Arizona's Confederate Monuments, Those Islamic Folk Again, Suing Your School and a Vote.

JULY 9, 2022

**  Here's the real history behind Arizona's Confederate  monuments.

**  CAIR urges  removal of Confederate  flags flown at  Charleston, S.C. harbor.  (Council  on American-Islamic Relations.  (Hope hey don't crash a plane into Castle Pinckney to take down those flags.)

**  Black students sue school after suspension for Confederate flag protest.  (Daily Beast.  Coosa High School, Georgia.)

**  120 House Republicans vote to keep statues of Confederates in Capitol.  (Daily Beast.  But , 285 members voted to remove them, including 67 Republicans.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Fort Liberty and Confederate Flags. What Is a Rioter?

JULY 7, 2022

**  Why 'Fort Liberty'?  Leaders explain why  they pushed for Fort Bragg's proposed new name.  (North Carolina)

**  Feds seek prison for Capitol rioter who had Confederate flag.  (The fact he was in the Capitol under those circumstances should be enough for prison time.  The fact he had THAT particular flag shouldn't be the main concern.  But, let's face it, it does bug certain groups.  And, if the Jan. 6 folks were rioters, what were the BLMers back in 2020 when they did all that burning and looting.  Were they rioters?  Or worse?)

**  Why Confederate flags are flying in the middle of Charleston Harbor.  (South Carolina.  They fly over Castle Pinckney, which is owned by the SCV.)

--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

Cemeteries, County, Fort Polk, Jacksonville and Calhoun

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

**  Answer Man:  Confederate flags at Riverside Cemetery?  Asheville allows them.  (Asheville, North Carolina.  Of course, someone saw them and was upset.)

**  Clarke supervisors taking monument ownership to court.  (Berryville, Virginia)

**  Process underway  for renaming Louisiana's Fort Polk.

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NOVEMBER 18,2021

**  Confederate monument debate will continue in Jacksonville.  (Florida)

**  California museum requests John C. Calhoun statue.  (From Charleston, S.C.  Bad idea.  They intend to do something very negative to the Confederacy with it.)

--Old Secesh

We're Still Waiting for SPLC's List of Black Riots, Looting and Arson. Stone Mountain, Charleston Church Massacre, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida

JUNE 18, 2021

**  Town to celebrate Juneteenth in the shadow of largest Confederate monument.  (That would be Stone Mountain, of course.  The town is Stone Mountain, Georgia, a predominantly black town.)

**  Six years later, 170 Confederate monuments removed since Charleston church massacre.  (Our good friends over at SPLC again.  Yet, they find it impossible to come up with a list of burnings, lootings and rioting that took place during last year's black observance of the George Floyd murder.  Come on guys, we're still waiting for that list.  You know you can do it.)

**  Demonstrators gather at the Statehouse to confront 'Confederate state of mind' on anniversary of Charleston massacre.  (South Carolina)

**  Juneteenth and Alabama's support of the Confederacy in conflict, historian says.  (A black historian)

**  Descendant of Confederate soldier  advocates for the relocation of Bartow monument.  (Florida)

**  Southern history and Confederate monuments.

--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

Renaming Schools, Museums. No Flags Here!! Country Music Racist?

MARCH 13, 2021

**  Behre:  The Confederate Museum, minus the Confederate.  (The word Confederate has been dropped.  It is now just the Museum at Market hall.  So sad.)

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MARCH 14, 2021

**  Massachusetts school board approves Confederate flag ban.  (But no BLM ban?)

**  Should we sell the Confederate statue?  (Owensboro, Kentucky.  Very surprisingly, this is pushed by the local NAACP chapter.)

**  Dallas likely to rename three schools with Confederate namesakes.

**  Why is Confederate flag so offensive.  (A big part of it is that the idiot groups keep waving it.  I wish they wouldn't.)

**  Committee considers five  options to monument.

**  Marren Morris, Rissi Palmer and other country stars discuss racism in them music industry.  (How many white artists get played on black radio stations?)

**  Debate over renaming schools remains impassioned  almost a year after George Floyd's death.  (George Floyd, the poster guy for education.  I'm waiting for George Floyd High School.  Maybe put his face on the $20 bill?)

--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

Civil War II: Whipped Peter, Lost Cause, Georgia, Kentucky, Reporter, Charleston and Fort Bragg

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

**Political Horizons:  Whipped Pete has more Louisiana ties than Nathan Bedford Forrest. 

**  'The Lost Cause' - and effects.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

**  Two Confederate monuments will be removed in Georgia within three days.

**  OMSH officials welcome potential to house  Confederate statue for  historical purposes.  (Owensboro, Kentucky.  Owensboro Museum of Science and History.)

