SPLC Calls on Ala. Cities to Remove Confederate Pedestals, I Call on SPLC to Get Blacks to Stop Shooting and Killing Other Blacks

The front end of this headline was from June 26, 2021. The last part is from me.

Personally, I believe a bigger issue with the black community is from all the shootings and killings of each other.  This occurs across the United States and especially in Chicago.  They are shooting and killing each other.  The Confederate monuments are NOT doing this to them.  The Confederate monuments have been standing for a hundred plus years and in that time, have not hurt any Blacks other than the one in Portsmouth, Virginia, who the statue fell on as he was pulling it down.

Just look at these numbers for Chicago:

For this past weekend from Friday noon to Monday 2:30 am:  10 killed, 62 wounded

Last week's total:  19 killed, 91 wounded

For September so far:  76 killed, 368 wounded

For 2021 so far:  601 killed, 2,913 wounded

Now, granted not all of these numbers are Blacks, but they make up a huge percentage of them.

SPLC, those noted anti-Confederate listmakers, has the word law in their name and should be working harder to stop this illegal practice.

Come On SPLC, Get Your Priorities Straight.  --Old Secesh

What's Racist and What's Not. Replacing Confederate Statues with Black Ones Is Rubbing Salt Into the Wound

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

**  As Confederate statues come down, statues of Black heroes go up.  (From the Black Wall Street Times.  Is the media here somewhat racist?  What if there was a White Wall Street Times?  Do You think Blacks would call that racist?  A racist is a racist is a racist, no matter what color they are.

And, replacing Confederate statues with black statues. That's rubbing salt into a still-sore wound.  Mighty racist of them, don't you think?

And, I firmly believe that statues to Blacks should be put up as they have been too long overlooked.  Especially Buffalo Soldiers and Ida B. Wells among many others.  I would have liked for the Confederate ones to have remained and joined by black ones.

Same with Black Caucuses.

--Old Secesh

The Removal of the Lee Statue Makes Lots of Headlines

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

There were a lot of articles about the statue of Robert E. Lee coming down in Sad R.  I mean a whole lot.  Of course, I want to know if they are going to also take the pedestal down as what the city and state allowed BLM and NAACP to do to it was an affront to decency.  

This display goes a long way to explain Sad R's lapse to the Dark Side.

I also don't know why they cut the statue up.  I know the given reason was so it could get through some low overpasses, but I think it goes beyond that.

**  I-35 billboard  calls for Confederate monument removal in Williamson County.  (Texas.  An SPLC thing.  Since when Does SPLC operate in Williamson County?  "Our County?"  Really.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

**  Crew searching for Confederate statue's 1887 time capsule.  (That would be the Lee statue in Sad R.  They also are placing another one for 2021.  This leads me to think they are going to keep that sad pedestal up instead of also removing it because Blacks find former Confederate pedestals offensive.

Of Course, What Gets Me Is How Come It Took Certain People So Long To Realize They Were Offended By That Lee Statue.   --Old Secesh

Civil War II: What Would You Rename Those Confederate Army Bases?

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

**  Pentagon asks public for suggestions of renaming bases that honor Confederates.

**  Naming commission tasked with examining Confederate symbols on military bases.

**  Augusta commission to vote on c(C)onfederate names.  (Georgia.  Come on WJBF!!)

**  Fort Bragg officials to discuss  required name change -- and they want your input.  (I already gave my idea.  Rename it for Edward Bragg. commander of the famed Iron Brigade during the war.  Then there will be very little cost in the renaming process.)

**  What would you rename  the Army posts and Navy ships that honor the Confederacy?

**  Alabama trying to revive lawsuit over Confederate monument.

--Old Secesh

Rename Fort Bragg for Edward Bragg (Famed Union 'Iron Brigade' General). Some Other Possible Renames, Including Blacks

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

**  Colonial-era Royal Carriage stirs up modern  backlash in Netherlands.  (So "Woke" has hit there as well.)

**  Forget 'Fort Lee'--  Congress seeks input on replacement for c(C)onfederate names.  (8 News ABC, Virginia. (And you'd think a news organization like ABC would know about proper names.  Maybe its "blacklash" in the media.

**  Fort Bragg seeks public input for base's new name. (I've already suggested Edward Bragg, a noted Union Civil War commander who led the famed Iron Brigade.)

**  Virginia is set to remove Richmond's Lee statue on Wednesday.  (Sure didn't take them long.)

**  Family seeks to rename Fort Benning after Kentucky war hero and his wife.  (Lt. Gen. Hal Moore.  At least he is a white man.  I'd hate to see all of the bases renamed after Blacks.  Some should be, however.  I'd like to see Benjamin O. Davis (Sr. and Jr.), Colin Powell and Jackie Robinson as three of the names.)

