Don't Toss Those Confederate Beads at Mardi Gras. Might Offend, You Know. Scotland and Canada

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

**  Confederate flag beads tossed during Cleopatra parade land in Gallier Hall stands.  (New Orleans.  Well, just drop them next time.  Duh.)

**  Online petition seeks to make London  the latest Ontario community to ban Confederate flags.   (Canada.  Banned in Collingwood.  Are the BLM flags also banned.  To me that means hate, burning and looting.)

**  South Fulton mayor to propose changing  street named after Confederate general.  (Georgia.  Stonewall Tel Rd.   The mayor is Black and guess what?  He wants it renamed after another black person.  There are also other Stonewall Tell places in town, including a school.  I couldn't find out what Stonewall Tell actually stood for because the Confederate general in question had the name and nickname Stonewall Jackson.  So not sure what the Tell was all about.)

**  Murdo  Fraser criticized for  Confederate flag attack in Scottish Greens,  (Scotland)

**  Time capsule  meant for Confederate temple unearthed in Virginia.  (Sad R.  Temple?)

--Old Secesh

Confederate Flags in Canada, Time Capsules, Austin and the N.C. State Alma Mater Song

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

**  Black drivers who saw this Confederate flag in London, Ontario, have a message for homeowner.  (Canada.  Yet, we have to look at BLM signs, flags, tee shirts all over the place.  That offends me.  But, I don't count because I'm white.  Everybody knows only Blacks can be offended these days.)

**  Workers find a  box under Jefferson Davis Confederate monument.  (Sad R.)

**  Austin's Confederate Avenue will be renamed.  (Texas)

**  NC State removes  Confederate term Dixie from  alma mater song.  (Gosh.  The offending words were "Where the winds of Dixie softly blow o'er the fields of  Caroline."  At least they didn't say cotton (you know, slaves picking it).  Maybe change it to the "winds of BLM or George Floyd.")

How Ridiculous Can This Get.  Evidently More So.  --Old Secesh

Confederadication: Sad R., Shreveport, Canada, Alabama, Forts and Charleston

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

**  Possible time capsule found  in Jefferson Davis pedestal.  (Sad R.)

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

**  Confederate monument removal plans progress but relocation date not set.  (Shreveport, Louisiana)

**  Swastikas and Confederate flags seen at Canada's 'Freedom Convoy.'

**  Lawsuit involving  Florence's Confederate statue going  before judge.  (Alabama)

**  Column:  Army forts named for rebels should be renamed posthaste.  (Chicago Tribune)

**  Confederate marker fight may send SC and Charleston to court.  

--Old Secesh

Renaming Bases, Rewriting History and Who Should Get Those Statues

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

**  What's taking so long?  Rename those Confederate bases.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

**  How a Confederate daughter  rewrote Alabama history for white supremacy.   (Mary Bankhead Owen.  Director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History.)

**  Another  time capsule apparently found while removing Richmond Confederate monument.  (Jefferson Davis statue pedestal.)

I still, can't believe that all the Confederate statue stuff was given to the black history museum when it should have been turned over to the SCV and the UDC.

--Old Secesh

'Exorcising' Confederate Names? Really? It's Complicated.

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

**  Georgetown removes memorial bricks dedicated to Confederate soldiers.  (Austin American Statesman.  Sad that they would do that to American soldiers.)

**  Austin  City Council  renames Confederate Avenue.  (Texas.  Renamed for Maggie  Mayes, a black woman of course.  She is deserving of honor, but does every renamed thing have to be renamed for Blacks?)

**  Fairfax task force wants more Confederate names exorcised.  (Virginia.  I'd like to know the racial makeup of this Task force.  And, isn't exorcism something connected to the devil?)

