No Confederate Flags Also Means No BLM Ones. South Carolina, Sad A., Graham Again, Stone Mountain Carving to Stay

MAY 24, 2021

**  SC's Heritage Act prohibiting  Confederate monuments  faces crucial  test in SC Supreme Court.

**  Ask Rufus:  The Confederate monument.

**  Vance monument:  Appeals court denies emergency  stop for demolition of Confederate marker.  (Sad A.)

**  Sound of judgement:    In a small North Carolina town, a battle  for racial justice  confronts bloody past and uncertain future.  (Graham, North Carolina)

**  A teacher hangs a BLM flag at a school named for a Confederate general.  Now she's under investigation.  (Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida.  If Confederate flags are not allowed, neither should anything BLM.  It's only fair.)

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MAY 25, 2021

**  Giant Confederate monument will remain at revamped Stone Mountain.  (Glad to hear that.)

**  Relocation of Confederate monument begins in Mississippi.    (Lowndes County)

--Old Secesh

Defense Department Visits West Point, The Mayor Speaks, Confederate Is a Proper Name and Needs to Be Capitalized

MAY 22, 2021

**  Defense Department commission  plans initial visits to  10 military sites with Confederate  names.

**  Commission reviewing  military base names to visit West Point  next week.  (Looking at any and everything Confederate-connected.)

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MAY 23, 2021

**  I needed to lead my city, but I needed to apologize first.  (Sad R. mayor.  He's a major reason why it's Sad R.)

**  Local confederate monument (Confederate) is relocated  from courthouse.  (Columbus, Mississippi.  Come on WCBI, Confederate is a proper name.)

**  Just rename the bases  honoring Confederates already.

**  Funding approved for changes to Jackson County's confederate (Confederate) monument.  (Come on Southern Scoop, Confederate is a proper name.)

**  Monument decision  maintains 'status quo.'  (North Carolina)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Sad R., Military Bases, Stone Mountain, Sad A., Alabama

MAY 22, 2021

**  Final remnants of Confederate monuments in Richmond could be gone this summer.  (Sad R.  Again, they can't be gone fast enough for me.  I wish they were already completely gone and then the rewriting of history books could begin and erase the name Sad R. from Civil War history.  It just didn't happen.  And someone please hurry up an take that Lee statue down.  What the city and its BLMers have done is a complete disgrace to them.  Price tag for removals so far stands at $232,000.)

**  Military takes steps in bid to replace Confederate base names.

**  Stone Mountain  Confederate  carving, flag proposals  set for vote.

**  Parts of Asheville's Vance monument  removed; demolition continues on Confederate statue.  (Sad A.  Now on my list of no-go cities.)

**  Move to promote Black history using Confederate tax fails.  (Alabama)

--Old Secesh

Sylva Sam, Alamance County, Virginia, Fort Belvoir and USS Antietam and Renaming Forts

MAY 21, 2021

**  Changes to Sylva Sam Confederate statue approved, mixed reactions.  (Jackson County, NC.  There will be bronze plaques covering some parts.  Cost $13,000)

**  Dueling protests come to  Alamance County over  Confederate monument.  (Graham, North Carolina.)

**  Council makes move to relocate Confederate statue.  (Farmville, Virginia.)

**  Fort Belvoir, cruiser Antietam  under consideration  for renaming by the DoD commission.  (These are not on the original list.  Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is named after a plantation. The cruiser USS Antietam is named after a Civil War battle.  But, didn't the Union win that one?)

**  Commissions says no decisions  made yet in renaming Army bases that honor Confederate  generals.

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MAY 22, 2021

**  Removal of Confederate names  could affect hundreds of sites.  (Removal on all things military.)

**  Confederate memorial highlights deep-seated  divisions in Alamance County.  (North Carolina.  That Graham statue again.)

--Old Secesh

 

Confederadication: Graham, Owensboro, Fort Smith, the Tyrant, Arkansas and A.P. Hill

MAY 20, 2021

**  Dubious arrests, death threats and Confederate loyalists:  Welcome to Graham, NC.

**  Confederate statue ownership case goes in front of Daviess Co. judge.  (Owensboro, Kentucky)

**  Confederate markers' removal draws threat of lawsuit.  (Fort Smith, Arkansas)

**  Maryland repeals state song that called Lincoln a 'Tyrant.'

**  Effort to restore Confederate markers in Little Rock  is legal lost cause, city attorney indicates.  (Arkansas)

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MAY 21, 2021

**  Plans move ahead to remove Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill monument and tomb.  (Sad R.   Expected cost $34,000.  This should be paid for by those who want it gone.)

