Enslavers: A New WWM Word?

DECEMBER 31, 2022

**  Art at the Capitol honors 140 enslavers and 13 Confederates.  (U.S. Capitol.  Seventeen are depictions of Washington, 9 of Jefferson and 5 of Madison.  Also 15 depictions of Columbus.  Without these folks, I don't even know that we would have a country here.  

**  So, ENSLAVERS is the new WWM word for slaveowners.

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JANUARY 1, 2022

**  West Point begins removal of Robert E. Lee, Confederate paraphernalia.  (PARAPHERNALIA?  Really.)

Enslavers?  Paraphernalia?  --Old ?

Dems Up to Old Tricks, Is a Confederate Flag Racist? Florida, Virginia

OCTOBER 10, 2021

**  Hoyer, Democrats press Senate to act on removing statues of Confederates, racists from Capitol.  (Can you even imagine a the Democrats, the Party of Jim Crow, doing something like that.  Maybe they want to make amends?)

**   Student suspended for  flying Confederate flag; mom says it's not racism, but history.  (Minnesota.  As long as students with anything BLM also get suspended.)

**  Bill would strike  holidays from state calendar.  (Florida.  Would remove Lee and Davis birthdays and Confederate Memorial Day.  Also would remove any provision against  mutilation or  disrespect for anything Confederate.  (Of course, it is those wily old Democrats again.)

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

**  Confederate statue at Washington County  Courthouse to move due to construction.  (Virginia.  Think it will come back?)

**  Goodbye Columbus?  Those urging  the explorer be thrown overboard need to do their homework.  (Columbus too?)

--Old Secesh

Black Lives Matter Shows Their True Colors at the Riot and Attack on Chicago Police at Columbus Statue in Grant Park

Yesterday while searching for information on the second round of Black Lives Matter riots and looting in Chicago, I came across a very interesting video put out by the Chicago Police Department about the riot that Black Lives Matter had back a few weeks ago in Chicago at the Columbus statue in Grant Park.

You can find it on YouTube under the title "Chicago police release video footage of protest at Columbus statue."  This video is over 30 minutes long, but the main action started about two minutes into it.  Fox News has a 6-minute video of the same thing showing the riot.

If you ever had any doubts about where BLM stands as far as guilt in the rioting and looting (no looting occurred here as it was mostly violence directed against the police) this video might help you make up your mind.

The police were surrounded.  The BLMers used regular military tactics and surrounded the police inside a concrete fence erected around the statue.  They threw frozen water bottles and fired fireworks at the police.  49 officers were injured with 18 requiring hospitalization.  Just 12 BLMers were arrested and there should have been a lot more.

Some of the rioters were upset that the police hurt them, especially that young girl who claimed one cop knocked out some of her teeth.  That meant she was on the front line of the rioters.  Hey, lady, you get in the middle of a riot, guess what?  You just might get hurt.

At the news conference following the video, one of the media people just wanted to know about the girl getting hurt.  He wasn't interested at all in what had happened to the police.  This is also a problem.  The media won't place the blame on BLM for these riots and looting.  Most of the time they won't even call it a riot, just a demonstration.

This Anarchy Needs to Stop.  The Police Need To Be Allowed to Make Arrests and If the Rioter Resists or Others Around Resist, Police Should be Allowed to Use Whatever Force Necessary Needed to Stop Them.  (I was watching the looting from Monday morning and the police just stood there watching it going on.)

--Old Secesh

The Problem With Police. Confrontations Can Lead to Bloodshed. Was This a Case of Mistaken Identity?

AUGUST 4, 2020


**  Black Dallas church alleges intimidation by pro-police rally.  (I wrote about this earlier and have to say the church has a point in this matter.  But putting up a BLM banner means they're picking a side.)

**  What's the problem with the police?  Start with the negative reporting about them.  (Definitely.  I was just watching the Chicago police release video footage of protests at Columbus statue which shows what those officers had to endure, 49 police injured with 18 hospitalized.  Then during questions, all one reporter harped on was the black activist female who was injured by a cop that night.  Also the media being reluctant to call a protest that gets out of hand a riot as well as not saying these riots and looting take place during BLM activities.)

**  Man who pointed a sniper rifle at crowd at Weatherford protests arrested, deputies say.  (Well, first off, those "protests" were violent by then, so actually more of a riot.  This is what scares me the most as there will always be armed persons on both sides and all it takes is one little thing to cause that to erupt in bloodshed.  The police did the right thing in arresting him.)

