had donned their uniforms aboard their ships since there was nowhere to change near the football field.

The pigskin showdown never happened.

The USS Pennsylvania was in drydock when the attack took place so none of the torpedoes which did so much damage to other ships were able to hit them.  The ship was one of the first to return fire.  Even so, the ship lost 31 men.  Ganitch said a 500-pound bomb missed him by about 45 feet.

--Pearl Harbor

The Confederacy Under Attack: Mississippi, School, Trump, Fort Lee, Georgia, South Carolina and Oregon

DECEMBER 1, 2020

**  Confederate president's name to disappear from Biloxi school.  (Mississippi)

**  Kaine:  Trump's threat to veto defense spending bill over Fort Lee renaming is 'a big bluff.'

**  Confederate monuments task force returns with recommendations.  (Augusta, Georgia.  No big surprise.  recommend moving two monuments from public to private property, removing all Richmond County signage and statues on Jefferson Davis Highway, change the name of John C. Calhoun Highway and change the name of Gordon Highway and Fort Gordon.  Kind of anti-Confederate recommendations I believe.)

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

**  Beaufort will consider its monuments amid broad reckoning over Confederate memorials.  (South Carolina)

**  Pendleton reverses course on Confederate preservation.  (Oregon)

--Old Secesh

New Orleans Plans on Renaming Streets-- Part 2

Current name / their "crime" / Proposed name and why

DREAUX AVENUE / First Confederate officer killed in Civil War / Frances Joseph-Gaudet Avenue  Black/Indian woman and prison reform advocate.

GEN. EARLY DRIVE /  Confederate general / Dent Drive   /  Famous black family in New Orleans

GEN. OGDEN STREET / Nicknamed General for actions at Liberty Place / Herman Midlo Street  Civil Rights activist.

FORSHEY STREET / Caleb Goldsmith Forshey, Confederate Engineering Corps / Buddy Bolden Street  One of the founders of jazz.

LEONIDAS STREET / Leonidas Polk, Confederate general / Mahalia Jackson Street   Queen of Gospel and Civil Rights activist.

CALHOUN STREET /  John C. Calhoun, slavery supporter / Father Louis J. Twombley Street  Jesuit brother and  social justice organizer.

GENERAL TAYLOR STREET / Son of President Zachary Taylor and Confederate general /  Professor Longhair Street   New Orleans musician.

You Will Notice, All But One of These Renamings Go to Black People.  --Old Secesh

New Orleans Plans on Renaming Streets-- Part 1

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

I wrote about this situation last month in a post where New Orleans was planning on renaming 37 places within the city.  They plan to ban all names with Confederate, racial, white supremacist ties.

Here are some of the proposals.

Current Name / Their "Crime" / Proposed Name and why:

LEE CIRCLE / Confederate general / Leah Chase Circle  Legendary Creole chef whose restaurant was used for civil rights movement meetings.

ROBERT E. LEE BOULEVARD / Confederate general / Allen Toussaint Boulvard    Famed black songwriter and producer

WALKER STREET / Confederate general / Jasper Street   Former slave

MOUTON STREET / Confederate general /  Margaret Elizabeth Street    Escaped enslavement.

LANE STREET / Confederate general / Georges Street   Escaped enslavement.

BRAGG STREET / Confederate general / Celestin Street  Escaped enslavement.

More.  --Old Secesh

So Is the Confederate Flag Ban Good for NASCAR? Georgia, Flags, Oregon and Virginia

 DECEMBER 1, 2020

**  Lawsuit to keep two Confederate monuments in Georgia returns to court.   (Macon)

**  Etched in stone: A look  at the legacy of Confederate monuments.

**  Civil suit to block removal of Confederate monument.   (Georgia)

**  Confederate flag keeps showing up at NJ right-wing rallies.  (And BLM flags show up at left-wing rallies.)

**  Pelham leaders phasing out police patches with Confederate flag after complaints.  (Georgia.  Guess who doesn't like it?   The city was also named after a Confederate officer.  Reckon that will also have to be changed.)

**  Pendleton mayor asks city council to reconsider Confederate street names.  (Oregon)

**  Warner assails Trump's move to protect Confederate site names.  (Virginia Senator Mark Warner, Democrat.  Big surprise.)

**  Jamie Little thinks the Confederate flag ban has been good for NASCAR: 'We represent everyone.'  (It will be interesting to see how their fans vote once the races are open again.  Will they show up or boycott.  That will be interesting.)

Only Time Will Tell, I Guess.  --Old Secesh

Georgia, Ohio, Texas, North Carolina and Trump

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

**  Suit to keep Confederate statues returns to Georgia court.

**  Gordon asks about  Confederate memorabilia removal on city property.  (Portsmouth, Ohio)

**  Garland finally moves against Confederate colonels.  (Texas.  High School mascot.)

**  Graham protesters gather around Confederate monument, hold discussions with counter protesters.  (North Carolina.  Discussion is always the better way to approach differences of opinion.)

**  Let Trump try to defend racist, traitorous Confederates.  Congress can still prevail.  (Washington Post.  It is very typical for this newspaper to have this sort of journalism.)

--Old Secesh

Why Not Drop the Renaming From the Defense Bill and Wait Till Trump's Out of There? Mississippi, Fort Sumter and Legislatures

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

**  The old state flag with the Confederate battle emblem isn't dead yet.  (Mississippi.  And, of course, the new one features the words "In God We trust."  I'm sure someone is going to be offended by that.)

**  Trump threatens to veto military  funding over provision to rename Confederate military bases.  (Id I were the Dems, I would just drop that part of the bill, pass it, and then the next time around, put it in and Biden will definitely sign it.  Either that, or just pass a bill to rename after Trump is gone.)

**  Fort Sumter sees sharp decline in visitors amid COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice year.

**  Turn monument issue over to legislature.  (Never.  The people should be allowed to vote on it, not people who are scared of BLM.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Arkansas, Mississippi, State Flags, Alabama

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

**  Confederate monument stays on historic list during transition.  (Bentonville, Arkansas)

**  City of Jackson officially  approves flying new state flag.  (Mississippi)

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NOVEMBER 28, 2020

**  Alabama AG criticizes Confederate monument removals.  (Attorney General.  Says removal goes against 2017 law prohibiting it.)