**  Attorneys  make arguments in Confederate statue case.  (Owensboro, Kentucky)

--Old Secesh

Why Not Rename Fort Bragg After the Union General Bragg, Not the Confederate One? A Surprise Vote on School Names in Jacksonville

MAY 20, 2021

**  King George Confederate monument will be discussed in June.  (Virginia)

**  Wisconsin senator proposes renaming  Fort Bragg after  Union cousin of Confederate general.  (A state senator wants it named after Braxton Bragg's  cousin, Union General  Edward Stuyvesant  Bragg of Wisconsin.  Good idea.  That way they wouldn't have to go through all that expense of changing the name.  I had never heard of this Union general and will have to do some more research.)

**  Duval  County school stakeholders vote to rename  5 schools named for Confederate leaders.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  I bet everyone of them will be named after black folks.  Well, that was my thought at first, but looking at the new names, they definitely aren't:

Joseph Finnegan Elementary to Anchor Academy

Stonewall Jackson Elementary to  Westside Academy

Jefferson Davis Middle School to Westside Middle School

J.E.B. Middle School to  Westside Middle School (However these last two are the same name.)

Robert E. Lee High School to Riverside High School

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Voters chose to keep the names of three schools:

Jean Ribault Middle School

Jean Ribault High School

Andrew Jackson High School

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The last time a school name was changed in Jacksonville it cost $180,000.

--Old Secesh

Goodbye 'Maryland, My Maryland.' Welcome 'We Is Woke, We Is Woke'

MAY 19, 2021

**  Alabama police issue arrest warrant over stolen Confederate monument.  (That chair again.)

**  Community activists urge Florence City Council members to move Confederate monument.  (Alabama.  Well, at least they are urging and not demanding.  Again, how do you get to be a community activist?)

**  Anti-Confederate protesters march at SMPA.  (Sand Mountain, Alabama)

**  Maryland's racist, pro-Confederate  state song has been repealed.  ("Maryland, My Maryland" is out.  Might I recommend "We Is Woke, Oh We Is Woke" as a replacement.  And, it goes to the same tune.)

**  From Charleston to Minneapolis, America grapples with symbols of slave-owning past.

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MAY 20, 2021

**  Complaint heard over Confederate statue in Daviess County on Wednesday.  (Owensboro, Kentucky)

**  Organizers sound off  ahead of Thursday's Confederate protest/counterprotest.  (Alamance County, North Carolina.)

--Old Secesh

SPLC's Billboards, Confederate Is a Proper NAME!! Streets, Arrest Warrant and Talbot Boys

MAY 18, 2021

**  Southern Poverty Law Center targets Alamance community in  anti-monument  billboard campaign.  (North Carolina.   SPLC, what can I say?)

**  Hearing scheduled for Owensboro confederate (Confederate) monument.  (Kentucky.  Looks like WEHT would know that Confederate is a proper name and should be capitalized.  Just saying.)

**  Letter to editor:  Remove all Confederate street names in city.

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MAY 19, 2021

**  Arrest warrant issued  for man in Confederate monument theft.  (That Confederate chair monument again.)

** Virtual Talbot Boys  event looks at  history surrounding Confederate  memorial.  (Maryland)

**  What's your take on Confederate flags in the classroom?  (Continued)  (Colorado)

**  'That monument serves no good purpose':  New billboard urges removal of Confederate monument.  (Alamance County, North Carolina)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Goodbye Vance. Statues, Jasmine With a Bad Name. Way to Go Rev. Rob. SPLC Speaks

MAY 17, 2021

**  Vance Monument's last days:  Demolition for removal starts today.  (Sad A., North Carolina.  And, they are not going to move it.  Just tear it down.  It stood for 120 years and they just now figured out they didn't like it?  Wonder of I can drive I-40 through that part of N.C. and not have to drive through that sad Asheville place?)

