Utah's Woke State University. University of the South, the Ex-Slave and Confederate Hero, Pelham Lake, Vandalism or Hate Crime?

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

**  How an ex-slave and a Confederate hero joined forces during the Jim Crow era.  (Quite an interesting story.  Give it a read.)

**  Bill to repeal Alabama law protecting  Confederate monuments  fails to advance.  (Wow!  Did we maybe win one?)

**  Split vote, split views.  Confederate Pelham removed as Culpepper Lake's name.  (Virginia)

**  Gaston County Confederate monument vandalized.  (North Carolina.  Dear old BLM at work again.  I wonder of it would be vandalizing if someone did that to a Martin Luther King Jr. monument?)

**  Did Churchill say "People with contempt for their heritage have lost faith in themselves"?  (Snopes.  He didn't.  These words were on a removed Confederate monument.)

**  Utah House votes for dropping 'Dixie' from university name.  (Dixie State University.  No new name chosen.  The school has already changed nickname from Rebels to Red Storm and removed a Confederate soldier statue.  Many southerners had settled in the area after the Civil War.  Maybe rename the school Gutless State University or Woke State University.)

**  First black president at the University of the South says home has been vandalized, threatening messages left.  (Sewanee, Tennessee.  Is this vandalism or a hate crime.  I'd call it a hate crime.)

--Old Secesh