**  'It's complicated':  WSCC professor talks Confederate  statues, monuments.  (Ludington, Michigan.  It sure is.)

Where's That Exorcist?   The Devil Made Me Do It.   --Old Secesh

Civil War II: Robert E. Lee's Bust, Savannah, Old Statues and Idaho

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

**  Confederate flag now flies where  Robert E. Lee bust once sat.  (Fort Myers, Florida)

**  A freed slave was a Savannah war hero.  Melt down a Confederate bust and make him a statue.  (Savannah Morning News)

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

**  Old statues of Confederate generals are slowly disappearing -- will monuments honoring people of color replace them?  (Unfortunately, yes.  It is too bad that we couldn't leave the Confederate ones up and add the ones for Blacks.)

**  Idaho bill would require state approval to remove monuments.  (Idaho?  Really?)

--Old Secesh

Let's Not Rename Everything for Blacks

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

**  Austin's push  to remove Confederate  references should continue with street renaming.   (Texas.  They are renaming the streets for black people.  Every street should not be renamed for Blacks.)

**  Liberty City Council suspends public comments about Confederate statue amid  lawsuit.  (Missouri)

**  Bill seeks to remove Confederate artifacts  from state museum.  (Tennessee.  When history isn't history.)

**  CAIR renews call to remove  Confederate monument from NC  courthouse.  (Again, what do Muslims have to do with this?)

I Don't Mind Some Streets and Places Being renamed for Blacks, Especially Since They Were Overlooked All These Years.  But, NOT EVERYTHING Should Be Renamed for Blacks!!  --Old Secesh

Charlotte, Opinion, Crazy U.S. Senate Candidate in Louisiana and Alabama Newspaper

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

**  Charlotte changes more streets named for Confederate leaders.  (North Carolina)

**  Confederate statue  represents racism and should be removed.  (Opinion)

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FEBRUARY 13, 2022

**  Watch:  US Senate  candidate  burns Confederate flag in political ad.  (Louisiana.  And, he is a black man and a Democrat.  Really surprising.)

**  Alabama Memorial  Preservation Act is a bad law,  and amendment will make it worse.  (Dothan, Alabama Eagle editorial.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Virginia, Texas, Tennessee and Alabama

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

**  Virginia ranks  No. 1 in removing Confederate symbols, monuments in 2021, Southern Poverty Law Center.  (Yep, they made another list.  We call them the Lost People.  But, they won't make up a list of all the damage and destruction BLM did back in 2020.   Very racist of them, don't you think?) 

**  How a Houston  area couple turned Confederate Drive into Prosperity Drive.  (Texas.  They are a black couple.)

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FEBRUARY 12. 2022

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

**  Alabama Republicans pass bill  to hike penalties for removing Confederate monuments.  

--Old Secesh

A Guy Running for Office Really Did That?

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

**  Louisiana  Senate candidate Gary  Chambers burns Confederate flag in new campaign ad.  (Of interest, the candidate is a black man.  Who'd have figured.  Could that be considered a hate crime?  We are not impressed.   And, believe it or not, this guy is a Democrat.)

**  Why are Canadian protesters flying Confederate flags?

**  Proposed Alabama bills would protect Confederate monuments and raise fines if they are removed.

**  N. Carolina town council opts to remove Confederate monument.  (Edenton.  Only two of the members are Blacks.   Someone wants a new statue there to honor a black slave who escaped.  Take down a Confederate statue and replace it with a black statue.  That sure can make for bad feelings.)

Funny Guy in Louisiana.  --Old Secesh

Is Your Home Worth Less If on a Street with a Confederate Name?

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

**  Confederate street names bring lower home prices.  (Hey, I'd pay more to live on a street with a Confederate name.)

**  Spartanburg  lawmaker  resists Orangeburg Confederate statue relocation.  (South Carolina)

**  Who owns Owensboro's Confederate statue?  (Kentucky)

**  Fort Bend County neighborhood residents join forces to get Confederate Drive changed to Prosperity Drive.  (Texas)

**  Capitol rioter  draped in Confederate flag pleads guilty.

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Is That Police Blue Line Flag Really a Confederate Flag?

