APRIL 20, 2023
** It's time for Mississippi to end Confederate Heritage Month. (Upworthy)
** State Supreme Court grants cert in Sons of Confederate Veterans' suit to prevent removal of monument.
** White Tennessee lawmakers speak out for insurrection in honoring Confederate history. (How do black Tennessee lawmakers stand on it? Who's being racist?)
** Oops! Fort Hood rebranding will have to wait due to typography error. (Texas. A typographical error, wrong font.)
--Old Secesh
AUGUST 12, 2022
** What happened to Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue? (Virginia. It has been donated to a black museum to be melted down. Obscene.)
** 120 House Republicans vote to keep statues of Confederates in the Capitol. (Daily Beast. They were outvoted.
** Report: It will cost $5 M to rename Georgia's Fort Benning.
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AUGUST 13, 2022
** U.S. Capitol finally replaces Confederate statue with black female leader. (Daily Beast. Seems like a "Woke" thing to do. Is there a law that all Confederate statues in the Capitol be replaced with one for a black person?)
** Delaware NAACP condemns Town of Georgetown for pushing ahead on funding museum flying Confederate flag. (Now, that really does surprise me.)
--Old Secesh
MAY 30, 2022
** Mainers rally against Confederate flag used in Memorial Day parade. (New Gloucester, Maine. Sorry, but Confederate soldiers were American soldiers. Go over there and stand with Kappynapper.)
** Kentucky law still recognizes Confederate Memorial Day. Why?
** The Civil War: The one we fought, the one we're still fighting. (No kidding!)
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JUNE 1, 2022
** Breaking: Confederate statue removed Tuesday morning, base still remains. (Owensboro, Kentucky)
** Rep. McEachin praises push to change names of Virginia bases currently named for Confederates. (Virginia. Did he just become aware of this? Looks like he would have said something about it sooner.)
--Old Secesh
MAY 3, 2022
** After initial push, city's effort to eliminate Confederate names loses momentum. (Austin, Texas)
** Devon Henry has removed Confederate statues all over the South. (Sad R. He is the one who removed most of the the Sad R. ones. I did not know he had removed other ones than just Sad R. In the process, he has made quite a bit of money and being a big supporter of the black mayor of Sad R. didn't hurt either. He is the one who has had threats made on his life mentioned in the previous post.)
** Daviess Co. judge rules on the future of Confederate statue on courthouse's lawn. (Kentucky. It can be moved.)
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MAY 4, 2022
** Resolution to recognize Civil War event approved by Jefferson City Council. (Missouri)
** Rep. Madison Cawthorn goes to court to stop ballot challenge, citing a pro-Confederate law. (North Carolina)
--Old Secesh
JANUARY 7, 2022
** Richmond, Va., awards contract to remove Confederate monument pedestals. (Sad. R. As I pointed out before, a close friend of the mayor started a company just to remove Confederate stuff and stands to reap a whole lot of money. Ain't politics great. Right, buddy.)
** 'That was a blow' Cory Booker describes seeing Confederate flags on Jan. 6th. (A black senator from New Jersey. He didn't like it at all.)
** Makeshift noose and c(C)onfederate flags told her this was something different. (Cori Bush, U.S. Rep. from Missouri. A black woman. I don't know, but I didn't see many Confederate flags in the crowd. There were a whole lot of U.S. and Trump flags though. I also did not see any nooses. Sounds a bit Bubba W. to me.)
--Old Secesh
Continued from July 6, 2021.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga) said the Confederate statues send a message to black people that their lives are not valued because those being honored "stood for the proposition that you were less than human."
"It's personally an affront to me as a Black man to walk around and look at these figures and see them standing tall, looking out as if they were visionaries and they did something that was great. No, they did something that was very hurtful to humanity," Johnston said.
Mr. Johnston is a black man. Of course, slavery was not the sole reason for the Confederacy. There were other pressing points as well.
But, I do agree the Confederate statues should be removed from the Capitol. These men did fight against the United States.
--Old Secesh
JULY 2, 2021
** Iowa Congressional delegation split on purging Confederate, white supremacist statues from US Capitol. (Guess who voted to do away with them>)
** Settlement not reached in lawsuit to remove Confederate Gen. Alfred Mouton. (Louisiana)
** Editorial: Move, don't destroy Confederate statues.
** Looking back: Stonewall Jackson statue removed from Richmond's Monument Avenue one year. (And the really sad thing is that new statues (and only of black people) will be put up in their place.
