That Stink in North Carolina

 SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

**  Enfield police chief resigns amid Confederate monument controversy.  (North Carolina.  This is the town where the mauor, of his own accord, ordered a bulldozer to knock down a Confederate/World War I statue.  Ever since this has been the Big Stink in North Carolina.  This has also brought out the idiot squad on both sides.)

**  Judge warns Newton chainrman not to remove Confederate statue.  (Georgia)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

**  Owensboro  commissioners deed land to Daviess County for Confederate statue removal.  (Kentucky)

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SEPTEMBER 9,2022

**  Confederate flag to stay in Fort Smith's Riverfront Park.  (Arkansas)

**  CAIR condemns denial of Arkansas town's request to remove  Confederate flag display.  (And, I condemn terrorist activity as practiced by certain people that CAIR represents.  CAIR-- Council on American-Islamic Relations.)

Clean up your own backyard before you go after ours, guys and gals.

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Alabama, North Carolina, Arkansas, Maryland and Georgia

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

**  Alabama superintendent fights to remove Confederate school names.  (Montgomery, Alabama.  Three schools still have Confederate names.  I wonder if the superintendent is a black person or white person?)

**  White supremacists  launch threats after bulldozing Confederate monument.  (North Carolina.  Like I said before.  There are idiots on both sides.  The mayor should not have threats made on him, but definitely should be recalled and if that doesn't work, defeated in the next election.  That's the American way.)

**  Fort Smith's request to stop flying Confederate flag will go before Arkansas History Commission.

**  3 Naval Academy name changes  recommended due to Confederate ties.  (Annapolis, Maryland)

**  Promised  changes to Confederate imagery at Stone Mountain slow coming.  (Georgia)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Arkansas, North Carolina, Country Music and Jacksonville

JUNE 17, 2022

**  Rules on historic markers in Arkansas advance; cities await  legal guidance by state.  (Do you think this involves keeping certain historic monuments?)

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JUNE 18, 2022

**  Tyrrel County activists want  Confederate monument removed.  (North Carolina.  How do you get to be an activist anyway?)

**  Luke Combs addresses  Confederate flag controversy in new interview.  (Luke Combs is a big country music star.  Someone saw a Confederate guitar in an old video and, of course, had a hissy-fit.)

**  Mayor Curry will continue pushing  for Confederate monument removal.  (That Jacksonville, Florida mess.)

--Old Secesh

Death Threats, Laws, Confederate Flag, Louisiana

MAY 2, 2022

**  In US, death threats to those  removing Confederate statues.  (Bangkok Post)

**  Arkansas  legislature prevents Confederate statue from being removed.  (Fort Smith, Arkansas.  Historic Monument Act of 2021)

**  Confederate flag taken down  after community backlash in Hamilton.  (Canada.  I wonder of there would be backlash over a BLM flag?)

**  Louisiana House votes to end days of honoring Lee, Confederates.

--Old Secesh

Those Statues and Memorials, Making Money in Sad R., Street Names and High Schools

APRIL19, 2022

**  Social justice groups' monuments are counternarrative to Confederate  memorials.

**  Some raise questions about the Confederate monument on Boone County, Arkansas,  courthouse lawn.

**  Woodhaven police respond after c(C)onfederate flag, signs placed in front of department.

**  A Black-owned  construction company is responsible for  removing Confederate statues. (Sad R.  And the guy made lots and lots and lots of money.)

**  Metro seeks  state permission to remove Confederate memorial from  Centennial Park.  (Nashville)

**  Forest Hills petitions to rename c(C)onfederate  streets.  (Nashville, Tennessee)

**  'Like living inside a Confederate statue':  Wheeler High students on why they want to rename school.  (Cobb County, Georgia)

--Old Secesh

A Confederate Statue Replaced with a Non-Black One in Utah. Who'd Have Figured?

MARCH 6, 2022

**  Former site of Confederate statue picked for new symbol  at Dixie State University.  (Utah.  I am shocked that they didn't put up a statue to Blacks in the place of the Confederate soldiers.  They replaced it with a bison.  Of course, I am surprised that they haven't changed the name of their school yet.  I propose Woke State University.)

**  Replacing images of Confederate generals.  (Arkansas)

**  SC workers get Juneteenth, Confederate holiday choice.  (Personally, I think they should have a holiday devoted to that wonderful man named George Floyd who led such an exemplary life.)

And, Here I Was Thin king That the New Law Said That ALL Confederate Statues Removed Had to be Replaced with Ones of Black People.  Well, Just "Woke" Me.  --Old Secesh

Sad R.'s Remover, Full Reckoning, Groundbreaking and South Carolina

MARCH 1, 2022

**  Business owner who removed Confederate monuments speaks publicly for the first time. (Sad R.'s monuments.  This man made a lot of money doing this and was a big supporter of the mayor.)

