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