**  Board accepts bid for Confederate monument removal.  (Greenville County.  From the courthouse square to Emporia Cemetery.  $60,000.  Again, those who want it removed should foot the whole bill.)

**  Sheriff's Department racial panel tackles  Confederate flag, other topics.

**  AG Marshall files  suit against Madison County for removing Confederate monument.  (Huntsville, Alabama.)

--Old Secesh

This Makes You Wonder Where BLM Priorities Are?

From November 24, 2020,Chicago Sun-Times "Chicago hits 700 homicides in 2020; 6 die over weekend" by David Struett, CST Wire reporter.

"Chicago reached 700 homicides this year during a violent weekend that saw six killed and 46 wounded -- the second time the city reached the 700 milestone in two decades.

Meanwhile, U.S. deaths the last three years in Afghanistan:

2017:  11

2018:  13

2019:  17

Chicago has had a 53% increase in shootings this year over the same time frame in 2019.

The vast majority of those killed and wounded have been Blacks.  And, the shooters were mostly Blacks.

And yet, BLM is just focused on Blacks shot by police and Confederate monuments.

Makes you wonder just a little bit.

Maybe BLM Should Re-evaluate Its Goals.  --Old Secesh

New Orleans Prepares to Shame Itself Again

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

**  See 37 New Orleans  streets, sites up for renaming, and who would be newly honored:  City Council considers stripping ties to Confederacy, segregation, denial of civil rights.  (Way out of line.  Looking at the current names, everyone of them will be renamed after a black person.)

If New Orleans really wants to completely do away with its connections to these things, they need to tear down the whole city and rebuild elsewhere.  Why go part way when you can go all the way.  The city was built by slaves.

I notice Jackson Square is not under consideration for renaming.

By the way, New Orleans.  What has been done with the Confederate statues already taken down?  These should be turned over to UDC or SCV and all expenses paid for relocation.  Better yet, let the people who wanted them removed pay for it themselves.

Worth checking out the names and proposed new names.

At the very least, let the people decide on renaming.  Put it to a vote.  There should be enough Blacks and their white minions in New Orleans to pass renaming .

Renaming Confederate sites after Blacks is just a slap in the face and pouring salt into the wounds.

--Old Secesh

Towns Should Not Be Allowed to Sell Confederate Monuments. Arkansas, Ohio, Texas, Tennessee and Alabama

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

**  Bentonville Confederate monument to stay on National register of Historic Places (Arkansas.  Even though it has been moved.)

**  Petition askes for two Fairfield streets commemorating Confederate generals be renamed.  (Ohio.  Robert E. Lee Drive and Stonewall Lane.)

**  Enterprise editorial:  Beaumont Council was correct  to sell Confederate statue. (Texas.  Sold it for $25,000 after asking $50,000.  Appraised at $150,000.  Towns should not be able to sell these statues.  They need to be turned over to museums or better yet SCV or UDC.  All expenses should be paid by the cities are better yet, those who want them removed.)

**  Owner of land near I-65 holding controversial Confederate general statue has died.  (Nashville, Tennessee.  Nathan Forrest.  Has been "vandalized" often.  Those are actually hate crimes.)

**  Protests  continue in Albertville for the removal of Confederate monument and flag. (Alabama.  A fence was put up around them to keep BLMers from committing hate crimes.)

--Old Secesh

Trump Again, White Supremacist Militia, Texas and Sad R.,

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

**  Losing hasn't changed Trump's stance on white supremacy.  (New York magazine.  Trump still plans to veto defense bill over base name changes and won't condemn the white supremacist militias at Kenosha and Portland.  I personally do not like seeing weapons at potentially out-of-control situations like during BLM rioting, looting, burning and hate crimes.

However, the reporters don't say anything about whether BLM has the right to do their rioting, burning, looting and hate crimes.)

**  Texas Senate panel revisits debate over Confederate art at Capitol.

**  City Council receives bids from 22 who want Confederate statues.  (Had it been any other city than Sad R., this would be unbelievable.  The city should pay for not only the statues being taken down, but also provide funds to the SCV and UDC for putting them up elsewhere.  Plus, of course, funds need to be available for when BLMers and their white minions commit hate crimes at the statues in their new locations.)

**  Confederate monument to remain in place at courthouse.  (Kaufman County, Texas.  County commissioners voted against removing them.)

Are There Black Supremacists?   --Old Secesh

Trump, Texas, Virginia, Confederate Railroad and Kentucky Towns Racial Unity Logo

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

**  Donald Trump stands for Confederacy one last time.  (About the defense bill.  Big surprise to have an article like this in the Washington Post, a major BLM backer and anti-Confederate organ.  Them and the New York Times.)

**  Beaumont Council OKs Confederate statue sale.  (Texas.  Had a $25,000 offer, much lower than the $150,000 appraisal.)

**  Fate of three Confederate paintings in Texas Senate chamber is uncertain.  (Three portraits of Jefferson Davis, Albert Sidney Johnston and  John  H. Reagan.)

**  In Prince William County, Jefferson Davis Highway will soon be renamed Richmond Highway.  (Virginia.  Wait a minute, wasn't Richmond the capital of you-know-what.  Now called Sad R.)

**  President Trump vows to veto defense bill  over Confederate base names.  (See the first article in this post.  What the Democrats and Blacks can do is take the renaming part of the bill out and wait until Trump is gone, then pass another bill to rename the bases.  That will be one Biden will gladly sign.  No Problem!)

**  Wynonna  postpones visit, Confederate Railroad to Play Branson Star.  (Branson, Arkansas.  Wynonna canceled because of Covid.  Confederate Railroad to play instead.  The last several years, Confederate Railroad has come under attack because of their name and logo.  You know who is attacking them, even Illinois' Governor Toilets.  Their still out there, with the name and logo.  Congrats guys.  But you know that you're probably on that racist group SPLC's hit list with that name and logo.

**  City approves  racial unity  design for water tower.  (Paducah, Kentucky.  It has a white and black arm clasping over a U.S. flag.