**  Letters:   Why Confederate statue must go; Columnist peddling racist lie.  (Baltimore, Md.)

**  Care guide for Confederate jasmine.  (Reckon they'll have to change the name.)

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MAY 18, 2021

**  Washington Post fact checker says  Rev.  Ron Lee is not related to Confederate general.  (The Rev. Rob Lee has been outspoken in wanting Lee gone.  Thank goodness he is not related.  But should a man of the cloth say things that are not true?  Isn't there something in the Bible about that?)

**  Changing the name and narrative:  Students lead  movement to rename schools honoring Confederates.  (This from the vaunted folks at SPLC.  And it took George Floyd for those students to realize their schools were named after you-know whats?)

--Old Secesh

No More Washington and Lee University? Hey, It's Va. What Would You Expect?

MAY 17, 2021

**  Complaint to be heard over Confederate statue in Daviess County on Wednesday.  (Owensboro, Kentucky)

**  Letters:  My Confederate  ancestor fought on the wrong side of history.

**  Removal of Asheville  Confederate  monument set to commence.  (Sad A, North Carolina.  This forsaken city is going to demolish the Governor Vance monument that was put up in 1897.  Why did it take some people so long to be offended?  And, I had plans to visit Biltmore.  Guess not now.)

**  Police record 'hate-related public order offence' against  couple for flying American Confederate flag in their back garden in Norwich.  (United Kingdom.  In other words, the couple flying the flag were being bad people.  Has it really come to this?)

**  No country for old things?  (About the Sad R. Confederate statues.)

**  What's in a name?  (In June, Washington & Lee University in Virginia will announce whether they will change their name.  In other words, drop the Lee.  Lee was a big reason the school survived after the war.  He is buried on the campus.  They could change its name to Woke University or Cancel Culture University.  So sad.   But, hey, it's Virginia.  What else could you expect from that state?  Of course, something will have to be done about that horrible Washington guy because, you know, he owned you-know-whats.)

Sad V.  Sad V.  --Old Secesh

Civil War II: Asheville, Florida, United Kingdom, Lee Relative? North Carolina

MAY 16, 2021

**  McGoun:  Zebulon Vance and Sylva Sam,  a tale of two monuments.  (Asheville, NC.  This town plans to destroy its Vance monument.  Sad A.)

**  Guest column:  Where's the honor  in the Confederacy?  (Florida Times-Union)

**  Police action over 'slavery flag' flying in Norwich garden.  (United Kingdom)

**  Man related to Robert E. Lee has no evidence.  (That he is related to Lee.  He is calling for removal of all Confederate statues.)

**  Letter:  Statue represents inequality and should be removed.  (Burlington, NC.)

--Old Secesh

SPLC's Billboards. Giant Confederate Flag? Baltimore, United Kingdom and Joe

MAY 15, 2021

**  Losing the 'Lost Cause':  SPLC launches  billboard campaign to educate  communities on false narrative behind Confederate History Month.  (Could you expect less from them?  Still waiting for your LIST on BLM demonstrations that became riots last year from these guys.  Beginning to think that's not going to happen.)

**  A man accused  of storming the Capitol with a giant Confederate flag will get to go on a family road trip while awaiting trial.  (That was a 3 x 5 foot flag.  Hardly giant flag.  He is out on bail.)

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MAY 16, 2021

**  Friends of Wyman Park Dell working to replace confederate (Confederate)  statue.    (Baltimore, Md.  Looks like Fox 5 News would know that Confederate is a proper name and should be capitalized.)

** Why teacher was right to report Confederate flag to police.  (United Kingdom.  Come on.  There Too??)

**  Joe Biden revokes executive orders Trump signed  while he was defending Confederate monuments.

--Old Secesh

$290,000 to Replace Confederate Flag on Pensacola Police Badges. Come On BLM and SPLC, Put Your Money Where Your Mouths Are

MAY 15, 2021

**  Confederate flag to come off Pensacola police uniforms, council to wait on  approving funds.  (Florida.  "Don't surprise me none."  It will cost $290,000 which seems to be way too much.  However, that cost should be borne by those folks wanting it gone, not public funds.  Come on, GUYs, PUT your MONEY where your mouths are.

While looking up the Pensacola police badges I saw that formerly the Confederate flag shown was the so-called battle flag.  Now it is the First National flag.)

**  US park  celebrating pro-slavery Confederacy faces a reckoning.  (That would be Stone Mountain, Georgia.)

**  Activists march in Sand Mountain Park protesting Albertville Confederate flag.  (Alabama.  Looked like about eight people there in the news clip.  How do you get to be an activist anyway?)

