Civil War II: Mississippi State Song, LSU, Silent Sam, UNC, New Mexico

APRIL 3, 2022

**  Mississippi lawmakers push to drop state song with racist roots.

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APRIL 4, 2022

**  County judge:    Confederate monument exhibit could come "shortly"

**  Students bring attention to displays honoring Confederate soldiers, segregationist at LSU museum.  (Louisiana)

**  Column:  Silent Sam still looms over campus.  (I thought it had been illegally taken down.)

**  See how many Confederate memorials  still exist in New Mexico.  (Another SPLC list.  But, they won't make up a list showing how much damage was done during the summer of 2020 when the BLMers were busy rioting, looting and burning.)

In case you're wondering, New Mexico has two Confederate memorials.

Hey SPLC, Would Making a Damage List Make Your Side Look Bad?  --Old Secesh

UNC-Chapel Hill Is Confused On What Is Desecration and What Isn't. Not Just Confederadication, But Rubbing Our Noses In It.

JULY 12, 2021

**  UNC's  Unsung Founders Memorial desecrated by pro-Confederates.  (Chapel Hill, N.C.   Two guys with Confederate flags were by it and one had the audacity to sit down on it.  And this was referred to as desecration.  Of course, UNC was where the Silent Sam statue, honoring UNC students who died fighting for the Confederacy was pulled down during "demonstrations" against it.  But, that wasn't desecration.  But a guy sits on a monument honoring Blacks who helped build the campus and that was desecration.

I tell you, it is pretty hard to get a fair shake from the media these days.  Hey, isn't it a law that media must term anyone standing up for their Confederate heritage to be Neo-Confederates linking them, of course, to Neo-Nazis?

Take a look at the pictures to the right and which would you call real desecration?

**  Contextualizing the Confederacy in Georgia: is it possible?

**  Statue of Florida's  Mary McLeod  Bethune heading to the nation's Capitol, replacing Confederate image.  (Why do all Confederate statues HAVE to be replaced by black statues?   Granted, Mary Bethune was a remarkable woman and deserves honor, but that is rubbing our noses in all of this Confederadication.)

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JULY 13, 2021

**  UNC police:  No vandalism  of Unsung Founders Memorial despite videos of Confederate flaggers.

**  Putnam Board of County Commissioners voted to move a Confederate  monument.  Now they're considering an ordinance to protect it.  (Palatka, Florida)

Destruction of Silent Sam Statue  At UNC-Chapel Hill Was Desecration.  Sitting On A Memorial Is In Poor Taste, But Not Desecration.  --Old Secesh

What About Those College Professors? Half the Staff. A Murky Legacy. Not Here.

MARCH 8, 2021

**  Confederate statue haunts  Blacks in Mo. town.  (Liberty, Missouri.  For crying out loud.  It is in a cemetery!!!    The graves of some 40 unnamed Confederates are around it.  At least the "activists" who want the statue removed are willing to pay $10,000 for it.  I can respect that.)

**  Half the staff:  Confederate flag to fly  from smaller pole.  (Virginia.  All the impact!!)

**  Confederate monuments  vandalized in city-owned cemetery.  (Atlanta.  Again, that was not vandalism.  It was nothing short of a hate crime.)

**  A murky  legacy:  Confederate generals who helped black locals.  (How could this be?)

**  Ky. mayor says Confederate statue  won't be on city property.  (Owensboro, Kentucky)

**  South Alabama professors wore Confederate gear, posed with a whip  and noose.  Now they're under investigation.  (From Halloween 2014.  They have been placed on leave.  University of South Alabama.  Of course, nothing at all happened to college professors who provoked attacks on Silent Sam at UNC or the one at UAB who posted how to pull down a statue.  We must be fair here.)

Like, BOO!!!   --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Monuments, UNC, Silent Sam, Jacksonville Fla., The Bachelor and North Carolina

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

**  Removing monuments not the answer to stopping hatred.  (As a matter of fact removing them causes more hatred.)

**  AAUP chapter calls for Chapel Hill's chancellor's removal.   (UNC-Chapel Hill.  American Association of University Professors.  Of course, I believe a lot of this Confederate hatred stems from the actions of professors, especially at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

**UNC president tried to quell outrage over secret Silent Sam deal.  (Of course, there was no outrage at the hate crime committed in the name of the university that night.)

