Why Does It Take Some Folks So Long to Realize Something Offends Them? California, Virginia, North Carolina and U.S. Grant

August 1, 2021

**  Employee no longer working for Elk Grove Unified School District after Confederate flag display.  (California.  Hopefully the same would apply to anyone displaying any BLM materials.)

**  **  110 year old Confederate monument removed from long time home.  (Franklin, Virginia.  Of course, I always have to wonder why it took certain people so long to figure out they were offended by anything that had been around for that long.  Being relocated to a cemetery.  It is the 8th Confederate monument relocated in Hampton Roads since 2020.)

**  Courthouse no place for Confederate monuments.  (North Carolina)

**  Truth-telling exhibit planned for Christiansburg town square.  (Virginia.  It will highlight black history of the county, including slavery.  I'm all for it.  There can never be too much about history, good, bad or ugly.)

**  How Confederate-era superstitions threaten the multiracial Democracy that  Ulysses Grant fought for.  (After that came the era of Jim Crow according to the article.)

--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

Statues Toppled Across U.S. As Rioting Continues (And Many Were Not Even Confederate)-- Part 2: Even U.S. Grant

"In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, protesters sprayed red paint and wrote 'slave owner' on the pedestals before using ropes to bring down the statues and drag them down grassy slopes amid cheers and applause."

Believe me, when this happens,these people are no longer protesting, but rioting and should be arrested for destroying public property.

The statues targeted included a bust of Ulysses Grant, who was the U.S.president after he was the general who beat the Confederates and ended the Civil War."  You'd really think the BLMers would honor and cherish him for that, wouldn't you?

"Protesters (rioters and hate crimers)  said Grant owned slaves.  He married into a slave-owning family, but had no problem fighting to end slavery.  Grant also supported the 1868 Republican platform when he won the presidency which called  for allowing black men to continue voting in the South."

Can You Believe That?  --Old Secesh

Eight Days to Virginia's Confederate Statue Orgy-- Part 1: Times That Try Your Soul

Just eight days until the Confederate Memorial Protection Act is no more and I am sure Virginia is preparing to have one of the biggest parties in state history next Wednesday.

Those statues will be gone and certain people and their minions will be partying hardy.

The Confederate statue situation is really opening the proverbial can of worms.  It might even come back to bite the ones pushing it.  Remember, all it takes is one black person to be offended before things get done.  Hopefully that is a two-way street.

Here is an article from the June 21, 2020, Chicago Tribune  "Statues toppled across the US in unrest" by Olga R. Rodriguez and Jeffrey Collins, AP.

"Protesters tore down more statues across the United States, expanding the razing in a San Francisco park to the writer of America's National Anthem and to the general who won the country's Civil War which ended widespread slavery.  Really, writer of "The Star-Spangled Banner"?  Must be something ol' Kappynapper had something to do with.   Really, U.S. Grant who beat Confederate General R.E. Lee and ended the war in which slaves received their freedom?  Really?

"In Seattle, violence erupted before dawn Saturday in a protest zone largely abandoned by police, where one person was fatally shot and another critically wounded.

"On the East Coast, more statues honoring Confederates who tried to break away from the United States more than 150 years ago were toppled."

And, what about the statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in Oregon?

--Old Secesh

Ten Days to Virginia's Confederate Statue Orgy

Ten days from now, on July 1, the Confederate Statue Protection law in Virginia ends and everywhere, there will be rejoicing among Blacks and their white minions.  The party will be on.  City crews will be out removing the offensive statues, probably starting the first second after midnight.  Or, they will wait until a more convenient time (later) for the party-goers.

For some of us, it will be a very sad time, but one we'll have to live with in today's climate.

Probably the biggest parties will take place in Richmond and Charlottesville.

I had to chuckle as I saw an ad for a new book in one of my Civil War magazines.  The book is titled "An Illustrated Guide to Virginia's Confederate Monuments" by Timothy S. Sedore.  It locates 360 Confederate statues and markers in Virginia and gives a history of each one.

After July 1, you can use it to see WHERE these statues were.

I am reminded of two things that occurred in Nazi Germany prior to World War II.  One was the Nazi book burnings and the other was Kristallnacht.  I saw some videos of these events and it sure reminded me of something we are seeing regularly these days.  Give them a watch and see what you think.

Of course, Virginia is not alone in its depravity.  I may never get to go to the South again.

Did I hear correctly, but did "protesters"  (rioters and hate crimers) really topple and "vandalize" statues of U.S. Grant, Francis Scott Key and Father Junipero Serra in San Francisco Friday night.  In addition, statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were "vandalized" and toppled as well in Oregon this week.

If you notice me using "vandalize" that is because what is happening is not vandalism but a hate crime.

And, someone had the gall to "vandalize" the Arthur Ashe statue on the former Monument Avenue in Richmond.  They wrote "White Lives Matter" on it and Blacks and their white minions are livid with their anger.  How DARE someone  commit a "hate crime" like that?

So, Who's a Neo?  --Old Secesh