The Second Civil War: Statues, Statues, Statues, a School and a Band

February 15, 2020

**  Costello:  The Confederate war memorial--Let it be.  (Loudon County, Va.  The Democratic-controlled board of supervisors, headed by Phylis J. Randall, a black woman, wants to remove the monument.)

**  Confederate statues in the State Capitol remain unaddressed.  (Richmond, Va. Free Press, a black newspaper.--  There are Confederate statues and busts inside it and outside of it.  Needless to say, they want them all gone.  Of course, once the bill is signed, they will be taken down.)

**  Wiley statue in Richmond bridges both Confederate and black urban styles.  (They can put up their statues and take down ours.)

**  Richmond dedicates Barack Obama Elementary School, formerly named for Confederate commander.  (J.E.B. Stuart--  I support renaming any school named after a Confederate serving primarily black students.)

**  County ups the ante in search for art to replace controversial Confederate statue.  (Gainesville, Florida--  This will cost the county $40,000.  Cost to have kept the Confederate statue would have been $0.)

**  Birmingham's mayor criticizes law protecting Confederate monuments, says one should not exist in America's fourth blackest city.  (Big surprise, the mayor is a black man.  Who's racist now?

By the way, this article in Newsweek was accompanied by a 45 second video of the UNC students committing the hate crime against the Silent Sam statue.  They seemed really happy at the time, but not so happy when the bill came.

**  Night Ranger and Confederate Railroad play Marathon tomorrow.  (Marathon in the Florida Keys.  Old Toilets can't do anything about it as it is out of his jurisdiction.)

--Old Secesh