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

**  DCPS  hears from public about  changing  schools named after Confederate leaders.  (Duval County, Jacksonville, Fla.)

**  Bachelor's  Demi Burnett apologizes for wearing a jacket  with the Confederate flag on it.  (Has it come to this? OMG?)

**  Months later, Wilmington's Confederate monuments remain in limbo.  (Wilmington, N.C.)

**  Group campaigns to remove Confederate monuments from public property.  (North Carolina.  A statewide campaign.

**  Defense Department names  four representatives to Confederate base naming commission.

--Old Secesh

Best FUs for Confederate Monuments-- Part 2

Okay, here's the list of things Blacks have done that please her:

1.  Bree Newsome climbing the flag pole at the South Carolina Capitol and taking down the Confederate flag.

2.  Kehinde Wiley's statue in Richmond.

3.  An anonymous hero  swiping flags from a graveyard full of traitors in Virginia.  (There is a special place in hell for people who desecrate a cemetery.)

4.  A couple  calmly firing a contractor  who pulled up to work in a truck fly the Confederate flag.

5.  Savana High School (California) got rid of their Johnny Reb mascot.

6.  Tyler Perry building his studio on Confederate land.

7.  Silent San statue at UNC pulled down.  (So sad.  Every student in the video should be expelled and the ones who pulled it down and then did their little celebratory dance on it should be arrested.)

8.  Black man snatching Confederate flag on live TV in Charleston, SC.

9.  Tennessee activists committing hate crime on Confederate monument.

Now, numbers 2, 4, 5 and 6 are not criminal offenses, but  the first three could be classified as hate crimes.  The rest of them are criminal activity and should be prosecuted.

So, someone apparently is saying that people should go out and be criminals.

And, when I see one of those giant Confederate flags flying alongside an interstate, I'm thinking that's a big FU to all those intending to bury the Confederacy.

I Don't Think This Gal Likes Us.  --Old Secesh

UNC Hate Crime Guys Get to Take a Walk. Really? Even George and Abe? UDC, Capitol Riot, Forts and Forrest

JANUARY 29, 2021

**  United Daughters of the Confederacy to relocate Confederate statue from downtown Dalton.  (Georgia)

**  Charges tossed  for two men accused of toppling  Confederate statue Silent Sam at UNC Chapel Hill.  (North Carolina.  The reason?  Too many other, more important cases to try because of COVID backup. These guys committed a hate crime and they get to take a walk.  Big surprise.  Had this involved a MLK statue, would the culprits have gotten a walk?  Actually every student there, both hands on and cheering on should have been expelled for hate crimes.  None were.)

**  OP-Ed:  Bibles and Confederate flags mixed at Capitol riot.  They shouldn't in Christianity.

**  San Francisco  school board votes to rename 44 schools, including  Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.  (Gosh.  Oh Gosh.  How low will they go.)

**   Military Matters:  Commanding general talks Fort Benning name change.

**  Statue of Confederate general Nathan Forrest removed from Myrtle Cemetery, put into storage.  (Rome, Georgia)

**  Hispanic congressmen  push for purge of Confederate renaming panel.  (Want Trump people removed from panel.  Want forts named after Hispanics.  How about Fort Santa Anna?)

Go Ahead and Blame It On the Virus.  --Old Secesh

Statues Toppled and Lynched in North Carolina-- Part 6: And, I Thought Nooses Were a Hate Crime

Two statues of two Confederate soldiers that were part of a larger obelisk were torn down Friday night by rioters in Raleigh, North Carolina.   (With all the practice they got pulling down the "Silent Sam" statue at UNC-Chapel Hill, they really know how to do this.  It was another example of we don't have to follow the law anymore.)

Police initially stopped the rioters, but after the area was cleared, the rioters returned and finished the job.  They dragged the statues down the street and STRUNG ONE UP BY THE NECK from a light post.  (Wait a minute, isn't a noose and lynching considered a hate crime?  And they weren't arrested.  I wonder what NASCAR Bubba and all his buds would say about this?)

Lynching and nooses must be a new one of those black things where they can use them, but Whites can't.  Kind of like the "N" word, you know.