**  Mississippi city says  state law required  Confederate signs to be put back up.  (Picayune, Ms. SCV logo and Confederate unit markers put back up.)

**  Letter to the Editor:   Rid State Capitol of Confederate tributes.    (Texas)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Movies, Sad R., Pensacola Police, Kentucky and Illinois

MAY 13, 2021

**  Barry Jenkins used the magic of filmmaking to blow up a Confederate monument. (In the film "Underground Railroad."  No doubt certain folks can't keep from smiling.)

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MAY 14, 2021

**  City doesn't own Confederate monument at South Richmond court house.  (Sad R.)

**  City Council to vote on removing Confederate flag from Pensacola Police uniforms.  (Florida.  Wonder how the vote will go.  Had any city council down South voted against removing something Confederate?)

**  Pensacola  City Council postpones decision to remove confederate (Confederate) images from PPD.  (That was fast.  Looks like WEAR 3 ABC would know Confederate is a proper name and needs to be capitalized.)

**  County denies  group owns Confederate statue in response to lawsuit.  (Daviess County, Owensboro, Kentucky)

**  Yorkville High School students disciplined after hate symbols displayed on school grounds.  (Illinois)

--Old Secesh

Oh, NO!! Even 'Animal House' Now? What Will They Go After Next?

MAY 13, 2021

**  Montana landmarks named for Confederate leader questioned.  (Places named for Jefferson Davis.  Jeff Davis Peak,  Jeff Davis Gulch and Jeff Davis Creek.  Not sure what Davis had to do with Montana?)

**  Our view:  Confederate  Heritage Month a relic of the past.  (Mississippi)

**  Confederate signs placed back on city property.

**  Should Baton Rouge drop Confederate street names?  New committee  will study it.  (Louisiana)

**  County denies  group owns Confederate  statue  in response to lawsuit.  (Kentucky)

**  South Carolina  closed government  offices in honor of 'Confederate Memorial Day'.

**  John Landis discusses  use of Confederate flag in controversial Animal House scene.  (Don't even think about what Pinto and the 13-year-old girl were about to do.  That horrible, horrible, horrible flag, you know.  Well, there was obviously a U.S. flag there as well.  What about that one?  Landis said the reason the flag was there was because they were using an actual fraternity room for the scene and it was already there.  Nobody ever expected it being there would be an issue.)

Going after my all-time FAVORITE MOVIE!!!  This means WAR!!!

What Would Bluto Say.  --Old XSecesh

Removing Confederate Flag from Pensacola Police Badges Should be Paid For by Those Wanting Them Gone

MAY 11, 2021

**  What's your take on  ... Confederate flags in the classroom?  (Acceptable if you are doing a unit on U.S. flags or the Civil War or if you are studying current events.)

**  Removing Confederate flag from Pensacola police badges will cost  $290,000.  (Florida.  Well, if you ask me, that is way too much.  But, regardless of the cost, those who want it removed should pay for it themselves.  Come on, folks, PUT your money where YOUR mouth is!!!  And the flag isn't even the really offensive one to so many.)

**  Judge rules that woman must  choose  her Confederate flag or biracial child.  (Albany, New York.  Hey, biracial means she had the child with a black man.  How racist is that?  It's about that rock, you know.)

**  Richmond City Council continuing confederate (Confederate) monument discussion  Monday.  (One would seriously think that ABC 8 News might know that Confederate is a proper name and should be capitalized.  You'd think, wouldn't you?)

MAY 12, 2021

**  Former BRC member s call on city council to immediately cover  Confederate statues ahead of removal.  (Charlottesville, Va.  Yes, Sad C.)

**  Northampton supervisor wants Confederate statue removed.  (Virginia.  He is a white man.)

--Old Secesh

Colleges Should Drop the Word Virginia from Their Names in That State Because .... Books, Confederate Memorial Day, Virginia and Montana

MAY 10, 2021

**  "The War on Nostalgia."  A new anti-Confederate book by Clint Smith about the Myth of the Lost Cause."

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MAY 11, 2021

**  Joe Cunningham calls to end Confederate Memorial Day, make Election Day a state holiday.  (South Carolina.  A democrat running for governor.  Big Surprise!)