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Texas, Defense Bill, Democrats, Racism, Stamps and Titans

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

**  Beaumont  identifies bidder for Confederate monument.  (Texas. removed from Weiss Park this summer.  Holmes Firm PC of Dallas bought it.  But, Beaumont City Council will have to authorize selling it for a fraction of its estimated value.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Stafford votes to cap limits on flagpole height  following Confederate flag removal.  (Virginia)

**  Dem divide over  Confederate bases  threatens massive defense bill.

**  Confederate flag barred as Niskayuna schools adopt anti-racist policy.  (New York.  However, nothing was said about racist BLM symbols.)

**  Texas  Senate committee wades into debate over tributes to the Confederacy  with focus on artwork.

**  Confederate Stamp Alliance votes to change  its name.  (They've had the name for  85 years.  Now will be called the Civil War Philatelic  Society.  Ridiculous.

**  Titans may be remembered, but T.C. Williams to be forgotten.  (T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia.  Home of the Titans of the movie fame.  Name will be changed.  If the name has been offensive for that long, why is it just now being changed?)

--Old Secesh

Turning All This Into a Teachable Moment: T.C. Williams High School and Matthew Maury Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

**  Alexandria turns  controversy into  opportunity by teaching  the history of Confederate namesakes.  (Virginia.  Much controversy about renaming two schools:  T.C. William High School and Matthew Maury Elementary.  T.C. Williams is a former superintendent who, according to Blacks, was a racist and wanted to keep schools segregated.  Maury, of course, was a Confederate.

This is a very teachable moment for the kids.  As long as it is a balanced look at the two men.  Along with racists or segregationist tendencies of the two men, their other accomplishments should be noted as well.  Let the kids make up their own minds.

By the way, T.C. Williams High School is the one in the movie "Remember the Titans" about the black and white school football players after the school was integrated in 1971.)

Good teachers always take advantage of a good teaching moment.  

Just Don't Be Too One-Sided.  --Old Secesh

Civil War II: Alabama, Georgia, Charlottesville, Time Capsule, Army Bases, Democrats and Forrest

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

**  Alabama  Attorney General sues Madison County over removal of Confederate statue.  (Huntsville)

**  Georgia city to remove Confederate monument from park.  (Brunswick)

**  Water-damaged items salvaged from Confederate statue's time capsule in Albemarle.  (Charlottesville, Virginia)

**  House Democrats  consider slower timeline for renaming bases that honor Confederates.  (U.S. Congress.  Now supporting three years to change names.  Of course, Democrats are the black party.  I'm for changing the names, but don't ant every one of the Confederate-named bases named after Blacks.  I'm sure that is what the Democrats want.)

**  Lawyers request removal of KKK leader's remains from Memphis.  (Nathan Forrest, of course.  The SCV want the remains to be reinterred with them.)

I'd Like To Have Forrest's Remains Removed from Memphis As Well.--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: Fort Hood, Alabama Sues County, Georgia and CAIR

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

**  Defense bill in danger over Confederate-named  military bases like Fort Hood.  (Texas)

**  State of Alabama sues Madison County over relocation of Confederate monument.  (One-time fine of $25,000.  Those who wanted it moved should pay the fine as well as all costs associated with moving it.)

**  Explaining the court battle over downtown Macon's Confederate monuments.  (Georgia)

**  Brunswick votes to remove Confederate statue once legal questions are resolved.  (Georgia)

**  CAIR welcomes removal of Wisconsin rock with racist  history, decries vote to keep Confederate statue in Virginia..  (CAIR is an Islamic civil rights and advocacy group.  The Wisconsin boulder is one that students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have called for years as the "N word head" rock.  Why are the Islamic folks getting involved with this?)

--Old Secesh

About That Defense Bill. The Talbot Boys, Alabama and Trump

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

**  Forts named after Confederate generals could be a sticking point for NDAA.  (National Defense Act)

**  Sen. Inhofe is blocking  efforts to rename Army bases  that honor Confederate  generals, Democrats say.  (Sen. Jim Inhofe (R. Oklahoma)

**  Military pay raise at risk in dispute over naming bases with Confederate names.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

**  After rejection, advocates continue push to remove  Confederate Talbot Boys statue.  (Talbot County, Maryland.  Earlier this year, the County Council voted to keep it.  Talbot County is only 12.8% Blacks.  Of course, if they put it to a vote by the people it will be kept.)

** Confederate names, and Trump's veto threat, the only roadblock to $740 billion  defense bill.

**  Commission votes to remove Confederate monument.  (Brunswick)

**  Fence place around  Confederate monument at Marshall County Courthouse.  (Marshall County, Alabama.  For protection against BLM hate crimes.)

Personally, I support renaming the Army bases.  These men did fight against the United States.  However, I don't want all of the bases renamed for black military members.  I also think that those who are so driven to demand renaming should be made to pay for it.

--Old Secesh

Franklin Co. Va. Keeping Their Statue, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Washington, D.C.

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

**  Virginia's Franklin County won't move its Confederate statue.  (The people have voted to keep it.)

**  Task force  to seek removal of Asheville's Confederate monument it calls 'symbol of white supremacy.'  (North Carolina.  The Gov. Vance statue.  This city is sure becoming North Carolina's Sad City.)

**  The 126-year fight to change Mississippi's state flag.

**  Trump's Confederate base  veto threat imperils defense bill.

**  Toppled,  warehoused, waiting:  Confederate statue still in limbo in DC.  (Statue of Albert Pike was toppled and "vandalized."  Both are hate crimes.  Nothing happens if hate crimes are committed against Confederate statues and memorials.)

**  Committee formed to help determine Confederate statue's fate.  (Berryville, Clark County, Virginia)

**  The history of Craven Quad's  namesake, a slave owner and Confederate supporter.  (Duke University, North Carolina.  Braxton Craven.  You know what they want done to the name.)

The People Have Spoken in Franklin County, BLM.  Now Hush.  --Old Secesh

Confederadication: Texas' 'Colonel', Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

**  Garland ISD  drops ties to Confederate past after board votes to change  a high school  mascot.  (Texas.  Their mascot was named "The Colonel."  The name colonel does not exactly denote Confederate, but it was dressed in gray.)

