Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Forrest and Arkansas

AUGUST 3, 2020


**  'We always knew what it stood for':  Small Texas town torn over its Confederate statue.  (Marshall, Texas.)

**  Greenville protests over downtown Confederate monument leads to vitriol, arrests.  (Greenville, S.C.  It did get tense.  At least BLM had not desecrated the statue with its usual stuff.  Score a point to them.)

**  Decision on Gaston County Court House Confederate monument to be made Monday.  (North Carolina.  A vote will be taken at the courthouse.  The SCV fears vandalism to it (hate crime) and if vote is to remove it, want a safe place.  But, I also think those people who want it gone should pay for it.  I am happy to say that looking at the statue, it does not appear that BLM has done their usual thing to it.  Score another point for them.)

**  Opinion:  Face history of Confederate monuments  and start dismantling systemic racism.

**  Confederate monuments:  Nathan Bedford Forrest, the general involved in the Fort Pillow massacre.

**  Confederate monument draws protesters, counter-protesters to state capitol.  (Little Rock, Arkansas.  No violence but there were heavily-armed people on both sides.  Now, that is very scary.  Tempers flare and shooting is a definite possibility.)

Thanks for Not "Vandalizing" Those Monuments, BLM.  --Old Secesh