--Old Secesh

NAACP and BLM No Doubt Celebrating Lee Statue Removal, Flags, Robert E. Lee a Traitor?, Sad V's Sad Gov

SEPTEMBER 6,  2021

**  Another Robert E. Lee  statue has been approved for removal in Virginia.  (That was the big one on what used to be Monument Avenue in Sad R.  There were a whole lot of articles about this around this time.)

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

**  Largest Confederate statue in US to come down this week.  (That Lee statue in Sad R.)

**  Hearing on removal of Confederate flag from Williamson County seal delayed.  (Tennessee)

**  The traitor Robert E, Lee finally gets his just desserts.  (New Republic.  Really surprising they would take this  attitude.  Kind of racist if you ask me.  Sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do.)

**  Gov.  Northam: 'Virginia's largest  monument to  the Confederate insurrection will come down this week.'   (Big surprise coming from him.)

--Old Secesh

Confederate Railroad's Back! Ignore It. Oscar Wilde, The Post's So Proud of Virginia, West Point's Buffalo Soldiers

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

**  Confederate Railroad and EllieMae Millenkamp looking forward to Petersburg.  (Iowa.  Country group Confederate Railroad has come under a lot of fire from certain folks because of their name and use of Confederate flags on their logo.  They had several concerts in Illinois canceled because of it.)

**  EEOC:  Applebee's told Black line cook to 'ignore' co-workers wearing Confederate  flag gear.  (Exactly right.  That would be the thing to do.  Maybe the black line cook should wear BLM stuff.)

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

**  James Gill:  Who was Oscar Wilde's favorite American?  Turns out he was a Confederate.  (Jefferson Davis)

**  Two recent decisions  put Virginia on the right side of history and morality.  (Washington Post of course.  One was the pardon of the Martinsville Seven and taking down the Lee statue.  Big surprise the Post would say something like this.  However, they were right in the pardon of the Martinsville Seven.)

**  West Point will unveil a statue honoring a group of black soldiers.  (Buffalo soldiers.  I am very happy to see this happening.  They deserve to be honored.  I'd love to see the Army bring them back as an all-Black unit.  Talk about esprit de corps.)

--Old Secesh

Hey Media, Confederate Is a Proper Name and Needs to Be Capitalized

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

**   Opinion:  Get Confederate  symbols off  Virginia school campuses.    (Daily Press, Virginia)

**  Statue of Confederate  Gen. Robert E. Lee in Virginia's capital  can be removed, court rules.  (Virginia's Supreme Court.  Can you imagine a governing body in Virginia being anti-Confederate?)

**  Cost a concern for moving Confederate memorial.  (Augusta, Georgia.  Just have the people who want it removed pay for all costs.  Put your money where your mouth is.)

**  Demonstrators  call Mayor Curry a 'liar' after failure to remove c(C)onfederate monuments.   (Jacksonville, Florida.  First Coast ABC News.  Something about a proper name, guys.)

**  The 'Dukes of Hazzard' c(C)onfederate flag car damaged by Hurricane Ida.  (NME.  Proper name.  Did BLM have something to do with the hurricane?)

I'm beginning to think Blacks must be demanding that Confederate stop being a proper name and thusly capitalized like they did to get black when used as an adjective capitalized.  Which of these terms might be considered racist?:  The Black man,  The white man.  Is this racist?

Actually, most media seems to have a grasp on the proper name thing, but there are some with no idea.

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

**  Panel recommends relocating Edenton's Confederate monument.  (North Carolina)

**  Confederate street names are dividing Clayton County neighborhood.  (Georgia)

**  Confederate monuments under threat of being moved.  Augusta, Georgia)

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

**  Group rallies at City Hall  to call for removal of Confederate monument  at Springfield Park.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  A black group with their white minions.

**  Skaff:  Confederate  statues and moral equivalents.  (Columnist)

**  Judge formally dismisses lawsuit over  Confederate monuments in Huntsville.  (Madison County, Alabama.  The state had asked for the county to pay $25,000 for the illegal removal of the statue, but a private donor had already paid the $25,000.)

--Old Secesh

Reburial of Gen. Forrest and Wife on September 17 and 18

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

**  City leaders ponder Confederate statue.  (Augusta, Ga,)

**  Georgia has the most schools in the nation with c(C)onfederate names, says advocacy group.  46 CBS News Atlanta.  Looks like one of those many Confederate-named schools would have taught Channel 46 that Confederate was a proper name and should be capitalized.  They must have gone to a non-Confederate named school.  