**  Police chief who backed charges against lawmaker in Confederate   statue case fired.  (Virginia.  And, I am hoping she files a lawsuit against Portsmouth and the state senator.  That state senator was guilty of inciting a riot and causing it to sink into illegal actions.)

**  Asheville Confederate Vance monument  should be removed, not  repurposed: task force members.  (North Carolina)

**  Franklin County  leaders vote unanimously to keep Confederate  statue  in front of courthouse. (Virginia.  Earlier the people of the county had voted overwhelmingly to keep it.  You go with what the people want, not what a minority wants.)

**  Protesters clash over Confederate monument, respect for veterans.(Albertville, Alabama)

**  Four Lee County public schools to change names away from Confederate leader.  (South Carolina.  Robert E. lee)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: North Carolina. Colorado, NDAA and Stone Mountain

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

**  Lawsuit filed  to have Gaston County Confederate  monument relocated.  (North Carolina)

**  Bennet, Dems support defense bill provision removing Confederate names from bases. (Colorado.  Again, if the base names are removed, those who want them removed should pay for it.)

** Charges dismissed against Sen. Lucas, NAACP leaders in Confederate monument case.  (Virginia.  Again, time to recall that judge who ruled this way.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

**Formal NDAA  talks to begin under shadow of  Confederate renaming  issue.  (National Defense Authorization Act.  Money for the military.)

**  Stone Mountain Park officials weigh change  to Confederate tributes.  (Georgia.  besides the carving on the side of the mountain, some want Confederate street names changed.

--Old Secesh

Something Else Stinks in Virginia. North Carolina, Voting to Remove Those Statues

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

**  Charges dismissed against Sen. Louis Lucas in  Confederate monument case.  (Portsmouth, Virginia.  This woman agitated crowds to desecrate a Confederate monument in that city.  She was guilty as all get out and got off thanks to the "judicial" system in the state.  There is definitely something mighty wrong with public officials in that state.

And the police chief who had her arrested was fired for doing her job.  The stink just gets worse in this state.

The few times the people have spoken, they voted to keep the statues.

Virginia needs a huge recall effort or how long before the rascals can be voted out?

**  Business as usual one month after statue departure.  (Lexington, North Carolina.

**  New lawsuit provides model for attorneys seeking to remove Confederate  monuments.  (Gaston County, North Carolina.)

No Monuments Should Be Removed Other Than By the People Voting.  --Old Secesh

Civil War II: Slavery, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

**  Enslaved, terrorized,  disenfranchised: Black Americans still found ways to change America.  (New York Times.  Big surprise that they would print an article like this.

**  Virginia  police chief fired as  felony charges dropped in Confederate vandalism  case.  (Portsmouth.  A Virginia state senator riled a crowd to destroy a Confederate monument.  Why she would still be allowed to be in the state government could only happen in a state that has descended into the depths as far as Virginia.  She should be in jail.  What she was trying to have happen was nothing less than a hate crime, something that is generally frowned upon unless it is against something Confederate.

Plus, obviously her devious power reaches far enough to get someone for for doing their job correctly.  Only in Virginia.  What has happened to Virginia?

**  Franklin, Tennessee's 'Fuller Story' is focus of  first Confederate Reckoning   event Dec. 3.

**  Woman arrested at Confederate  monument protest.   (Albertville, Alabama.)

**  Stone Mountain Park's overseers to weigh change in Confederate tributes.  (Georgia)

--Old Secesh

Does Black Lives Matter Mean Hate? VMI, Albertville, North Carolina and West Virginia

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

**  VMI Visitors  Council moves Stonewall Jackson statue.  (Also the one for Francis J. Smith who served in the Confederate Army and  a memorial to VMI cadets who fought as a unit at the Battle of New Market.  (This is a very disturbing thing.  That Virginia governor had a hand in this.  About time for a recall if you ask me.  But, how could the council do this?)

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

**  Protests continue  in Albertville after confederate flag removed and put back up.  (Alabama.  Come on guys.  Proper Name!!)

**  Fate of Tarboro's Confederate remains unknown.  (North Carolina)

**  Seventeen members of West Virginia's Senate call the phrase "Black Lives Matter" as hate speech.   (I agree with that.)

Does Black Lives Matter Mean Hate?  You Betcha.--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Lawsuit, Florida, South Carolina, Oregon and Texas

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

**  Lawsuit aims to remove  Confederate monuments at NC, with Gaston's first.  (According to the racist group SPLC, there are 40 Confederate statues in front of county courthouses across the state.)

**  Confederate monument  reaction.  (Palatka, Florida.  Rallies held.  County Board gives three-month time frame for removal as says it will cost $200,000.  Again, you want it gone, you pay for it.)

**  Controversial Confederate monument goes before Anderson Co. council; leaders say it is out of their hands.  (South Carolina.  WSPA 7 News.  Hey, guys, Confederate is a proper name.  You should know what to do with proper names.)

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NOVEMBER 15. 2020

**  Letter:  Confederate street stamps belong at museum.  (Pendleton, Oregon.  Some streets named after Confederates.)

**  Two opposing groups  set up near Confederate monument in Georgetown.  (Austin, Texas)

--Old Secesh

Perhaps Blacks Should Concentrate More on Black on Black Crime Instead of Confederate Symbols (Especially in Chicago)

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

**  Confederate heritage group replaces battle flag  at Alabama monument.  (Albertville. Replaced Confederate flag with the first Alabama flag flown after secession.

**  NC NAACP  chapter sues Gaston  County over Confederate monument.  (Imagine a group like NAACP suing for this.  Kind of racist of them, isn't it.)

**  'A New Dawn': How four young black activists powered movement to remove Confederate emblem from Mississippi flag.  (By the Southern Poverty Law Center, an ultra racist group.  Maybe those four young people would better have served the cause by getting Blacks to stop shooting and killing each other in Chicago.

By the way, according to Hey Jackass, Chicago mayhem this past weekend so far resulted in 3 dead and 20 shot, mostly Blacks.   Last week's totals 11/9 to 11/14:  16 killed, 57 wounded.  November to Date:  30 killed, 134 wounded and 2020 so far:    642 killed and 3089 wounded.  Not all of these killings and woundings were Blacks, but the vast majority were.