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

**  Calif. teacher rips kid over pro-cop ,ask, calls it 'new Confederacy.'  (The kid wore a blue line police facemask.  Sure doesn't look much like a Confederate flag to me.  Duh!)

**  Congressman Al Green joins Missouri City  leaders to rename 'Confederate Drive.'  (Texas)

**  Black worker at Confederate site raises race complaint.  (Montgomery, Alabama)

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

**  Bill seeks higher fines for taking down Confederate statues. (Alabama)

--Old Secesh

What Would You Expect From the Montgomery Confederate White House?

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

**  Black History Museum executive says everything's on the table for future of Richmond's Confederate monuments.  (Sad R.  I'm sure what they finally decide on will be a real slap in the face to us.  You know how they are.)

**  Black worker  at Confederate site raises race complain.  (Montgomery,, Alabama.  Works at the First White House of the Confederacy where Jefferson Davis lived early on in the war.  So what did this person expect working there?)

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

**  Post-Confederate law bars Jan. 6 speaker Rep. Cawthorn from office, arguers say.

**  GA Confederate  monument removal leads to Gwinnett lawsuit.  (Georgia Division of SCV.)

**  Rebel statue draws Muslim  criticism.  (That's a real good one.)

Still Not Sure What the Muslims Have to Complain About.  --Old Secesh

All Removed Confederate Items Should Be Turned Over to UDC and SCV

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

**  Post-Confederate law bars Jan. 6 speaker Rep. Cawthorn from office, challengers argue.

**  Two Confederate pedestals coming down today.  (Sad R.)

**  Bill would return  Nathan Bedford Forrest bust to Confederate group in Maury County.  (Tennessee.  Return to SCV.  Any and all Confederate items should always be turned over to the SCV or UDC, all expenses paid and with funds to place it elsewhere.)

**  Nearly 50 Confederate memorials  removed, renamed, and relocated in 2021:  Report.  (Daily Wire.  They describe the SPLC as a progressive group.  They seem to be a progressive hate group all right.)

**  Eleanor Holmes Norton, Cory Booker seek Congressional Gold Medal for  black Civil War veterans.  These are two black U.S. senators.  I agree, the brave Blacks who served in the Union forces should receive recognition, but the Gold Medal would be a bit much.  Hey folks, the Confederate soldiers were pretty brave too.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Where's That List SPLC? Fort Cashe? Mississippi

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

**  SPLC report:  Dozens of Confederate  monuments were removed in 2021, but hundreds remain.  (That has to really stick it to dear old SPLC.  Sorry guys.)

And, you know, they still haven't made a lost (they really love making lists, especially anti-Confederate ones).  I'm still waiting for that list that gives stats on the number of BLM riots and damage done during 2020.

**  Rep. Murphy campaigns to rename Fort Benning after Oveido's SFC Alwyn Cashe.  (A very deserving black Medal of Honor recipient.  However, I am hoping not every single Confederate-named fort gets renamed for black people)

**  Statue of racist ex-Gov. Bilbo quietly moved in Mississippi.  (Mississippi governor and U.S. Senator Theodore Bilbo.)

Would That List Make SPLC's Folks Look Bad?  --Old Secesh

Confederate Really Is a Proper Name and Should Be Capitalized...REALLY

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

**  Pedestal removal of Stonewall Jackson, other c(C)onfederate monuments  to begin this week.  (Wouldn't it be nice if the folks at WRIC knew that Confederate is a proper name.)

**  While 75 Confederate memorials remain in Florida, 30 removed since 2015.  (SPLC says so.)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

**  73 Confederate  monuments were removed  or renamed last year, report finds.  (SPLC again.)

**  U.S.:  George Floyd's murder sparks toppling of c(C)onfederate statues.  

I Think They Use Small "c" in Confederate to Show Disdain.  Don't You?  --Old Secesh

SPLC At It Again, The Pedestal Come Down in Sad R.

