What About the Julian Calendar? How About Magnolias, Stars and Beer? Where to Keep Up with Confederadication (Besides Here), What If You're for It?

AUGUST 3, 2020


**  Frustration grows after Oak Cliff Church says 'Back the Blue' cruise showed up to parking lot uninvited.  (Texas.  The church has a big "Black Lives Matter" banner on it.  The jeep club that came into their parking lot was on a "Back the Blue" cruise.  And, gasp, one of the vehicles had a big ol' CF flying.  Of course, if you back BLM you do not back the police.  The church apparently is a black church.  The cruise did not have permission to be there so I have to agree with the church.  They should not have stopped there.)

** Mark Drought:  After we demolish the statues, do we move on to  changing the calendar.  (Believes Confederate flags and statues belong in museums.  But men like Jefferson and Washington should be looked at for what they did for the country as well as being slave owned.  The calendar comment was about our present calendar used being the named after Julius Caesar, a genocidal monster who killed hundreds of thousands of Gauls.  Again, when do they stop?)

**  Public ideas for Mississippi flag: Magnolias, Stars, Beer.  (How about Mardi Gras since it started there?)  Or "Mississippi Queen" or "Proud Mary?)

**  Again, if you want to really keep up with all this Confederadication a good place to do it would be the the Fort Worth (Tx) Star-Telegram.  They have lots of articles about it.  If you are all for Confederadication read the New York Times, Washington Post or watch CNN.  Their articles and reports are considerably slanted.

Where Will All This Confederadication End?  --Old Secesh

Asheville, the Richmond/Charlottesville of North Carolina (This Is Not a Compliment Either). Why Black People Have Been Injured or Killed By the Police.

JULY 14, 2020


**  Yes, take down the Confederate statues.  But the founders are different.  (Washington Post.  Well, at least they are putting the Founders in a different category.)

**  The most 2020 protest just happened in Fort Mill.   But what will the town do?  (South Carolina.  It was done by a virtual meeting.  Letters were written and read by city council.  It was not violent.  Sorry BLM.)

**  Confederate monument removed from Buncombe County Courthouse.  (Asheville, N.C.    Figures, Asheville is the Sad Richmond/Charlottesville of North Carolina.)

**  Trump asked  why Black people  have been killed by police:  'So are white people'.  (Well, true.  Of course, the real big reason why some Blacks are injured or killed by the police is that they break the law and then resist arrest on the rare occasion they are caught.  Their chances of a bad outcome in this situation drop greatly when they cooperate.  In other words, cooperate with the police if they stop you.  Try to out-polite them if you can. Watch Chris Rock's "Eight Ways Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By the Police" video.  If you follow his advice, you probably will not have a bad problem.)

**  Anthropologist hates Confederate statues but isn't eager to dump them.  They can teach a meaningful lesson.

Seriously, Watch That Chris Rock Video.  --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: South Carolina, Univ. of Texas, JEB Stuart and Raleigh

JULY 13, 2020


**  Legal change could be slow for controversial  SC memorials.   The Heritage Act requires legislature to remove statues.  John C. Calhoun statue taken down.  Wade Hampton statue and others might be coming down.

**  University of Texas  making changes after  Black athlete demands; football field renamed.  Jo Jamail Field at Darrell K. Royall Stadium has been renamed the Campbell/Williams Field after their Heismann Award winners Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams.

There was also a movement to get rid of the "Eyes of Texas" saying it had racial undertones.  It will be kept with maybe some word changes.  I saw the words to it and couldn't pick out anything racial about it.

**  Fort Worth Star-Telegram keeps up with the Confederadication better than any newspaper I've seen.  So, if you want more information, go there.

** Descendant of JEB Stuart  wants statue at his birthplace.  (You know the statue they took down in Sad Richmond a short time ago.)

**  Workers removing statue of antebellum North Carolina chief justice.  (Raleigh   Thomas Ruffin.  This was done because of his opinion that overturned  the conviction of a slave owner for shooting a slave in the back after refusing his orders.

--Old Secesh