All of this is so much more of a danger to Blacks than Confederate flags or statues.

Hey, SPLC, Still Waiting for Your List on How Many BLM Demonstrations Ended Up With Riots, Looting, Burning and Hate Crimes.   When Can We expect That List?   --Old Secesh

Muslims? Kentucky, South Carolina, Confederate Is a Proper Name, College Professors and Sad R.

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

**  CAIR  stands with calls to remove the Confederate marker in Collierville Town Square.  (Tennessee.  CAIR is a Muslim group.)

**  Committee settles on museums as Confederate statue sites.  (Owensboro, Kentucky)

**  Controversial confederate  monument goes before  Anderson Co.  council; leaders say it is out of their of their control.  (South Carolina.7 News CBS.  Hey guys, Confederate is a proper name.  You'd think a journalist might know that.)

**  Working to remove an upstate Confederate monument.  (Anderson, Anderson County, South Carolina)

**  'A healthy debate': LSY history experts weigh in on the removal of Confederate symbols.  (Louisiana State University.  I am wondering if there are any pro-Confederate college professors?  I don't think so.)

**  Special prosecutor wants State Police involvement in Confederate statue removal probe.  (Sad R.  The mayor gave a sweet $1.8 million special deal to a donor.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Veterans Day, Alabama, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina and Tennessee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

**  Reader's View:  Confederate flag has a place on Veterans Day.

**  Confederate flag removed from Marshall County Courthouse in Albertville.  (Alabama)

**  Confederate monument discussion to continue today.  (Madisonville,  Hopkins County, Kentucky)

**  Confederate flag not welcome  at Swampscott protests.  (Maine.  They say it is intolerant and racist.  But they allow BLM with their intolerant and racist signs.  Really?)

**  Confederate heritage group replaces battle flag at monument.  (Albertville, Alabama.  Sons of Confederate Veterans replaced it with the first flag Alabama raised after seceding from the Union.)

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

**  Group reinstates  Confederate flags along I-40 in NC.  (Put up by the Old North State Flaggers)

**  Clarksville settles  lawsuit with Confederate  group.  (Tennessee. The city will pay $34,000.  The people who wanted the Confederate symbols gone should have paid it.)

--Old Secesh

People Wanting Confederate Statues Removed Should Also Pay for It. Virginia, Streets, Texas, Voting to Stay, Kentucky and Military Bases

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

**  Confederate Avenue renamed in Virginia amid racial reckoning.  (SadR.)

**  Six rural Virginia counties vote overwhelmingly to keep Confederate monuments.

**  Relocation Committee to move forward with options to relocate Confederate monument.  (Owensboro, Kentucky)

**  Ordinance to help fund removal of Confederate statues, revamp downtown passes committee.  (Macon, Georgia.  Personally, those people wanting the statues moved should pay for all expenses.)

**  Fort Hood is named  for a Confederate traitor.  Is it time for Fort Benevidez?  (Texas)

**  Defying Trump, 37 Senate Dems urge mandate  to rename bases  honoring Confederate generals stay in defense bill.  (Big surprise there.)

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

**  Fairfax County removes Confederate monuments that long stood outside courthouse.  (Virginia)

You Want It Moved?  You Pay For It!!  --Old Secesh

Ask Amy, Something Mighty Fishy in Sad R. If the Confederate Flag is Offensive in School, What About BLM Items?

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

**  Ask Amy:  Friend's Confederate flag-waving hard to ignore.  (Have we come to this, Dear Abby?)

**  City leaders to discuss renaming Confederate Avenue.  (Sad R..  As we know from the previous post, they not only discussed it, they did it same night.)

**  Texas students disciplined for wearing Confederate clothing to school.  (All schools need to also ban anything BLM as this organization is as hateful and racist as any Confederate flag.  Plus, BLM is responsible for numerous riots, looting and burning.  Let's make it fair.)

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

**  Group raises massive Confederate flag over I-40 after residential election.  (North Carolina)

**  Prosecutor decides to investigate $1.8 million contract to remove Richmond's Confederate statues.  (Sad R.  There was definitely something mighty fishy going on there.  I can't help but wonder how the vote would have been on removal had this been allowed to go to a public vote instead of left up to the BLM supporters.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Name That School. Monumentless Avenue in Sad R., A New Home After the Dead of the Night.

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

**  Abilene ISD (Independent School District) asks community to rank names  for Confederate schools.  (Texas.  These are schools with Confederate names that are going to be changed.  They have a list of 12 names to replace the names of Lee, Jackson and Johnston schools.  I imagine these are all black names.  Hopefully some are not of activists but are of blacks who have succeeded on their own.)

**  Richmond's Confederate Avenue now Laburnum Park Boulevard after city council renaming.  (Sad R.  I also would recommend that the name of Monument Avenue be changed to something other than a black name.  Perhaps Monumentless Avenue.  And, there should be no statues of anybody along it.  Move the Arthur Ashe statue somewhere else and the art museum's statue across the street.)

**  Fairfax Confederate statues removed,  set to be relocated.  (Virginia.  The John Quincy Marr Monument will go to the Stuart Mosby Historical Society and the  two cannons to the Manassas National Battlefield  Park.  Glad they found new places for the items.  Again, they were removed during the dead of the night.  Something about statue removals at night, you know.)

--Old Secesh

Keeping a Confederate Monument in Mississippi Despite Black and University Vote: Another Road, Rhode Island's Name and a Compromise

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

**  Voters narrowly approve keeping Confederate statue in place.  (Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi.  51% voted to keep the statue.  There are also a lot of Blacks living in the city and county as well as a university (University of Southern Mississippi) which may account for why the vote was so close.)

**  NC Looks to take Confederate Jefferson Davis' name off highway.

**   Five states OK  measures eradicating  racist language, symbols.    (Rhode Island removed the word plantation from the state's title.  Let me know when they've gone too far.  Official name is:   "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.  So, now the word plantation is a bad word?   Other states are removing Jim Crow laws from the books which is a good move.)