Next, North Carolina's governor reacts to this.  Did he order various law enforcement groups to go out and arrest the perpetrators?  I mean, after all, they had committed not one, but two hate crimes.  (Attacking a Confederate statue and the "lynching.")  You'd think that was a rather serious thing.  Wouldn't you?

Find Out Next Post.  --Old Secesh

Riots in Chicago and Across the United States

Why do the media outlets continue to call what happened protests?  It  may have started that way, but what I saw on State Street in Chicago on TV last night was definitely NOT a protest.  It was a complete riot.  The police should be commended for not attacking the rioters and looters, especially after the names, taunts and items hurled at them.

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I know the reason for the initial protesting was the death of the man in Minneapolis at the hands of the police, but I went to the Hey Jackass Mayhem in Chicago site for an update on shootings in Chicago so far this year.  The numbers are sad.  And most of the victims are Blacks and have been shot by other Blacks.

S&W--  Shot and Wounded,  S&K-- Shot and Killed

This week so far (May 24-30):
21 S&K, 80 S&W

Month of May
60 S&K, 274 S&W

Year to date:

204 S&K, 904 S&W

Maybe, just maybe, there is a bigger issue than one man being killed by police.  And, just maybe a bigger issue than those Confederate statues.

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Of course, watching the footage of what happened at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill when the students committed the hate crime and tore down the Silent Sam statue sure reminded me of what I was seeing in Chicago and many other U.S. cities last night.

The radical left has gotten as badly out of control as the radical right.  And, it used to be that the left could at least be counted on to be sane, but not any more.  Just watching the two sides at Charlottesville it was hard to tell who was worse.

Hey, friends, last night was nothing but riots.  Wondering if what the rioters were breaking or spray painting was just vandalism as it is in the case of Confederate statues?  Or was it a hate crime.

I wish the media would stop calling it protests.

Call It Like It Is.  --Old Secesh

Ole Miss Apologizes, Agriculture and the SCV, More N.C. and Charlottesville Again

February 27, 2020

**  Ole Miss apologizes to black protesters arrested in 1970.  (It might be nice if UNC-Chapel Hill would apologize for their students destroying Silent Sam.)

**  Cannabis, Confederates and saving farms:  The primary  for N.C. Agriculture Commissioner.    (One Republican and 3 Democrats running for it.  The Republican is incumbent.

One of the Democrats is a white woman who criticizes the SCV for having a booth at the state fair every year "a group whose whole mission is to engage in whitewashed history that is racist and discriminatory."

Not really sure what the SCV and agriculture have in common.

**  Civil War raging again in North Carolina.  (Big to do over the new N.C. Civil War and Reconstruction  History Center because of race relations and slavery.  "In a state where radicals knocked off the Silent Sam Confederate veterans statue in the dead of the night in 2018, and similar statues  were taken down in Winston-Salem and Pittsboro...."

**  City planning several events to mark Liberation and Freedom Day.  (Charlottesville, Va.--  This day near April 13 was celebrated because of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, but the city council, in all their intelligence decided not to honor him (probably because he owned slaves and we all know that anyone who owned slaves was worse than Hitler and the Nazis) even though he had a little to do with that city.

Instead, they choose to honor Union General Sheridan who came to town with the intention of destroying it (and the university as well).  Of course, they said it was because he liberated all the enslaved people.  You'd think they would have more respect for a local boy who did well and had something to do with the establishing of the United States.  You know, that Declaration thing and presidency.

You've Really Got to Wonder About Charlottesville and Virginia.  What In the World?  --Old Secesh

Virginia Again, That Cemetery Again, Silent Sam Again

February 25, 2020

**  Virginia lawmakers pass bill to swap holiday honoring Confederate generals for Election Day.

**  Arkansas cemetery allows Confederate flags despite protests.  (Eureka Springs--  It is up to person's family to okay flags.)

**  Why Silent Sam should stand again at UNC.  (Opinion.  Applauds the judge striking down the SCV deal, but wants statue returned to where it stood for over a hundred years.  I'd like to see it go back, but, the amount of money that would have to be spent to stop hate crimes on it would be too much, especially since the UNC students and their faculty supporters know that nothing will happen to them if they are caught.)

**  Chapel Hill mayor and council ask Guskiewicz to keep Silent Sam out of Chapel Hill.  (Part of this is due to student safety issues.  It would be horrible if the statue fell on any of the UNC students while they were in the process of committing a hate crime.)