**  East Atlanta's Gen. McPherson  monument mysteriously damaged.  (Georgia  Who do we know that goes around attacking statues these days?  Oh yes.  And Gen. McPherson was a Union officer, not a Confederate one.  And the monument is located where he was killed during the Civil War.  Watch the video of Lenora Scott.  She is quite a wonderful lady.)

--Old Secesh

Black On Black Murders and Shootings in Chicago-- Part 2: A Very Bloody 4th of July Weekend

Last month, July, 578 people were shot in the city -- at least 58 of them juveniles, including a 9-year-old black boy killed by gunfire Friday (July 31) night as he played outside on the Near North Side of the city.  July's youngest shooting victim was a 3-year-old black girl who was struck while riding in her family's car in South Shore.

A day before that, the city saw the largest mass shooting in recent memory when 15 black people were shot outside a funeral home in Gresham on the South Side.

The month opened with a bloody Fourth of July weekend that saw 79 people shot across the city, 5 of them fatally.

Eleven of those victims were minors, and two of them -- 13-year-old Amaria Jones and 7-year-old Natalia Wallace -- were killed.

Again, most of the killed and wounded have been Blacks.  And they were shot or killed by other Blacks.

Meanwhile, BLM and their white minions were having their own violent riot with police at the Christopher Columbus statue, which they demand to be taken down.  Some eighteen police were injured by them.  (By the way, the statue was taken down.)

All the while, their fellow Blacks were shooting and killing each other.  Exactly how important are Black lives to an organization named Black Lives Matter?

You Just Have to Wonder.  Very Confusing Messages Here. --Old Secesh

Welcome to Our World, Americans of Italian Descent-- Part 2

JULY 24, 2020

Part 1 was March 2.


**  Two statues of Christopher Columbus removed overnight for "public safety" in Chicago.  BLMers and their white minions attacked police last Friday and since then it has become a flash point with the rioters.

People were injured, especially the cops who had at least 14 injured from fireworks fired at them and frozen water bottles thrown at them.

The Italian community is up in arms about this.

Somebody needs to do something about this BLM movement as it is all about looting, rioting, arson and confrontation.  These are really bad people.  When will they stop?  I can tell you how to stop them.

Like I Said, Welcome to Our World.  --Old Secesh

The Navy, Marines, Base Names, Columbus Beheaded, NASCAR and Flags

These are headlines from various media sources.

June 12, 2020

**  Naval Academy board chair calls for removal of Confederate names from buildings.

**  US Navy joins Marines in removal of Confederate flag.

**  Trump says he  won't consider renaming  military bases named for Confederate generals.

**  KY senator wants to replace Confederate statue with one of first black Navy diver.

**  Confederates toppled, Columbus beheaded:  Protesters are  ripping down controversial statues.  (In other words, ones they don't like.  And when they topple or behead they cross the line between protester to criminal.)

**  Congress could force name change at bases honoring Confederate generals.

**  NASCAR bans Confederate flag from all  events, including races.  (Hard to see the impact at this point since no spectators are allowed.  However, hopefully those who like the flag will voice their feelings through nonattendance.)

**  Historical figures reassessed after George Floyd's death.

**  More than 2K sign petition to ban Confederate flag from Ebensburg-sanctioned events.  (Pennsylvania)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Nikki Haley, Columbus, Suing and Joe

December 8, 2019

**  Haley:  Killer 'hijacked' Confederate flag meaning for some.

**  Confederate group sues Columbus mayor, councilors, over removal of flags at Lynnwood Cemetery.  (Ohio)

**  T. Greg Doucette  threatens to sue Sons of Confederate veterans , demands group donate $2.5 million to black UNC students.

**  Texas is no place for Confederate symbols.  (Houston Chronicle editorial)

December 9, 2019

**  Biden praises  group who 'display the Confederate flag' as 'fine people' in resurfaced video.  Back when Sen. Carole Mosely-Braun (a black woman from Illinois) wanted to deny the charter to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

**  How the Confederate battle flag ended up in states like Vermont.:  Historians explain.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack, October 14, 2019: And Don't Forget The Indian Confederacy

Oct. 14, 2019, Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  Indigenous history:  The Iroquois Confederacy.    I wonder if they will come under attack because of the "C" word.

**  7 Rebels' gravesites designated cemetery.    Real Civil War history.

**  Civil War historian to speak at Thomas Entrepreneural Hub.

**  Ford dealership in South Carolina goes full Confederate.

**  Glenn Boyce's Ole Miss:  An inside look at the new chancellor's involvement....

**  Hail Columbus the Italian:  His statue stands tall for a great people.  Now of course, people ar looking at his statues.

--Old Secesh