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

**  Fairfax County has removed Confederate monuments from  its courthouse property.  (Virginia)

**  Confederate monument in downtown Dublin not being removed, plaza also to honor Herbert 'Hub' Dudley.  (Dublin, Georgia.  Herbert Dudley was a prominent black businessman and civil rights activist.  An acceptable compromise for me anyway.)

--Old Secesh

Taking a Day Off to Salute All of Our American Military on Veterans Day 2020

They are the reason why we have the liberties and freedoms as well as the opportunities to succeed.  There are those who would rather we not have them.  These are the thing desert fatigues line that protects us.

And, that includes the American veterans who wore the gray during the Civil War.

Every one of my blogs today is saluting all American veterans.

In keeping with this, a World War II veteran and a Rosie the Riveter were honored in Centerville, Ohio, today.

**   1st Lt. Walter Pettit, 97, was a member of the Army Air Corps  and saw action in the skies over France and Germany, flying a P-47 Thunderbolt.

**  Ruth Snively, 95,  worked at the Seeburg Factory in Chicago as one of the war's "Rosie the Riveters."  Seeburg was known for their jukeboxes, but during the war made sonar sets for the Navy.

I have my U.S. flags out flying proud.  Hope you have yours as well.

Thank You veterans and, of course, the Greatest Generation.  

Civil War II: Tennessee, Florida, Sad R., UDC, North Carolina, Jefferson Davis Highway

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

**  Clarksville will pay Sons of Confederate Veterans for removing memorial, signage.  (Tennessee.  Will pay $34,000.)

**  Confederate statue relocation open for  discussion at workshop.  (Palatka, Florida)

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

**  Confederate statue at courthouse removed.  (Douglas County)

**  Richmond's mayor took down Confederate monuments this summer.  That  move may have vaulted him to another term in office.  (Sad R.  I think he should be in jail instead of another term in office especially in regards to his good buddy deal for statue removal.  Such a radical is he.)

**  Daughters of the Confederacy remain silent as deadline approaches.  (Daviess County)

**  Sign of the Times:  NCDOT wants  Jefferson Davis  Highway markers gone.  (North Carolina)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Stone Mountain, Boat Racing, Georgia, Schools, Bubba, Mississippi and Virginia

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

**  Reporter's Notebook:  A good time for Georgia  to address Stone Mountain's Confederate status.

**  Charleston Ocean Racing  Association changing symbol that looks like Confederate flag.  (South Carolina.  Well, it is part of the flag. Sperry, a boating shoe company, is a big sponsor and considering not sponsoring the 2021 event.)

**  Confederate statue at Douglas County courthouse moved Thursday.  (Georgia)

**  Students wore 'Confederate' attire to school, district says.  Texas NAACP outraged.   (Pearland High School.  But, it is okay for students to wear the offensive BLM stuff to school.  Where's the reason?)

**  Bubba Wallace, who urged Confederate flag ban, honored.  (For driving another nail into NASCAR's coffin?  Another example of a black person (and he is only half black, the other half is white) playing the race card.)

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NOVEMBER 7, 2020

**  For black students, Mississippi's new state flag means  end of a 'Confederate' relic.

**  Confederate monuments removed from Fairfax County Courthouse.  (Virginia)

--Old Secesh

Six Out of Six Virginia Counties Vote to Keep Confederate Statues Where They Are (Maybe There's Hope for Virginia After All)

It seems like forever  since we've had some victories in this Confederadication regime, and it sure feels good.

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

**  Absentee ballots to determine fate of Forrest Co. Confederate monument.  (Mississippi.  Before absentee voting is counted, 13,811 voted to keep it on court house grounds and 11,793 voted to move it.  I guess they will also have to change the county name because of you-know-who.)

**  Referendum results:  Confederate monuments projected to stay out in 6 Virginia counties.

**  Voters:    Confederate statue should stay at Franklin County courthouse.  (Rocky Mount, Virginia.  With 24 precincts reporting, 21,152 voted to keep it where it is, 9,056 vote to move it.)

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

**  Did you vote against removing a confederate (Confederate) monument?  Here's why your vote is not binding.  (WSLS News, Virginia.  Come on guys, Confederate is a proper name.  You can really tell whose side these folks are on, and it's not Confederate heritage.)

**  List asked to oust  Confederate monument.  (Arkansas)

**  Referendum Results:  Confederate monuments projected to stay in Franklin, Halifax and four other Virginia counties.  (There were a total of six counties with the removal question on the ballot in the form of a referendum.  So six out of six Virginia counties voted to keep the statues where they were.  You think BLM is going to stand for this?  Somebody else's Brown Shirts sure wouldn't have.)

Now We Know Why BLM Doesn't Want the People to Vote on Removal.  It Is Too Bad the Majority of the People Don't Stand Up to BLM's Bullying Tactics.  --Old Secesh

Still Voting to Keep Confederate Monuments

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

**  Mississippi voters choose a new state flag after 126 years with Confederate emblem.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

**  Mississippi voters approve  flag with magnolia instead of Confederate symbol.

**  Residents vote to keep Confederate statue in front  of Franklin Co. courthouse.  (Virginia.  A huge majority, 21,152, voted to keep it where it is.  But, it is not binding on the Board of Supervisors who will have the final say.)

**  Long at odds with Trump, Defense Secretary  Esper has prepared a letter of resignation.  (But is till pushing to remove Confederate names from Army bases.)

**  2 south Arkansas  counties vote to keep  Confederate monuments.

**  City defers vote on Confederate monument.  (Brunswick, Georgia)

I was wondering how people in the Southern states felt about the monuments.  Now they speak.  So sorry Democrats, liberals, BLMers and white minions.  Of course, this is why they don't want to put it to a vote.

--Old Secesh

Well At Least We Don't Have to Have BLM Rioting, Looting and Burning

With the election of Joe Biden as the next president, the major cities of the United States can breathe a sigh of relief as there will not be any rioting.  They were prepared for it.

If Donald Trump would have won, BLM and their white minions would have been out in the streets and we would have a repeat of what happens so often when BLM commits to "peaceful demonstrations" which turn into, as the media puts it, "civil unrest."  This is actually what most call rioting, looting and burning.