**  Fully reckoning with the legacy of American slavery requires more than the removing of Confederate monuments.  (I agree with this.  The complete true story must be told.)

**  Groundbreaking planned on private park in Bentonville for relocated Confederate monument.  (Arkansas)

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MARCH 2, 2022

**  South Carolina Senate votes to remove Confederate holiday.  (Also Juneteenth proposed as new state holiday.  Of course, replace a Confederate holiday with a black one.  Real surprising.)

What a Burn!!  --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

The Second Civil War: Is a Confederate Flag Like a BLM Sign? Minnesota, Alabama, Bruce Lee, and Jacksonville

OCTOBER 6, 2021

**  Student suspended for five days  for flying Confederate flag past protesters.  (Mapleton, Minnesota)  It all started with a BLM sign at a football game and resulted in a protest.  So, BLM stuff is okay, but not Confederate.  Seems a bit biased to me.)

Personally, anytime I see anything BLM, I only think of the rioting, arson and looting that so many BLM events sank to last year. However, I must give the group credit because they haven't been doing that this year.  So, thanks, BLM.

**  'Meltdown in Dixie' coming to SCETV:  explores Confederate flag dispute.

**  Alabama capital strips  Confederate president's name off road.  (Montgomery, Alabama.  Jefferson Davis.)

**  The Lost Cause wins a court battle in Arkansas.  (Fort Smith.  A win for us.  Unbelievable.  How's that happen?)

**  Group wants movie icon Bruce Lee, not Robert E. Lee,  as county namesake.  (Florida.  King-fuey!!)

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

**  3 City Council members endorse removal of Confederate statue in Springfield Park.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  Two of them are Black and one is white.

--Old Secesh

Of Flags, Fountains, Spray-Painting, Statues, Parades and Sad R.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

**  Confederate flag license plate spurs hostile workplace trial.  (Connecticut)

**  Group that donated Confederate  fountain in Helena wants it back.  (Montana.  Put there in 1916 and removed in 2017 (BGF)  (Before George Floyd) because of racial concerns.  UDC wants it back.

**  Virginia man who spray-painted Confederate monument at Arkansas' Capitol pleads guilty to misdemeanor.  You mean it is possible to arrest folks for desecrating something Confederate?  I didn't think that was possible.)

**  From Plato to Confederate statues:  Students study why  some iconic images are broken.  (DePauw University)

**  Remains of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill could be reinterred to Culpepper's  Fairview Cemetery.  (Right now they are still in Sad R.  believe me, the sooner we can get all vestiges of the Confederacy out of that town the better.)

**  Court says city can ban Confederate flag in veterans parade.  (Imagine our justice system saying something like that.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Who Wants Those Charlottesville Statues, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Dallas

JULY 27, 2021

**  Here are 32 people and groups vying to take Charlottesville's Confederate monuments.  (Virginia.  I's say they should go to UDC, SCV, a museum of battlefield.  But, please, no black organizations.)

**  George Court of Appeals denies Confederate statue appeal.  

**  Mississippi should support removal of Confederate statues in US Capitol.  Here's why.

**  Searcy Movement  petitioning to relocate Confederate monument; county judge says no plans to do that.    (Arkansas)

**  Demonstrators bring attention to Graham issues with city-wide motorcade.  (North Carolina.  Confederate statue.)

**  Belo renamed to Arts District Mansion due to namesake's Confederate ties.

--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

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

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)

--Old Secesh

Why It's Civil War II. School, Pension Tax, That Confederate Monument Ransom, Flags and Fort Sumter

APRIL 14, 2021

**  Atlanta school to drop Confederate general's name and honor Hank Aaron.  (Nathan Bedford Forrest)

**  A new use for Confederate pension tax.  (Alabama)

**  In Confederate monument ransom plot, New Orleans police arrest  third suspect.

**  Mayor's anti-hate  policy would impact the Confederate  flag in Richmond.  (Big surprise this happening in Sad R.  The Confederate flag banned on city property.  However he did not say anything about the equally racist BLM material.)

**  After publicly dumping  its Confederate flag, Mississippi accused of quietly  continuing 'Confederate Heritage Month."

** New legislation aims to replace Confederate Flag Day with Arkansas Day.

**  160 years later, US still fighting  over Civil War.  (Fort Sumter was fired upon April 12, 1861 and surrendered the next day.  No kidding about the war still being fought.  That is why I call this blog Civil War II.  There was a World War I and a World War II, just as there now is with the Civil War.)

--Old Secesh

No Confederate Flag, No BLM Flag. Kentucky, Arkansas, North Carolina, New Jersey, Raleigh and Florida

MARCH 27. 2021

**  Centre College students trying to get Confederate statue near campus removed.  (Danville, Kentucky)

**  Fort Smith  Confederate statue:  Talks in limbo.  (Arkansas)

**  Arizona GOP  wants felony for  protesters who damage  statues.  (If damaging statues is a hate crime (which it is) and hate crimes are a felony, then go for it.)

