The Fate of Non-Confederate People from the Past Who Are Now Convicted of Slavery in Illinois: Stephen A. Douglas and Ninian Edwards

JULY 4, 2020

**  As monuments fall, Confederate carving has size on its side.   (Georgia's Stone Mountain.  And this had best be under tight security as BLM and their folks will try to destroy it.)

**  Letter:  Fort Douglas needs a new name.  (Utah.  Named for U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois.  There are also movements in Illinois to remove his name, statue and anything else connected to him, even a park in Chicago they want renamed Douglass Park (with the two (s)s after Frederick Douglass.)

**  Protesters stay silent for 9 minutes  at former site of Confederate memorial in Fayetteville.  (North Carolina)

**  Rival petitions  seek to remove, keep Cleveland, Tenn.'s  Confederate statue.

**  Mississippi could drop Jim Crow-era statewide voting process.

**  Trump's racism goes beyond racial division.  (I take it they don't like Trump.)

**  Founder of Edwardsville at the center of statue debate.   (Illinois   Ninian Edwards served three terms as Illinois territorial governor and one as governor back in the early days of the state.  Has a statue in Edwardsville and plaza.  He was a slave owner and used his power to protect it.

--Old Secesh

I Can't Keep Up With All This

I feel the United States has reached a real turning point in history right now.  Between the pandemic and all this racial unrest, as Bob Dylan said, "The Times They Are a Changing."

And I surely hope this change will be for the better.  Although at present we could even be headed for a racial war just as much as we might be headed for a better United States.  I guess only time will tell.

This is definitely going to be something for "the rewritten history books."  Students will be wondering who Union forces fought between 1861 and 1865.  They'll just know they fought someone whose name cannot be mentioned because of slavery and their racism.  And that these people were absolutely the worst people ever to live on earth.

And, this is not to say anything about what happened to so many of the earliest U.S. presidents.  Who were they and why are they not mentioned?  School children will still be going to Douglass, D.C., and taking tours up to the top of the Tubman Monument and King Memorial (old Jefferson Memorial).

Anyhow, I am attempting to keep up with all that is happening in this storm surge of revisionism, so this is why I won't be doing much in my other blogs as there is so much to write about here.  If the new Civil war ever stops, that will also be the end of this blog.  I sure enjoyed it in April when the virus had all the BLMers and before George Floyd was killed when I only had four blog entries the whole month.

So, Here Goes.  --Old Secesh