Since Joe Biden won, you will not be seeing Trump supporters out BLMing it as it were.  Congratulations to President-Elect Biden.  The people have spoken.

Hey, Some of Those BLMers Need New Stuff to Sell Since the Last Major Country-Wide Riots Were Back At the End of May.  --Old Secesh

Just As I Hoped, the People Vote No to Statue Removal in Virginia in the Six Counties Where It Was On the Ballot

NOEMBER 3, 2020

**  Mississippi:  Will magnolia replace  old rebel-themed flag.

**  Civil War marker in Jefferson City will be returned to  donors.  (Missouri)

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

**  Voters support keeping  Confederate statue where it is.  (Lunenburg County, Virginia.   The vote was 4,149 (71.19%) to 1,683  (28.1%)  It is not binding however.  But majority of the Board of Supervisors say they will honor the people's vote.

**  Mississippi voters decide to replace  Confederate-themed state flag.

**  Update:  Charles City votes no to advisory on moving  Confederate statue.  (Virginia.  More than 55% voted not to remove the statue.  It was one of six Virginia counties holding votes on the issue.  It appears at this time that all six voted to keep the statues where they are.  Maybe there is some hope for Virginia, but they will absolutely have to get rid of their elected folks.

Maybe There Is Some Hope for the Old Dominion After All.  --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Mississippi, Florida, New York and North Carolina

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

**  Mississippi Board says town can move Confederate statue.  (Columbus)

**  Not all Confederate images gone from SEC states.

**  Pensacola Confederate monument  likely won't be reassembled in one place.  (Florida)

**  Upstate NY town finally votes against racism, but won't ban Confederate flag.  (Tupper Lake, New York)

**  The Confederacy is Dead.

**  Did Graham law enforcement tip off neo-Confederates.  (North Carolina.  A very biased account.  Anytime you see the word neo-Confederate used, you know which side the writer is on.)

--Old Secesh

And, Unlike BLM, I Will Abide By What the People Vote

The sad thing about the people voting in the few places where it happened Tuesday, is that if BLM lose, and the people vote to let the statues remain, they will continue committing hate crimes on the monuments and demanding their removal until they can get some of the spineless politicians to do their dirty work.

On the other hand, I am fully willing to abide by the vote.  If the people vote to remove them, then remove them.  And that will be that.

However, the monuments must be removed to a museum, cemetery or some other site deemed acceptable to either the SCV or UDC.

--Old Secesh

Confederadication or Voting?

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

**  Trump, Biden to share ballot with magic mushrooms, sex education and the Confederate flag.

**  Mississippi Board says county can remove Confederate statue.  (Lowndes County)

**  Alabama county plans fence to protect Confederate monument.  (Marshall County, near Birmingham.)

**  Election 2020:  Future of confederate monument at Halifax courthouse a local standout at Tuesday's presidential election..  (Come on Gazette-Virginian.  You must know that Confederate is a proper name.)

**  City set to vote on monument's future.  (Brunswick)

--Old Secesh

It Sure Will Be Interesting to Find Out How the Confederate Monument Removal Voting Went

Well, at least those horrible mud-slinging hate politician commercials are over as of yesterday.

But, I look forward to seeing how the voting went yesterday on the referendums involving the Confederate monuments.

It is my thought, that in most cases, the people will say to keep those statues where they are.

Of course, those in BLM and their white minions don't want people to vote as they are afraid they will lose.  They'd rather go after politicians who are usually too afraid to stand up to BLM bullying.

But, we will see.  Maybe I am wrong.

Let's See....  --Old Secesh

Six Virginia Counties Voting on Confederate Monuments. This Is the Way That The Question Should Be Settled

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

**  Franklin among six Virginia counties holding Confederate monument referendums.  (This is the way all questions about Confederate monuments should be settled.

**  Your View:  Relocate Confederate monument.

**  VMI to remove  statue of Confederate Stonewall Jackson.  (Virginia Military Institute.  And this one really hurts. )

**  Police pepper spray  antiracism demonstrators in front of Confederate monument in Graham.  (North Carolina)

**  Arrests made in Graham during anti-racism protest  outside Confederate monument.  (North Carolina)

**  Police use pepper spray on crowd who blocked roadway during March  to the polls in Alamance.  (Alamance County, N.C.)

**  Mississippi Board says  county can move Confederate statue.

**  Analysis:  Mississippi voters will say yes or no to new flag.

--Old Secesh

A Deeply Troubling Election, Cities Preparing for BLM Riots and Looting

It was with much consternation that I saw news clips over this past weekend about Chicago's preparations for tomorrow's election.  It is going to be all forces out to prevent anticipated rioting depending upon the election's outcome.

It is a sad day that this country has come to this.

And, we know who will be doing the burning, looting and rioting.  They have already done it twice in Chicago since he end of May.  

Rest assured, if Joe Biden wins, Trump supporters will not be out in the streets rioting.  But, if Donald Trump wins, you can bet that BLM and their white minions will be doing their usual thing.  And that is burning, looting and rioting.

Media will be out in force on those streets.  Always makes for good ratings.

Attention BLMers.  Bridges Up in Chicago, Don't Loot.   --Old Secesh

Removal of Confederate Statues at Gettysburg Would Be a Mistake. VMI, Alabama, Voting on Removal and Memphis

OCTOBER 31, 2020

**  VMI to relocate Confederate statue.  (Lexington, Virginia Military Institute.  A very sad day when this venerable institution no longer wants to be connected to a man who essentially is VMI, Stonewall Jackson.)

**  Marshall County to spend $3,000 to protect Confederate monument, flag.  (Albertville, Alabama  This money should come from BLM, even though the fences are going up because of BLM activity.)

**  Alabama County plans fence  to protect Confederate monument.  (Albertville, Alabama.)

**  General election results for moving Confederate symbols in Franklin and Halifax counties on Nov. 3, 2020.  (North Carolina.  It will certainly be interesting to see how voting of statue removals shows tomorrow.  My thought is that most of the votes will go toward keeping the monuments, but, we will see.)