**  Isle of Wight removes 116-year-old Confederate monument.  (Virginia.  Always wonder why , if it stood for something that bad, it wasn't removed sometime before "Woke" and "Cancel Culture"?  Inquiring minds want to know.)

**  Virginia universities reckon with Confederate symbols.  (Here something else they can do.  If they were established before the Civil War, they need to close down because of the shame of slavery.  Since the name Virginia was given while slavery was still in existence, the name Virginia must be removed from its name.  It will now be The University in Charlottesville and Commonwealth University in Sad R.)

**  MT groups call for landmarks named after president of the Confederacy to be changed.  (Montana)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Virginia, Louisiana, Maryland and South Carolina

MAY 9, 2021

**  Confederate monument in Isle of Wight moved.  (Virginia)

**  Confederate signs removed from the city.  (Picayune, Louisiana.  At least one was a historical marker.)

**  Talbot Boys defenders fault federal lawsuit, says it will hurt county.  (Maryland)

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MAY 10, 2021

**  Confederate flags put in place then removed where Confederate monument was in Isle of Wight County.  (Virginia.  Those horrible, horrible flags, you know.)

By the way.  This Confederate monument was removed to private property and the citizens of the county paid the $32,000 to do it.  I still say those who want it removed should pay all expenses to do it.)

**  South Carolina to observe Confederate Memorial Day.  (You reckon some folks are going to be up in arms about that?)

--Old Secesh

Democrats At It Again. Justice Gone Awry? Billboards, Delaware Man, Kentucky and North Carolina

MAY 8, 2021

**  Get rid of Confederate rock or risk custody of multiracial daughter, court tells woman.  (New York.  The judicial system's gone awry.)

**  Billboard campaign prods cities  to remove Confederate monuments.

**  Democrats revive bill to remove Capitol busts of  Dredd Scott author, Confederates and more.  (Washington, D.C.   Chief Justice Roger Taney of Dred Scott Decision, Vice president John C. Calhoun.  Ah yes, the Democratic Party, the Party of the KKK.  What party was responsible for the ending of slavery?)

**  Plea may be coming from Delaware man who carried Confederate flag through  Capitol.

**  KAco to take over representation for county in Confederate statue lawsuit.  (The Kentucky Association of Counties.   Dabies County, Ky.)

**  Confederate monument's  future could be determined in June.  (Laurinburg County, N.C.)

--Old Secesh

Why Are Some Media Outlets and Courts So Racist? Sad R., Tampa Bay, Montgomery, Schools, Judicial Question and Maryland

MAY 7, 2021

**  Overlooked:  Confederate marker on South Richmond courthouse lawn.  (Richmond Free Press, a notoriously anti-anything Confederate publication.  Obviously, they want it gone.)

**  Editorial:  Quit using  Florida law to celebrate Confederate traitors.  (Tampa Bay Times)

**  Input sought on Confederate name changes in Montgomery schools.  (Alabama.  Please don't just name them all after Blacks.)

**  Court orders upstate  woman to remove Confederate flag or risk custody of child.  (Thompkins County, New York.  Must remove a rock with Confederate flag on it or might lose custody of her multi-racial daughter.  The judicial system overstepping its boundaries.)

**  Lawsuit seeks Confederate statue removal from Talbot County court house.  (Maryland.  NAACP, what a big surprise.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Lee Descendant, Sad VMI, United Airlines, Florida Confederate Monument Hit List, No Traitors Here

MAY 6, 2021

**  Robert E. Lee descendant joins legal fight to remove Confederate statue from NC site.  (Turncoat)

**  VMI board votes to remove  Confederate general's name  from arch, hall.  (Virginia Military Institute.  Jackson Memorial Hall and arch.  So sad.)

**  United, ex-worker end suit over  Confederate flag postings.  (United Airlines)

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MAY 7, 2021

**  Where Confederate monuments remain across Florida.  (Yahoo News using SPLC research.  Map of Florida counties showing where they still stand and where they have been removed.  Sounds like more of a "Hit List" to me.  You thing SPLC wants them removed?)

**  As US rebrands  bases named after Confederates, what other nation  would have honoured  traitors?

--Old Secesh

Jacksonville, North Carolina, Missouri, Georgia, Colorado and Mississippi

MAY 5, 2021

**  Group asks why Jacksonville never followed through with removing on removing Confederate statues.  (Florida)

**  Group files lawsuit to remove Confederate monument from Iredell County Government Center.  (North Carolina)

**  Liberty  city officials  start process to take control of cemetery land with Confederate  monument.  (Missouri.  I thought BLM just wanted statues on public land removed.)