**  Why is North Carolina  paying this proud Son of Confederate Veterans to lock up black men.  (Yahoo News.  Shame on Yahoo for running an article like this.  Sounds like the New York Times or Washington Post.)

**  NJ 'teacher, activist' accused  of starting riot that topple Confederate statue surrenders.  (Accused of the Raleigh, N.C. riot and arrested.  I still find that hard to believe.  I figured somebody who did something like he is accused of would receive a good citizenship award.)

**  Confederate namesake school demoted teacher  for not removing Black Lives Matter  flag.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  Robert E. Lee High School.   Hey, if you can't have a Confederate flag, you can't have a BLM flag.  Fair's Fair.)

--Old Secesh

'We Is Woke, Oh We Is Woke, Great God Almighty, We Is Woke' New State Song in Maryland. Georgia, Confederate Flags, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

MARCH 21, 2021

**  Demonstrators demand removal  of Confederate symbol in Decatur.  (Georgia.  They're upset about a cannon.  It says on a plaque that it is a relic of the Indians Wars, but was donated by the UDC.  They don't like that.

**  Maryland  Senate votes to retire Confederate state song that refers to Lincoln as a 'tyrant.'  (The new state song should be "We Is Woke, We Is Woke.  Thank God Almighty, We Is Woke.")

**  Confederate national, battle flags aren't the same thing.

**  Kenny Wayne  Shepherd's  Music Award nomination rescinded over Confederate flag imagery.  (So?)

**  Greg Harton:  Arkansas has one too many stars in its flag.  (One star represents the Confederacy and, of course, the Democrats and their BLM allies don't like that.)

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MARCH 22. 2021

**  Baylor to release  report Tuesday on representations of racist roots.  (Baylor University in Texas.  One of the main things they want is the removal of the statue of Robert Baylor, who founded Baylor.  They may also have to change the name of their school.)

We Is Woke, Baby.  We Is Woke!!!   --Old Secesh

The Insurrection Was a Confederate Resurgence. (Now, There's a Headline!) Arkansas, Flags, Georgia and Virginia

JANUARY 19, 2021

**  Arkansas leaders propose bill to repeal Confederate Flag Day.  (Both of them are white.  Surprising.)

**  The insurrection was a Confederate  resurgence.  (This is a good one.  Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.  Sure does.)

**  Confederate flag here, MLK vigil there (and there).

**  Bill Berry:  Confederate flag in the Capitol is an affront to our  ancestors' sacrifices.

**  Gwinnett  citizens call for the removal of Confederate monument.  (Georgia.  The commissioner pushing this is a black man.  That is not racist?)

**  Virginia holiday commemorating Confederacy no longer celebrated.  (Lee-Jackson Day.  Real big surprise that happened in Virginia.  Will the last Confederate out of that sad state please turn out the light.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Arkansas, Confederate heroes Day, SCV, U.S. Capitol Arrests, Kentucky

JANUARY 17, 2021

**  Arkansas leaders propose bill to repeal Confederate Flag Day.

**  Abolish Confederate Heroes Day:  Texas lawmaker  reintroduces bill after 'white supremacist' U.S. Capitol riots.  (Jarvis Johnson, a black man.    Wonder what his stand on the BLM riots in Texas was back this past summer?    Nothing racist about his statement, is there?)

**  Members of Sons of Confederate Veterans celebrate Lee-Jackson Day in Lexington.  (Virginia)

**  Far-right video blogger, man with Confederate flag among latest Capitol siege arrests.  (As well as all those who entered the Capitol should be arrested.  And anyone proven to have caused damage or a confrontation should especially be pursued.  I just hope authorities continue this policy when BLM start their riots when the weather warms up.)

**  Confederate marker's relocation stalls;  WKU tight-lipped about renaming colleges.  (Bowling Green, Kentucky,  Western Kentucky University.  The marker is for Bowling Green being named the Confederate capital of the state.

The school is also looking into changing the names of two WKU colleges:  Potter College of Arts and Letters and the Ogden College of Science and Engineering because these two men owned slaves.  Ridiculous.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Arkansas, Mississippi, State Flags, Alabama

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

**  Confederate monument stays on historic list during transition.  (Bentonville, Arkansas)

**  City of Jackson officially  approves flying new state flag.  (Mississippi)

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NOVEMBER 28, 2020

**  Alabama AG criticizes Confederate monument removals.  (Attorney General.  Says removal goes against 2017 law prohibiting it.)

**  Board accepts bid for Confederate monument removal.  (Greenville County.  From the courthouse square to Emporia Cemetery.  $60,000.  Again, those who want it removed should foot the whole bill.)

**  Sheriff's Department racial panel tackles  Confederate flag, other topics.

**  AG Marshall files  suit against Madison County for removing Confederate monument.  (Huntsville, Alabama.)

--Old Secesh