**  A black reporter's road trip to inauguration -- and a search for America's 'soul.'

**  Protesters hold  'Stop the Hate' rally in Charleston.  (South Carolina)

**  Could Fort Bragg be renamed for a woman?

**  Who are Fort Bragg's buildings and streets named after.

--Old Secesh

Lynching Memorial Okayed for Mississippi Town. No More SCV Vanity Plates in NC. North Carolina, South Carolina, Hate Crime and Confederate Flag

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

**  Lynching memorial approved for Lafayette County Courthouse.  (Oxford, Mississippi.  Seven black lynchings occurred in the the county, (three at the square or near it).  I am all in favor of any historical monument, even one showing the sad side of human nature.  The Confederate monument in the square still stands so it is okay with me as long as this is paid for by private citizens, not the town.)

**  North Carolina stops issuing Confederate license plates.  (These are Sons of Confederate Veterans plates. As long as they take a look at others that some might find offensive.  Hopefully there are no BLM license plates.  I see there are quite a few black fraternity and sorority plates, but since they advance education they are okay.)

**  Pasquotank to talk  future of Confederate monument in Monday meeting.  (North Carolina)

**  Police:  Charleston Battery  Confederate monument vandalized.  (South Carolina.  The Confederate Defenders monument.  BLM written on it.  This is not vandalism.  This is a hate crime.)

**  Pitt County commissioners vote to move Confederate statue that was removed last year from courthouse.  (Greenville, North Carolina.  It will be moved to private property.  The movement should be paid for by those wanting it gone.  No public funds should be used.)

**  Sons of Southern Cross sue Van Buren mayor over Confederate flag at Christmas parade.  (Arkansas.  They can't have the flag in parade.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Stone Mountain, Boat Racing, Georgia, Schools, Bubba, Mississippi and Virginia

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

**  Reporter's Notebook:  A good time for Georgia  to address Stone Mountain's Confederate status.

**  Charleston Ocean Racing  Association changing symbol that looks like Confederate flag.  (South Carolina.  Well, it is part of the flag. Sperry, a boating shoe company, is a big sponsor and considering not sponsoring the 2021 event.)

**  Confederate statue at Douglas County courthouse moved Thursday.  (Georgia)

**  Students wore 'Confederate' attire to school, district says.  Texas NAACP outraged.   (Pearland High School.  But, it is okay for students to wear the offensive BLM stuff to school.  Where's the reason?)

**  Bubba Wallace, who urged Confederate flag ban, honored.  (For driving another nail into NASCAR's coffin?  Another example of a black person (and he is only half black, the other half is white) playing the race card.)

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NOVEMBER 7, 2020

**  For black students, Mississippi's new state flag means  end of a 'Confederate' relic.

**  Confederate monuments removed from Fairfax County Courthouse.  (Virginia)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Mosby, Schools, Virginia, Michigan, Charleston and Soviet Union

OCTOBER 10, 2020

**  Relatives of Confederate colonel John Mosby support name change at Mosby Woods Elementary.  (Virginia.  If the majority of the students are Blacks I would support that.  There should be no school named after a Confederate if more than half of the students are Blacks.)

**  Confederate Park to be renamed for late commissioner.  (Alabama)

**  Jackson school named after a Confederate colonel accepting nominations for new name.  (Mississippi.  Named after Col. John Logan Power.

**  New site approved for Caroline County Confederate Civil War monument.  (Bowling Green, Virginia.  Will be relocated to Greenlawn Cemetery.  Expected to cost $25,000.   Again, those who want it moved should pay for it.)

**  Man accused in Whitmer kidnapping plot defended Confederate statue in June.  (Michigan.  Kidnapping plot of Michigan governor.)

**  Only on 2: Mystery confederate (Confederate) marker has City of Charleston, county officials searching for answers.  (South Carolina.  Marker for Robert E. Lee.)

**  On Confederate statues, take a lesson from former Soviet-bloc countries.

--Old Secesh

About That Maybe Confederate Arkansas State Flag. Building Fences for BLM Protection in Georgia.

OCTOBER 7, 2020

**  Panel discussion:  'A Confederate star:  Arkansas ' flag and the Lost Cause.  (Still upset about the Arkansas state flag being some sort of a Confederate flag.)