**  Ex-governor:  Replace  capitol Confederate statue.  (Georgia.  Replace Gordon statue with Longstreet.  But, both are Confederates.)

**  Petition seeks to ban Confederate flag at Academy  School District 20.  (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

**  Washington County taking  legal action to remove still standing  Confederate statue.  (Mississippi)

**  How did Fort Hood get its name and why is there a push to change it?

--Old Secesh

Then Came 'Woke' and 'Cancel Culture'. Missouri, The Great Jacksonville 1901 Fire, A Ruined Boating Expedition, Sad Char.

MAY 4, 2021

**  Liberty officials take action in debate over Confederate monument,  searching for owner.  (Liberty, Missouri.  It's in a cemetery, not a public space.  Leave it.)

**  120 years later:  Confederate  monument's role  in the Great Fire of 1901 contrasts today.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  Took place Friday, May 3, 1901.  Nearly 150 blocks burned down.  Confederate statue in James Wheldon Park remained standing.  Third largest urban fire after the Great Chicago Fire of and the 1906 San Francisco fire.   But, then came "Woke" and "Cancel Culture.")

**  Letter to Editor:   Confederate flags, yard ornament mar perfect outing.  (Albany, Georgia.  Paddling on a creek and saw at least seven Confederate flags on docks and "a black caricature yard ornament."  Kind of like me when I see anything with BLN on it.)

**  Public tells Charlottesville to remove  Confederate statues ASAP.  (Virginia.  Sad Charlottesville.)

**  Richmond residents comment on future of city-owned confederate (Confederate) monuments at Monday meeting.  (Sad R. Come on 8 News.  PROPER NAME!!!)

**  Former Charlottesville  BRC members call for Confederate statues to be covered while pending possible removal.  (Virginia)

**  Sons of Confederate Veterans file suit to stop Waycross monument removal.  (Georgia)

--Old Secesh

Changing School's Name, Even Religion? Those Pesky Confederate Monuments and Names and Confederate Money

MAY 2, 2021

**  Wheeler HS students continue  fight to change Confederate  school name.  (Florida)

**  'Not erasing his memory':  Church dropping name of slaveholding bishop of Tennessee.

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MAY 3, 2021

**  Other editors:  Replace Confederate  monuments with ones honoring freedom.

**  Letter:  To avoid a ruckus, avoid naming  sites for people.  (You'll never know when public opinion's goin to change.)

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MAY 4, 2021

**  What happened to Confederate money after the Civil War.  (Real Civil War history, not this revisionist stuff.)

Asking the Question Should BLM Be Protesting About Confederate Money?  --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Stone Mountain, Juneteenth, Confederate Heritage Month, Fort Monroe, Alabama and Stonewall

MAY 1, 2021

**  A black pastor's  Confederate  memorial problem.  (Stone Mountain, Ga.  He is the head of the group that runs it.)

**  Organizers offer details on Juneteenth march, rally to remove Talbot Boys Confederate memorial.  (Maryland.  So, at what point will Blacks be asking that the United States celebrate Juneteenth instead of the Fourth of July?)

**  'There is not systemic racism' says a governor who named April as Confederate Heritage Month.  (From the Washington Post.  So, that explains it.)

**  Opinion:  Fort Monroe should be focused on its history, not its name.  (Virginia.  Well, you know, James Monroe, slave owner.)

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MAY 2, 2021

**  Alabama debates removing Confederate flag from its coat of arms. 

**  Washington County commissioners asked  to change name  of Confederate-named road.  (Stonewall Jackson.  Also looks like they might have to change name of county because, well, you know, somebody owned slaves.)

--Old Secesh

What the Substitute Saw. Colorado, Texas, Virginia, CAIR, North Carolina, Georgia and Memphis

APRIL 30, 2021

**  Colorado Springs substitute teacher creates petition to ban Confederate flags from classrooms.  (Colorado.  Subbed in a classroom that had the flag up as part of an educational display.  Wonder why she is a substitute and not a regular teacher.)

