Two Politicians With Backbones. Another Cemetery Attacked. Sad Asheville

JULY 27, 2020


**  Lawmaker criticized for honoring Confederate, KKK figure.  (Alabama.  State Representative Will Dismukes Republican.  On his Facebook page attended and spoke at a Nathan Bedford Forrest birthday observance.  I kind of figured that with the headline that this would be about Forrest.  Democrats, of course, mortified.  Even Republicans on his case.  It was okay to honor Forrest for over a hundred years, but not now?)

**  Newly elected Texas GOP  Chairman Allen West  stands up for monuments, opposes mask  mandates.  (And, he was a former Army officer and U.S. Representative.  And, he is a black man who describes himself as a super conservative.  I don't know about his stance on masks, but he is a breath of fresh air in the political arena, along with Will Dismukes.  So great to find politicians who are not dupes of BLM.)

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JULY 28. 2020

**  Activists demand stop to Confederate displays at Charleston battery, criticize enforcement.  (South Carolina.  But they think their BLM displays aren't offensive.  Really?)

**  Confederate section of cemetery damaged.    (Oakland Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Spray painted "Black Lives Matter" and "F*** Trump" on obelisk marking the site where 900 unknown Confederates are buried.)

**  Opinion:  I'm an archaeologist.  I don't worry removing monuments  will erase history.  (Never though I'd hear an archaeologist say something like this.)

**  Vance monument in downtown Asheville shrouded.  (North Carolina.  Asheville the new Richmond, Va.  The new "Sad" town in North Carolina.  I am wondering when they will be changing the city name and county name because they were named after plantation owners.  You know, the "S" Word.)

Cemeteries Next On BLM Attack List.  --Old Secesh