**  Commission about to consider  petition to remove Confederate general  (Tennessee.  Gen. A.P. Stewart.)

**  Decay of the colossal wreck:  Confederate statues as protected cultural property.

**  "Liberty Bell" is augmented reality project at the Battery through next year.  (Charleston, S.C.  It is meant as a put-down to the Confederacy and is by the Charleston Defenders monument, but is really an interesting object to see the next time you are there.)

**  After protests, Georgia will build a fence around Capitol.  (BLM has been "protesting" at the Capitol building for police reform and against the Confederate statue on the grounds.  You know that whenever BLM and their white minions are involved, there is always the chance of rioting, confrontation, looting and arson.  So, the state is building a rather large fence around the building for safety.

And people wonder why I don't like the BLMers.)  

Same problems whenever there is a judicial decision that they don't like.  Here we go again, rioting, looting and arson.  Like recently happened in Louisville and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.  You don't see the so-called rightist racist groups doing that.

So, Who Are the Bad Guys Here?  --Old Secesh

Ole Miss, SCV, Arizona, Missouri, Mississippi, Virginia and Charleston, S.C.

AUGUST 20, 2020


**  Sons of Confederate Veterans sue to keep Forrest bust  in Tennessee State Capitol.

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AUGUST 22, 2020


**  At football players' request, Ole Miss  covers up Confederate statue  overlooking practice field.  (Geez.  It had just been moved to this site for a more prominent site on campus.  You just can't please some people.)

**  'I can't toe the line':  Arizona's former leader of the Sons of Confederate Veterans resigned. (He wanted the group to stop showing Confederate flags. They didn't back him.)

**  Commission to recommend removal of Confederate monument.  (Jefferson City, Missouri.)

**  The question of whether a Confederate monument in the heart of Brandon should remain.  (Mississippi)

**  City:  No takers  for Norfolk's Confederate monument.  (Virginia.  The removal cost the city $125,000 and it is likely destined for Elmwood Cemetery.

**  Charleston violated free speech by nixing Battery parking.   Confederate flag waver says. (South Carolina)

--Old Secesh

Now, It's Lexington, Virginia, and Finally, a Politician With a Backbone

JULY 26, 2020


**  As Confederate  monuments tumble, die-hards are erecting replacements.  (Washington Post  A big surprise that they would print this, considering their commitment to BLM (you know that group that riots, loots, burns down thing and commit hate crimes) and Confederadication.  I wonder if they have any owners/slaveowners in their past like the other big newspaper, the NY Times, who also hates anything Confederate.)

**  Activist groups protest Confederate flag, make demands for the City of Charleston.  (There have been standoffs at Battery Park over Confederate statues.  Those who are there to make sure BLM doesn't desecrate or try to "topple" them have Confederate flags and this bothers the protesters.  Hey we'll stop flying the flag if you guys stop wearing anything with the equally offensive BLM on it.)

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JULY 27, 2020

**  A Virginia town built around Confederate generals re-examines its identity.  (New York Times  Guess whose side this paper is on.  Lexington, Virginia.  Known as home of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and a victim of whatever it is in the water that is making Virginia such a sad state.)

**  King defends Confederate flag as 'symbol of Southern Pride."  (Iowa Republican U.S. Representative Steve King.  He also opposes BLM.  I may have to move to Iowa.)

**  Confederate monuments on public lands pose unique challenges.

Finally, A Politician With a Backbone.  --Old Secesh

More Statues Toppled, Even U.S. Grant and Francis Scott Key

JUNE 20, 2020

**  Push to purge Confederate names gets minima; traction around Fort Hood, but military is paying attention.

**  How the Army might rename Confederate installations.

**  Statue of Confederate general toppled in DC.

**  NC governor orders removal of Confederate statues in Raleigh.

**  The Latest:  Trump tries to tie statue destruction to Dems.  (Well, if the shoe fits.)

**  Protesters tear down statues of Union general Ulysses S. Grant, National Anthem lyricist Francis Scott Key.  (Duh!!!   San Francisco.)

**  Confederate monuments continue to come down in racial justice protests.  (Not a "protest."  More of rioters committing hate crimes.)

**  Commentary:  How this new monument could move Charleston  forward.  (South Carolina.  The Confederate monument to the Defenders of Fort Sumter has been "vandalized" again.  The author wants monuments to Blacks put up at White Point Garden.)

**  Juneteenth march in Fort Myers draws crowd to commemorate the end of slavery.  (Florida.  And yet, all the parades for the 4th of July were canceled.)