Hate Crime, Not Vandalism.  --Old Secesh

Still "Silent", Confederate Flag, St. Augustine and a Confederate Rose

February 22, 2020

Again, these are headlines from newspapers and media outlets around the country.

**  Virginia is poised  to let cities remove Confederate monuments.  It's about damn time.

**  Confederate group has 45 days to return 'Silent Sam' to UNC.  (And, then what will UNC do with it?  Probably just bury it.)

**  The history of the Confederate flag and what it represents.  (A very anti-Confederate article.  What does this have to do with teens and their fashions?  Written by Jameelah Nasheed.  I reckon that explains it.  No racism here, of course.)

**  St. Augustine wants community's input on memorial to honor black troops.  (Florida--  If black troops played a role in St. Augustine during the war I'll be all for it.  You can never have too many things about history.)

**  Sharing flower cuttings is a joy.  (Andalusia Star-News,  Alabama--  This is about the Confederate Rose flower.  I reckon there will be those people who want to change this name.  You know, slavery and all.)

**  Statue of archsegregationist remains in Capitol Square.  (Richmond, Va.  -- Statue of Harry F. Byrd, Sr.  From the Richmond Free Press, a black newspaper.)

By the Way, I See That UNC Lost Another Basketball Game.  --Old Secesh

Tennessee's Bust, NC Poll and Does Silent Sam = 3-12 Record for UNC Basketball?

February 21, 2020

**  Panel vacancy delays action on Tennessee Confederate bust.  (Bedford Forrest)

**  General's bust in Tennessee Capitol draws  passionate arguments on whether it should stay or go.

**  WRAL News Poll:  NC residents say keep Confederate statues.    (Race and political ideology are major indicators involving the ongoing debate over what to do with Confederate monuments, such as Silent Sam at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

Nearly 2/3 of Blacks polled said the statues should be moved to cemeteries or battlegrounds or from public spaces altogether, while only 12 percent said the statues should be left alone.  Another 14% said the statues should remain where they are, but context plaques be added.

By comparison, 45% of North Carolinians said the statues should remain where they are, and another 25% said historical context should be added.    Only 23% said they should be removed.

10% who voted for Trump in 2016 say the statues should be removed compared to 58% who voted for Clinton.  Residents identifying themselves as conservatives were twice as likely to want the statues to remain than those who said they are liberal.  So, it is a Republican vs. Democrat thing.

I plan on voting for Republicans here in Illinois for most every position other than president.  And, that is for two reasons.  The first is this is the only way I have to show my contempt for the Virginia Democrats and secondly, to try to get Madigan out of being the Illinois Speaker of the House.  I normally split my votes between the two parties.  I voted for Clinton in 2016.  I also voted for Obama in his second term as well as when he was running for U.S. senator from Illinois.

And, I am sure hoping Virginians can turn the Democrats out of at least one of the houses there.

**  UNC promises that Confederate statue won't return to campus.  (That would be Silent Sam.)

I can't help but think perhaps the way the school treats its history might have something to do with their current 3-12 basketball record.  Come on, UNC with that kind of record?  They used to be good.  And, when it comes to major college basketball fans and since I am from North Carolina, UNC was my team.  But, now with this Silent Samia epidemic I'm not so sure.

Maybe Someone or Something Is Trying to Say Something.  Makes One Think.  --Old Secesh

Should Confederate Monuments Be Treated Like MLK Memorials? UNC Chancellor Says Silent Sam Can't Come Back to School (Now, He'll Never Graduate)

February 20, 2020

**  Florida lawmaker says Confederate monuments should be honored like MLK memorials.  (He will come under intense fire for that statement.  We know why certain people don't like anything Confederate, but is there anything that MLK did that might offend some people?

But, didn't MLK have all those extramarital affairs as a preacher?  You'd think he'd know better than that.  Plus, there was the way some Blacks reacted to his murder with rampages, fires, looting and rape.)

**  Athens mayor suggests fair's  inaction on Confederate flag will have costs.  (Athens, Ohio--  Members of the fair's governing body voted overwhelmingly against banning the sale of Confederate items.)