And guess who the advocacy group is?  None other than the good folks at SPLC.  I wonder how you get a college degree in advocacy?  Probably by making Confederate-hate lists.)

**  Is rural America becoming the new Confederacy.  (Yep.  They don't like rioting, looting and arson either.)

**  Human Relations Commission:  Move Confederate  monument.  (Edenton, North Carolina.  It was a 7-6 vote.  Guess who voted which way.)

**  Date set for private reburial of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Columbia.  (Tennessee.  Burial was September 17 and 18.  All sorts of precaution were used to prevent BLM and NAACP supporters from disrupting the funeral.  Even the location where the SCV was keeping the general and his wife before the reburial was kept secret so those people could not desecrate them further than they had in Memphis.  I am also sure, security measures will be made to keep the graves from being desecrated once all this is over.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Canada, Va. Tech, Photographs, Georgia Schools and Tennessee

AUGUST 30, 2021

**  Confederate flag in Invermere stirs deep concern.  (British Columbia, Canada.  It was on the front of a truck.  It wasn't going to hurt anybody.)

**  Virginia Tech issues statement on reports LBGTQ flag stolen and replaced with Confederate flag.  (Say they're against all forms of prejudice.  What about the prejudice against all things Confederate.  That's a prejudice too.)

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AUGUST 31, 2021

**  A photographer's look at Florida's Confederate  monument sites.

**  Georgia leads country in schools named after Confederate leaders.  (Sounds like a SPLC thing to me.)

**  Vote to remove Confederate flag from Williamson County seal delayed for Sons of Confederate Veterans.  (Tennessee.  Have to wait until Feb. 2022.)

--  Old Secesh

SPLC Makes Another List, Renaming, Monument, Capitol and NAACP

AUGUST 28, 2021

**  SPLC reveals new data on schools whose names glorify and pushes to change them.  (Imagine this racist group making another list like this.  And they still won't make that list about how many BLM "peaceful demonstrations" turned violent with looting, burning and rioting and how much damage was done last year.  Perhaps that would make their "Cause, Confederadication" look bad.)

(And, by the way, I am all in favor of changing the Confederate-named schools whose students are mostly Blacks.)

**  Northampton County Confederate monument comes down.

**  Rep. Richard Hudson:  Community input vital for Fort Bragg renaming.  (North Carolina)

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AUGUST 29, 2021

**  It's time to remove Confederate and white supremacist statues  from the Capitol.  (Grand Forks Herald)

**  Confederate history,  core values, common sense, BLM discussed at  NAACP forum.

Those Good Ol' SPLC List-Makers.  --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania

AUGUST 26, 2021

**  Alexandria starts pilot program to rename Confederate-named streets.  (Virginia)

**  Residents submit suggestions for black statue where c(C)onfederate statue once stood.  (Gainesville, Florida.  Too bad WCJB doesn't know Confederate is a proper name.  And, it brings forth the question of why every removed Confederate monument needs to be replaced with one for a black person?)

**  South Fulton looks to rename  buildings and roads associated with Confederacy.  (Georgia)

**  End of an era:  Monument to Confederacy relocated.  (Mecklenburg County, Va.)

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AUGUST 27, 2021

**  Northampton Confederate removed, headed for storage.  (Virginia)

**  What will happen to the Confederate monument in Columbus?  (Georgia)

**  MARC director:  Confederate flag display was free speech.  (Pennsylvania)

--Old Secesh

My Thoughts on the Lee Statue in Sad R.-- Part 2: Let BLM Pay Costs

I reluctantly support removal of all Confederate items from all public places.  They offend certain elements of the population and I can understand why they don't like them.  Although I find it hard to believe that it took them so long to realize that they were offended by them.  Come on, many stood for 100+ years.  Now, I can understand perhaps not saying anything about them during the Jim Crow era, but that essentially ended in the 1960s.  There have been a lot of years that have passed since then and last year after G.F. "Woke" many.

As in the case with all Confederate statues that are removed, all costs or removal, protection, storage and finding new places for them should be paid by those wanting them removed.  The statues should be turned over to the SCV and UDC for new sites on which to be erected.  Then, those who hate the Confederacy should pay for protection as we know BLMers and their white minions like nothing more than to desecrate statues with their profanity and paint.

I still believe that any statue up for removal should be voted on.  I'd go with how the majority of the people vote in all cases.  But, of course, Democrats and Blacks have seen what happened in Virginia on such votes last November, so sadly, that won't be happening.