--Old Secesh

Sad to Say, But It Is Time for the SCV and UDC to Ask City, County and State Governments to Remove All Confederate Monuments From Public Property

I have named this blog Civil War II (and had an earlier one called The Second Civil War) because when all this Confederate hatred stuff started after the Charleston murders, it became very apparent that this was a Second Civil War.

Even from the beginning, there was very little chance that our organizations would be able to protect out heritage, what with all the black militancy, their white minion support and all the public servants lacking back bone to stand up against the black tyranny.  There are just too few of us.

This has happened before in Nazi Germany with the mass book burnings and Kristallnacht (The Night of the Broken Glass).

We fought a valiant fight, but time has come to have an unconditional surrender to the forces that are against us.  We had a remote chance to keep them until the police stopped doing their jobs and protecting the statues.  Arrests should have been made.

I doubt that there is a single Confederate statue anywhere on public land that has not been "vandalized" (which actually is a hate crime committed against it) .  The only hope for them now is their total removal and that needs to be done by either the SCV or UDC, but most likely only towns and states have enough money to do it.

We can get that infamous SPLC "list" of targeted Confederate statues and markers to determine which ones remain and need to be removed.    I'm even willing to forego the Confederate protection laws that are in some states.

So, please cities, counties and states of the South, remove all Confederate statues and markers from all public space.  Take them somewhere safe from the Blacks and their white minions.  Do it for "public safety" which seems to be the preferred term used for it lately.

It seems that we have reached the point in the Confederacy where Lee's forces leave Petersburg.

So Sad.  So Sad.  --Really Sad Old Secesh

Protesters Target Confederate Statues in Some Cities-- Part 1: Mississippi, Charleston and Raleigh

From the May 31, 2020, Politico, AP.

Protesters marching about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis also attacked Confederate statues in several cities.  Monuments in Virginia (no surprise there), the Carolinas and Mississippi.  I haven't read the whole article but am sure those "people" in Charlottesville got a chance to spew forth their racist hatred as usual.

The words "spiritual genocide" were sprayed on the Confederate monument on the University of Mississippi campus.  In Charleston, S.C., the base of the "Confederate Defenders" monument was defaced with "BLM" and "traitors."  I have written a lot about this statue in my Civil War blogs.

In Raleigh, N.C., the Confederate monument at the state capitol was marked with an "X" and a shorthand  for a phrase expressing contempt for the police.  The word racist was also written on the monument.

I wonder if these persons committing the looting and hate crimes know that they are doing a whole lot to reelect Donald Trump.

Disgusting Behavior.  --Old Secesh

SPLC Shows Its Racist Tendencies-- Part 2: About Confederate Removal

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), rightfully dates these Confederate-hatred campaign from the horrible attacks on the black congregation at the church in Charleston, S.C., as the June 17, 2015.  That white racist murderer (I won't use his name as I don't use names of any mass murderers) was pictured once holding a Confederate flag.  This caused an uproar that has only recently slowed down because of the virus.

At first, the main objective were Confederate flags, but has since morphed to statues and monuments.  However, I date the big attack to the events leading up to the commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War back to 2010.

According to the SPLC, since then, 138 Confederate symbols, including 58 monuments have been removed from public places across the country.  In addition, they have a master list of nearly 1,800 Confederate symbols across the country.

In 2019, eight Confederate symbols in the U.S., including four monuments, were removed from public spaces.    And five more are in the process of removal.  In addition, five memorials to Confederates were renamed last year.

The SPLC Is Sure Doing Some Gloating.  But, They Need to Know the Hurt It Causes Me When They Do That.  --Old Secesh

No Decision in Tennessee and SCV Defending Good Name of Confederates in Virginia and Louisiana

February 5, 2020

**  Tennessee reps decide not to decide on Confederate  statue.  ((Nathan Bedford Forrest bust in state capitol.)

**  Sons of Confederate Veterans respond to bill advancing in Virginia statehouse.    (This is the bill to give local governments control of war memorials.  If this passes, all Confederate statues in the state will immediately either come down or moved.  Looks like the Democrats in that state are living up to their promise to eradicate the Confederacy.  So much for the former capital of the Confederacy.)

**  Confederate group takes Louisiana parade dispute to Fifth Circuit.  (Court.  That group, the SCV.)

**  Fire damages Charleston's historic Confederate Home and College.  (South Carolina.  Hopefully not because of those who hate the Confederacy.)

--Old Secesh