**  Democrats running for state senate talk legislature's role in Confederate monuments.  (Salisbury, N.C.)

**  UNC chancellor vows that the Confederate statue will not return to school.  (That would be Silent Sam.  But, didn't UNC allow those students who committed the hate crime by pulling the statue down, then rejoiced, back in school.  And what about those UNC faculty members who put them up to it.  None of them lost their jobs.)

**  Miami-Dade commissioners vote unanimously to change the name of Dixie Highway.  Florida.  Sheer ignorance.)

--Old Secesh

Now, Some More of Virginia? Still, Silent Sam

February 17,2020

**  Bills raise questions about some of Southwest Virginia's own Confederate  symbols.  (11/9-10/38)

**  New Alabama monuments bill puts Birmingham mayor on the spot.

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February 18, 2020

**  Confederate-inspired statue features young black man.  (Richmond, Va.  The new one in front of the art museum.

**  Teaching Confederate monuments.

**  Confederate monuments, memory and history.

**  A little real talk about Silent Sam.

**  UNC will not challenge the judge's order tossing out the Silent Sam settlement.  (OK, judge, when will you or someone in authority order the police to start arresting the UNC students and faculty responsible for tearing the statue down.  I would also like the judge to make a ruling on the legality of the UNC students and faculty for their tearing down the statue.  Is it legal to tear something down you don't like?)

UNC wants Silent Sam returned to campus, but hasn't said what they would do with it.  Obviously, the statue can't be put back up as the students and faculty will just commit hate crimes against it.

--Old Secesh

Embarrassing in Pittsboro NC, We Still Want to Know About Justice to the UNC Students Committing Their Hate Crime, A Poll

February 16, 2020

**  Virginia Democrats at odds over terms of Confederate statue removals.

**  Protesters at a polling site during early voting wave Confederate flags, shout racial slurs.  (Chatham County, NC.  Pittsboro is the county seat. I hate to have this happen.  It makes our side look worse.)

**  Keanu Reeves imposter poses with Donald Trump supporter wearing Confederate flag, causing confusion online.

**  Confederate Railroad to headline concert series.

**  Our View:  Judge rightly overturns sketchy deal on UNC's Silent Sam.  (Fayetteville (NC) Observer  "We applaud students and faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill  for their role in bringing about the judge's decision on Wednesday."  How about  when the justice system will start arresting and prosecuting those very same students and faculty for committing the hate crime in the first place?)

**  Should the legislature increase the fines imposed on cities that remove or relocate Confederate monuments?  (Times Daily of Alabama--  The voting so far:  Yes--  141  No-- 44)

--Old Secesh

Silent Sam Back in the News and Virginia's Confederate Statue Removal Bill

February 14, 2020

**  What happens next to the Confederate monument Silent Sam?

**  Judge overturns UNC's agreement giving Silent Sam statue to pro-Confederate group.  (charloFrom that Confederate-hating Washington Post.  They must be rejoicing there on the editorial floor.)

**  State lawmakers approve Confederate statue removal bill:  So what happens next?  (I have not seen that the governor has signed it yet.)

**  How Ole Miss Athletics help push out Confederate traditions.  (Actually a very fair appraisal of the situation.)

**  Birmingham mayor fights to remove Confederate monuments.  (Remember, the mayor is a black man.  Who'd figure?)

**  In victory for students, court rescinds $2.5 million settlement over UNC's Confederate statue.  (And remember, they were the ones who committed the hate crime by illegally tearing Silent Sam down.  And, on top of it, no arrests have been made, none have been expelled from school.  Now, they want justice?)

**  Hearing continued for two charged with vandalizing Confederate statue.  (Charlottesville, Va--  Being arrested for such action had to come as a shock to them.  Why isn't the other side crying foul on this?)

**  Virginia Democrats at odds over terms of Confederate statue removals.  (Glad to see this removal is not just going to be a feeding frenzy, gloating thing, hopefully.)

Where's the Love for Valentine's Day?  --Old Secesh

UNC Settlement Voided, Woodfin Doesn't Like Confederate Monuments, That Kirby Smith Statue, More Statue "Vandalism"

February 13, 2020

**  Judge voids UNC's controversial settlement over Confederate statue 'Silent Sam.'  (Unbelievable when contrasted with the lack of arrests and convictions for the people committing the hate crime when the statue was torn down.  Where's the justice?  Now the guilty people who are  so mad about the settlement are getting what they want.)