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

**  Whose heritage?  Public symbols of the Confederacy (Third Edition).  (SPLC.  Our favorite Confederate hating-group returns for more abuse.)

**  Confederate symbols  falling faster as U.S. wakes  up to past wrongs.  (Reuters)

**  Hundreds of Confederate memorials persist in Georgia, report says.  (Believe it or not, this report is from the good folks at SPLC.  Now why would they be saying stuff like this.  Oh yes, racist.)

**  Richmond begins removing Confederate pedestals.  (Good ol' Sad R. again.  And the mayor's buddy gets richer for removing them, like he didn't already make enough on the statue removals.  Still smells fishy to me.  Oh yes, this from the good ol' Washington Post.)

You Know That Good 'Ol List-Making SPLC.   -Old Secesh

Canada, SPLC Again and South Carolina

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

**  Man with c(C)onfederate flag told to leave by Ottawa truckers: 'We called him out.'  (Canada)

**  SPLC launches third edition of whose heritage?  Report tracking Confederate memorials and their removals across the United States.  (Talk about your super-racist groups, that SPLC is right there.)

**  Legislators try to remove Orangeburg statue;  Confederate monument bill passes senate.  (South Carolina)

**  Anti-vax convoy leader  says he welcomes protesters  displaying 'Confederate flags' in Ottawa.  (Canada)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Trump Rally, Tuskegee, Confederate Flags, California

JANUARY 31, 2022

**  Trump's Texas rally:  Confederate flags, conspiracies, JFK Jr.'s ghost.  (Rolling Stone)

**  Judge to hear suit over Confederate memorial in Tuskegee.  (Alabama)

**  "Vile, violent, and hateful":  Leaders denounce Nazi, Confederate flags at Ottawa protest.  (Canada.  Confederate flags have nothing to do with Nazi flags.)

**  California city named for Confederate general declines to change name... for now.  (Fort Bragg, California)

--Old Secesh

Those Racist Mission Bells, Are They the New Confederate Statues? Was It a Confederate Flag or Not?

JANUARY 29, 2022

**  'Mission bells' have become California's version of Confederate statues.  This Bay Area city is poised to install one.  (Gilroy, California.  Bless their little woke hearts.)

**  Experts weigh in on backdrop in Moms for Liberty photo.  (Carmel, Indiana.  A big "todo" about whether it was some sort of Confederate flag or not in the background.  Bless their little woke hearts.)

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JANUARY 30, 2022

**  Judge to hear suit over Confederate memorial in Tuskegee.  (Alabama.  Think it will be a fair hearing?)

Don't You Just hate It When Those Bells Go Racist?  --Old Secesh

Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina and California

JANUARY 28, 2022

**  Public hearing set on exorcising Confederate general's name from Vienna street.  (Vienna, Virginia.  Wade Hampton Drive S.W..  Judging by word use, I think I know how this journalist stands on the issue.)

**  AL-5 hopeful Dale Strong:  Relocating Confederate statue was done to 'preserve and protect it.'  (Alabama)

**  Asheville Vance monument appeal set for review by NC Appellate Court.  (North Carolina)

**  Heritage protection of North Alabama attempting to cut Dale Strong from ballot over monument removal.  (Huntsville Confederate monument.)

**  Popular NorCal town  still torn over changing racist namesake.  (Fort Bragg, California)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Fort Bragg, Orangeburg, Arkansas and Those Pesky Statues & Flags

JANUARY 25, 2022

**  Fort Bragg citizen group unable to reach a consensus on name change.  (North Carolina)

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JANUARY 26, 2022

**  Confederate statue could be moved out of Orangeburg Memorial Plaza.  (South Carolina.  Plans to move it to a cemetery where Confederate soldiers are buried.)

**  Input sought on Arkansas' new monument protection law.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

**  Opinion:  Those pesky statues and flags.  (Whose pesky statues and flags?)

--Old Secesh