**  Denton County Confederate monument to be relocated inside courthouse museum.  (Texas)

**  Petition to remove Confederate  monument near Roanoke College gaining attention.  (Virginia)

**  CAIR  supports effort to remove Confederate flag from Alabama  coat of arms.  (Council on American -Islamic Relations.  How do they stand on Islamic ISIS and Taliban atrocities?)

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MAY 1, 2021

**  Confederate statue will have company.  (Gates County, N.C.  The statue will remain but with new wording.)

**  Cobb students fight to remove Confederate general's from school name.  (Cobb County, Georgia.  Joseph Wheeler High School.)

**  Juneteenth Festival planned  for Memphis park where Confederate general's  remains are buried.  (Nathan Bedford Forrest)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Jacksonville, Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas

APRIL 29, 2021

**  City  commitment to removing  Confederate monuments questioned after advisory committee report released.  (Jacksonville, Florida.)

**  Town panel says Lake  Culpeper should replace  reservoir's Confederate name.  (Virginia.  Reservoir named Lake Pelham after Confederate officer.)

**  Tulane professor tied to pro-Confederate groups.  (Tulane University, Louisiana.  So?  What about all the professors across the country tied to BLM?)

**  Alabama debates removing Confederate battle flag from coat of arms.

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APRIL 30, 2021

**  New lawsuits threatened in  dispute over Confederate monument in Liberty.  (Missouri)

**  Tennessee attorney  in Confederate statue  case has handled similar lawsuits.

**  Confederate  statue remains  in front of City Hall.  (Wichita Falls, Texas)

--Old Secesh

Arkansas, SPLC, Sad R., Virginia, Alabama

APRIL 28, 2021

**  Bill replacing 'Confederate Flag Day' with 'Arkansas Day' fails senate committee.

**  SPLC launches  anti-Confederate billboard campaign in Alabama.  (Do you think they are for or against anything Confederate?)

**  Richmond leaders outline  plan for downed Confederate  statues. (Sad R.)

**  Speakers suggest  moving Confederate statue at courthouse to Veterans Park.  (Washington County, Va.)

**  Hampton to rename five schools named for slave owners, Confederates and Segregationists.  (Virginia)

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APRIL 29, 2021

**  Strange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town.  (Selma)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Charlottesville, Jacksonville Schools, The Alamo? and Good Ol' SPLC

APRIL 27, 2021

**  Community  members hope Charlottesville City Council  acts swiftly on Confederate monument removal.  (Virginia.  You'll never guess what race the community members are who want them gone swiftly.  The council will discuss removal May 3.  Maybe they will decide to keep the monuments.  Yes, sure.)

**  Voting begins on name-change process for Duval County  schools named for Confederate leaders.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  Voting whether or not to change names.  This is the way it should be done.  They are also looking into changing the names of Jean Ribault High School and Middle School.  Ribault was a French Huguenot who established Fort Caroline in Florida by where Jacksonville is today.)

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APRIL 28, 2021

**  Alamo, Confederate  monuments featured prominently in heated House  committee  hearing.  (Texas.  The Alamo?)

**  Confederate monuments:  Debating history in the fight for racial equality.

**  Southern Poverty Law Center launches  anti-Confederate  monument billboard campaign in Florence.  (Alabama.  Hey folks. Still waiting for your LIST of BLM riots and damages done in 2020.)

--Old Secesh

What to Do With Stone Mountain. Confederate Memorial Day and Jacksonville

APRIL 27, 2021

**  Georgia park with giant Confederate  carving proposes changes.  (Stone Mountain, Georgia.   These are some of the proposals:  Publicly acknowledge that the park was a KKK gathering place, relocate Confederate flags and remove the carving from the logo.  These are acceptable to me.  Of course, BLM, SPLC and other groups want the carvings destroyed altogether.  I would absolutely oppose destroying the carvings.)

**  Confederate Memorial Day remains legal holiday in Florida, other Southern states.  (I imagine this might gall some folks.)

**  What's happening to Jacksonville's Confederate  monuments?  Group finalizes proposals.  (Florida.  They are still standing, but the white mayor says they have to go.)

**  Bid to end Arkansas' Confederate Flag Day fails before panel.

**  Committee recommends  city repurpose Jacksonville Confederate monuments rather than remove.  (Florida)

**  Gov. Reeves  said he wanted t promote unity.  Then he declared Confederate Memorial Day.  (Mississippi)

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