**  Virginia inches closer to bringing down Confederate statues.

**  Here's what Randall Woodfin had to say about Confederate monuments.  (Birmingham, Alabama, mayor.  He is a black man so doesn't like Confederate monuments.)

**  Photo of students with swastika and Confederate flag roils Riverside school. (Martin Luther King High School, California     I hate to see a swastika alongside a Confederate flag.  It is hard enough to fight this losing war as it is without being compared to that German group.)

**  Protest over confederate statue leads to woman being removed from meeting.  (Lake Mary, Florida--   Statue of Confederate General Kirby Smith which used to stand in the U.S. Capitol and has been removed and headed for the historical museum has people not wanting it there.  Protesters were carrying posters against the statue in a silent protest.  I am wondering what the protester did to be removed by police.  By the way, Fox 51, WOGX, Confederate is spelled with a capital "C."

**  Pair pleads not guilty in Confederate statue vandalism.  (Bentonville, Arkansas--   The two are White.  Again, doing this to a Confederate statue is not vandalism.  It is a hate crime.)

**  Letter:  Confederate soldiers were no heroes.

**  Neo-Confederate attorney accused of mishandling clients' money promoted online trolling, harassment. (With League of the South.  This is from the Southern Poverty Law Center so this organization's anti-Confederate stance is well-known.)

--Old Secesh

Will the UNC Radicals Ever Get Over the Silent Sam Deal?

February 1, 2020

** Behind closed doors:  The UNC System concealed $74999 deal's role in Confederate payoff.  (From the Daily Tarheel, UNC student newspaper.  It is very anti-Confederate.  I'd like to know their role in the hate crime committed against Silent Sam that started this whole mess.)

**  Neo-Confederate group slams House guest speaker for their inclusion in controversial prayer.  (Delivered at the Florida House of Representatives.    Neo-Confederate refers to  the group Save Southern Heritage.  Don't you just love the term Neo-Confederate.  Makes you think Neo-Nazi, doesn't it.)

**  UNC essentially paid Confederate group to sue over 'Silent Sam.'  (Just remember, none of this would have happened had they not illegally torn the statue down.)

**  Athletics, UM Foundation, UM Alumni Association support monument relocation.  (Ole Miss)

--Old Secesh

Still Mad About Silent Sam Settlement and Ole Miss on Statue Relocation

January 31, 2020

**  Top UM fundraisers, including current athletic director, support Confederate statue relocation.  (Ole Miss.  At least they propose moving it to an in-campus Confederate cemetery.  But now, what about the school's nickname, the Rebels?)

**  Seeking to nix $25 million deal , UNC alumni say Confederate group never owned 'Silent Sam.'  (Again, had the UNC students not committed a hate crime and torn down the statue, this would not have been a problem.  But this is the second time I've read an article about this "group of UNC alumni and donors" and as of yet, I have not seen the name of the "group" other than there are almost a hundred of them.  Who are they?  Are they a group of black alumni and donors?  Inquiring minds would like to know.)

** Group of UNC alumni say pro-Confederate group had no standing on Silent Sam suit.  (This article says there are 88 alumni in the group, including 14 members of the UNC Black Pioneers.  Also, some of the alumni are alumni of note and lists names.  Two of these were Whites and two were Blacks.)

**  Letter:  Confederate generals are still honored by the Army , too.  (From the Washington Post which is becoming a major anti-anything Confederate source.)

Imagine the SCV Being Considered Pro-Confederate.  --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: PACs, Lawyers, Charlottesville Pays, Silent Sam Again and Virginia Beach

January 30, 2020

**  Will NC  officials return  shady pro-Confederate PAC contributions?  All PACs are shady if you ask me.  Kind of like a hedge fund.)

**  Lawyers get fees in Confederate statues case.  ($300,000 to lawyers who blocked Charlottesville's removal of Confederate monuments to be paid by the city.  Ha Ha!!)

**  Prominent UNC alumni  want to stop $2.5 million Silent Sam deal with Confederate group.  (Again, perhaps they should have tried to keep the students from breaking the law in the first place.)

**  Add context and 2nd statue to Virginia Beach Confederate monument.  (Well, at least  they might be keeping the Confederate monument.)

--Old Secesh