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