The best thing others can do is to vote the rascals out and put friendly folks into power.

And, don't forget, the Democrats were the party of the South all those years during Jim Crow.

--Old Secesh

My Thoughts on the Lee Statue in Sad R-- Part 1: Now Take Down the Pedestal with All That BLM Desecration On It

I am very glad to see that statue is down and I'm hoping the pedestal is down by now as well.  However, I now understand a new time capsule has been buried at the pedestal's cornerstone so I am not sure that it will not be taken down at this time.

What the city of Sad R. allowed done to that pedestal is an extremely sad thing.  I am disgusted by it.

At least the statue was not removed at the top of the pedestal under cover of the night as seems to be the case with most Confederate statues.  Something about why criminal activity tends to take place at night instead of the daylight.

That construction worker who incited onlookers to cheer should be fired, but, since he works for the black man whose company took it down, he will probably receive a big bonus.  Of course, the Team Henry Enterprises Co. was created to take down other Confederate statues just a few days before that happened.  Devon Henry is a close friend and big contributor to Sad R.'s mayor, who is also a black man.  I always thought there was something funny about all that.

Between Sad R.'s mayor and Sad V.'s governor (a white man), both of whom are Democrats, that poor state and city are going right down the tubes.  I would move there just to vote against them, but at present the city and whole state is on my boycott list.  So, sadly that won't happen.

But, what surprises me is that I am sure there are a lot of people living in Virginia who are proud of their Confederate heritage, perhaps even a majority of them.  This last November during elections, out  of six places where statue removal was placed on the ballot, all six places voted no.  Of course, now Democrats and their black allies sure won't be placing anything up to the will of the people anymore.

Let's Not Forget the Political Party That Ran the Jim  Crow Era in the South.  And, It Wasn't the Republicans.  --Old Secesh

Statue of Lee Comes Down in Sad V.-- Part 2: A Sad Day in U.S. History

"Any remnant like this that glorifies the lost cause of the Civil War, it needs to come down," said Gov. Ralph Northam, who called it, "hopefully a new day, a new era in Virginia.  The Democrat said the statue represented "more than 400 years of history that we should not be proud of."

No arrests were reported and there was no sign of counterprotest.  Workers used a power saw to cut the statue in two, so it can be hauled under highway overpasses to an undisclosed state-owned facility until a decision can be made about its future.

The job was overseen by Team Henry Enterprises led by Devon Henry, a black executive who faced death threats after his company's role in removing other Confederate statues was made public last year.

A Sad Day Indeed for Sad V. Which Just Continues Free Fall.  --Old Secesh

Statue of Robert E. Lee Comes Down in Virginia (Or Is It Sad Va.?)

From the September 9, 2021, Chicago Tribune by Sarah Rankin and Denise Lavoie, AP. 

A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as workers hoisted one of the nation's largest Confederate monuments off a pedestal of Gen. Robert E. Lee towered over Virginia's capital city for more than a century.  Richmond was also the capital of the Confederacy.

This was a magnificent example of public art.  See the painting of the statue on its dedication back in the late1800s.  Again, I just don't see how people could have lived with the statue over a hundred years before some of them realized they were offended by it?

The statue was lowered to the ground just before 9 am (How about that?  A statue removed during the daytime instead of the dead of the night.) after a construction worker who strapped harnesses around Lee and his horse lifted his arms in the air and counted, "Three, two, one!" to jubilant shouts from hundreds of people.

A work crew began cutting it into pieces.

Believe me, there are many of us who are quite less than jubilant over this affront to our heritage.

--Old Secesh

General Lee Statue to Come Down This Week in Sad R.-- FINALLY

This is jumping ahead a bit as this is current news and I am just up to August 26 in this blog.

But, I read today that the huge statue of Robert E. Lee in Sad R. is FINALLY coming down.  I wish it had been taken down soon after the state of Sad V and Sad R allowed BLM and their white minions to do their hate crimes to it last summer.

Every time I see a picture of what it looks like now, I see red and just can't believe this hate crime was allowed (even encouraged) to take place.  It certainly reflects poorly on Sad T. and its state.

Hopefully Democrats and BLM will pay for its removal and also restoration.  Now there should be plans as to where it should go.  All costs to move and replace it should also be paid for by those who want it gone.

Hey, Put Your Money Where Your Mouths Are.  --Old Secesh

Civil War II: Hispanic Name, School Names, Sad VMI, Virginia, Geirgia

AUGUST 25, 2021

**  Hispanic caucus calls for Fort Hood to be renamed for Mexican-American general.  (Congress.  Renamed for Gen. Richard Cavazos.  A deserving person as well.  But, of course, there are those who want every base renamed for a black person. So, they might disagree.)