**  The 901:  What's next for Memphis parks now that Confederate statues are gone?  (Tennessee)

**  Monumental  issues:  Gettysburg's Confederate monuments tie into today's racial reckoning.  (Some want them removed (guess who?).  That would be a huge mistake.  Hopefully the NPS won't give into the Democrats and BLMers and their white minions.)

**  Exploring the history and  and significance  of Confederate statues on Stronger Together.

--Old Secesh

While Banning Hate Symbols, Schools Should Include BLM Symbols

OCTOBER 30, 2020

**  Conspicuous Confederate flag on I-95 in Stafford County removed.  (Virginia.  Eminent domain.)

**  VMI to remove statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson.  (Virginia.  Very sad day.)

**  Clarksville to consider $3400 settlement in complaint over temporary removal of Confederate sign.  (Tennessee)

**  Charges filed  following incident at Confederate flag and monument sit-in.  (Alabama)

**  Confederate flag, swastikas,, other hate symbols banned from school property.  Howard County, Maryland.  Hopefully they also banned anything kind of BLM logo since those mean rioting, looting, arson and hate crimes.  They are REAL symbols of hate.)

--Old Secesh

Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky

OCTOBER 28, 2020

**  Removal of Confederate monument may force Clarksville to  seek legal settlement. (Tennessee)

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

**  Fairfax supervisors move forward with removal of Confederate imagery.  (Virginia)

**  Confederate flag removal protests move to Marshall County commissioner's neighborhood.  (Alabama)

**  Hattiesburg's Confederate monument:  It's time -- Part IV:  decision time on the monument.  (Mississippi.  At least the people have the opportunity to vote and whether it stays or goes.  Which is how it should be.)

**  Confederate flag on I-95 in Stafford to be removed.  (Virginia)

**  Organization claims ownership of Daviess Co.  Confederate monument. (Kentucky. UDC.)

--Old Secesh

Jayhawks, That Lee Statue in Sad R., Alabama, Pennsylvania and North Carolina

OCTOBER 27, 2020

**  Fort Bend, Richmond agree to remove Jaybird statue honoring white supremacists from spot near City Hall.  (Texas)

**  Judge sides with Virginia, but Lee statue stays put for now.  (Sad R.  I sure hope they hurry up and take that statue down.  What the city allowed BLMers and their white minions to do to that statue is a crime.)

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

**  Community members,  pastors, ask Albertville City Council to remove Confederate monument.  (Alabama)

**  Confederate flag case:  Salvagno to pay restitution for painting over images.  (Hancock, Pennsylvania.  Salvagno is the town's mayor.  He has a fine and will do community service.  Very mayor-like.)

**  Madison County Commission chairman explains process and decision  to move Confederate monument.  (Hunstville, Alabama)

**  Halifax voters split on referendum to move Confederate  monument.  (North Carolina.  But at least they get to vote on it.)

**  Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee will stay put in Richmond, Virginia until lawsuit resolved.  (Sad R.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication Continues: Pensacola, Confederate Flags, Cemeteries, School Names and Voting

OCTOBER 27, 2020

**  Florida city begins removal of Confederate monument on Monday.  (Pensacola)

**  Confederate flag no longer welcome in historic Oregon cemeteries.

**  Denver high school drops Confederate monument in favor of bird.  (Denver South High School.  Were the Rebels, now the Ravens.)

**  Citizens talk about Confederate flag  at courthouse.  (Marshall County)

**  Future of Confederate statue in Tazewell County on November ballot.   (Virginia.  And this is the way all statue removal should be handled.  Let the people, not politicians or BLM decide.)

**  Fate of Franklin Co. Confederate statue to come down to final say of Board of Supervisors.  (Virginia. Exactly the WRONG Way to decide on statue removal.)

**  Leon County seeks to remove Confederate monument.    (Florida)

**  Monuments as mobilization?  The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the memorialization of the Lost Cause.

--Old Secesh

Michigan, Voting on Removal, St. Augustine and Washington & Lee University

OCTOBER 26, 2020

**  Protesters call for Confederate statue to be removed during Allendale Freedom March.  (Allendale, Michigan.  It is of a Confederate and a Union soldier standing back-to-back with a slave child at their feet.)

**  Six different ways to ask the Confederate statue question.  (Halifax, North Carolina.  Six different Virginia towns or counties will be voting on removal Nov. 3.  Takes a look at the wording of the questions.  And, the wording can be confusing.  Of course, it really doesn't matter, because if the vote goes to keep the monument, BLM will still protest and commit hate crimes against them.)

**  Protesters call for Mark Bailey's resignation outside of Flagler College.  (St. Augustine, Florida.  His crime?  He didn't want the Confederate statue removed.  Horrible.  Just horrible.  You need to know when you get on the "right" side.)

**  W&L survey about name change gets 14,000-plus responses.  (Washington & Lee University.  Lexington, Virginia.  Trying decide whether to remove Lee's name from the school.  Sadly, the article didn't mention how the voting went.

I Hope They Don't Change the Name.  Lee Was An Honorable Man.  --Old Secesh

Is Kansas City Going the Way of Sad R.?

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My question is this.  Has that Virginia water that has so adversely affected Sad R., now in Kansas City, Missouri?

From the January 25, 2020, Kansas City (Mo.) Star "Confederate monument looms over black neighborhood in Kansas City.  It's here to stay" by Eric Adler.

The article on the Confederate monument in the Forest Hill & Cavalry Cemetery.

But, it starts off with things that have been done in the Kansas City area that would be considered anti Confederate and history.  Some of them:

**  Deemed a racist,  developer J.C. Nichols' name only months ago was stripped  from the fountain on the Country Club Plaza he built.

**  Because he was a slaver responsible for the deaths of thousands of American Indians, Andrew Jackson's statues may soon be razed  from in front of courthouses in the county that bears his name, if voters agree next week.

**  As Kansas City area officials  seek ways to publicly recognize and, in some ways, make amends for the city's racist history,  a plan to change some Kansas City street names is underway.

What next?

Possibly changing the name of the county.

Making the President Truman complex move out of Independence because he authorized dropping the atom bombs.

Beginning to sound a lot like Sad R.

--Old Secesh