**  More than a year after vote, Montgomery community still waiting for school name change.  (Alabama.  Of course, that vote was by a school board.  The vote should have been by the public these schools in question serve.)

**  How VMI committees are working  to introduce more inclusivity on post.  (Virginia Military Institute.  Shame on them for the Jackson statue.  Of course, the term inclusivity means more black stuff.)

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AUGUST 26, 2021

**  Updated:  Northampton County to remove Confederate monument Thursday.  (Virginia.  100 years old.)

**  Athens' Confederate memorial is back up in a new spot.  (Georgia.  Dedicated in 1872.)

--Old Secesh

It Is So Sad That the SCV Has to Go Through All That Precaution to Rebury Gen. Forrest and His Wife

Their bodies are finally out of that city by the Mississippi River which never did anything to stop the desecration that certain non-white groups and their white minions did to the tombs of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife, Mary Anne.

But, as the Sons of Confederate Veterans get ready to rebury them in a place of safety, the amount of precaution they have to go through is amazing.  This should not happen to the dead.

Why do you suppose all the precautions have to be taken?

And, in the meantime, so far during the Labor Day weekend in Chicago, the tally of shootings, most of whom are Black-on-Black, stands at 6 killed and 60 wounded.  One of the five dead is a 4-year-old boy.

Just Doesn't Make Sense.  --Old Secesh

BLM and NAACP Should Pay to Remove 'Lion of the Confederacy' Statue and Fort Benning Renamed

AUGUST 24, 2021

**  Atlanta c(C)onfederate monument  to be removed from Oakland Park Cemetery.  (11 Alive News.  Looks like they would know Confederate is a proper name and should be capitalized.  Talking about the "Lion of the Confederacy" monument that has so often been the victim of BLM hate crimes the last two years.  It will cost taxpayers S30,000 to remove.  Hopefully BLM and NAACP will pay for it.  You want it gone, you PAY for it.  After all, it  was your folks who desecrated and committed the hate crimes on it.)

**  Charlotte announces street name change, first in city's effort to rid itself of Confederate names.  (North Carolina)

AUGUST 25, 2021

**  South Fulton to consider  Confederate street  renaming task force.  (Georgia)

**  New Stone Mountain logo excludes giant Confederate carving.  (Georgia)

**  We Were Soldiers:  Efforts to rename Benning 'Fort Moore' gains steam.  (Georgia.  Lt. Gen. Harold "Hal" Moore.  Well, at least he is a white guy.  But that will anger some people who think everything has to be renamed for black people.  Personally, I don't mind if some are renamed for Blacks, like Colin Powell, Jackie Robinson or Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. or Benjamin O. Davis, Jr..)

You Want It Gone, YOU PAY For It.  --Old Secesh

Confederadication: Those Pesky Street Signs, Fort Bragg Transparency, Stone Mountain, Those Pesky Statues and Flags

AUGUST 23, 2021

**  A new name for a street that honors the Confederacy.  (Charlotte, N.C..  Jefferson Davis Street to become Druid Hills Way.)

**  'We're going to be very transparent', Fort Bragg leaders to hold town halls on renaming.  (As I said before.  It cane be renamed for Union General Edward Bragg, commander of the famed Iron Brigade.  That would save all the costs of renaming.)

**  Logo for Georgia's Stone Mountain omits Confederate image.  (And you know what certain people have problems with.)

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AUGUST 24, 2021

**  Court ruling means  Georgia Confederate monument  could soon be removed.  (Brunswick)

**  Lorain County Fair: Truce in Confederate flag debate as vendor retires.  (Hey, if the flag offends you, don't buy it.  Don't even look at it and, golly gee, don't do business with the person selling it.  How simple can that be?) 

--Old Secesh

'They're Back.' So Sad to Say, But the Confedereradication Campaign Is Back

AUGUST 23, 2021

I was so hoping that the fact I had not seen alerts for the word Confederate since August 19, that maybe, perhaps, this continued onslaught against any and everything Confederate was at an end.  However, starting on August 23, as the little girl said in that horror movie "Poltergeist,"  "They're back."

And, they're really back.

Like I said before.  Those people stop their attacks, I'll sure be more than glad to stop this blog.  All it does is upset me tremendously and I already have enough blogs.

I write this just to show that the attacks continue, even if national or regional media does not report it.

Maybe There Is a Light at the End of the Road.  --Old Secesh