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JULY 3, 2021
** Community demands firing of employees who had Confederate flag in Elk Grove Unified School District van. (California. My question is this. Does community here refer to Blacks and their white minions or the whole community. Also, had it been a Black Lives Matter flag in the van, would that have been a problem?)
** Talbot officials ask court to dismiss lawsuit seeking removal of Confederate monument. (Maryland)
--Old Secesh
From the June 30, 2021, by Kevin Freking, AO.
The U.S. House voted Tuesday to approve a bill that would remove from the U.S. Capitol a bust of Roger Taney, the U.S. Chief Justice best known for a pro-slavery decision, as well as statues of Jefferson Davis and others who served in the Confederacy.
The bill passed 285-10. A similar bill last year passed the House, but failed to get through the Senate.
Of course, most of the voting was along party and racial lines. Most Democrats and Blacks voted to remove them.
This is one of the least surprising votes ever to happen in that august body.
Now, personally I don't have a problem with the removal of the Confederate statues since they did fight the Union and as such gave up any right to a statue in their honor.
The sad thing though, is that I am sure most of the statues will be replaced with those of Blacks. I'm okay with some being of Blacks, but come on, aren't there some whites that are also deserving.
The Taney bust is going to be replaced by one for a black man.
--Old Secesh
JUNE 29, 2021
** In new strategy to move Mouton statue, city argues that Confederate group no longer exists. Lafayette, Louisiana)
** Possible name change ahead for Fort Benning. (Georgia)
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JUNE 30, 2021
** House votes to purge Confederate statues from the Capitol. (Imagine the New York Times calling it a purge.)
** New billboard calls for removal of Georgia's Confederate monuments.
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JULY 1, 2021
** Savannah City Council to consider removing Confederate busts in next steps for Civil War Memorial. (Georgia)
--Old Secesh
JUNE 28, 2021
** Revealed: neo-Confederate group includes military officers and politicians. (The Guardian. They are calling the Sons of Confederate Veterans group neo-Confederate. No kidding. Their ancestors fought for the Confederacy. That is the only way you can become a member. Now, I realize calling SCV neo-Confederates is akin to calling someone a neo-Nazi and puts a person in bad light, which is exactly why the ultra-left, or neo-Marxists, or whatever you want to call them, use this term. I get tired of the other side lumping Confederates with Nazis. Don't you?)
** Local government notes: Madison Co commissioners meet, A-CC relocates confederate (Confederate) monument. (Athens, Georgia. Looks like WGAU would know better. The Athens Confederate monument was relocated to the Civil War's Battle of Barber Creek.
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JUNE 29, 2021
** House votes to remove Confederate statues and replace Roger B. Taney bust. (No surprise there at all. How else would you expect a Democrat to vote. I imagine Nancy is beside herself smiling.)
** New billboard presses for removal of Confederate monument from Georgia Capitol lawn. (John B. Gordon statue. Of course, this brought to you by the good folks at SPLC. Maybe they should be spending their money on finding out why Blacks in Chicago keep shooting and killing other Blacks.)
** Confederate soybeans and the legacy of racism in American agriculture. (Soybeans? Really? Those racist plants!!)
--Old Secesh
JUNE 26, 2021
** Controversial confederate (Confederate) statues removed a year ago, what now. (Come on WWAY!! Confederate.)
** House to vote next week on removing Confederate statues from Capitol. (Of course, with a Democratic majority, how do you think it will turn out?)
** Athens Confederate monument being reassembled in new location. (Georgia)
** The Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery. Here's what did.
** Which US military bases are named after Confederate generals?
** Fort Benning will be renamed. Here are some options that are on the table. (Possible names: Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr. Korean War Medal of Honor winner; Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, Vietnam War; George C. Marshall, WW II. At least they are not looking at all black names.)
--Old Secesh
MARCH 20, 2021
** So-called Confederate monument bill passes House after two-hour debate. (West Virginia. Did we win one? How'd that happen?)
** New commission on renaming Confederate bases gets early makeover. (Biden administration has replaced Trump appointees. Politics anybody?)
** County officials say they will deal with Confederate issue. (Lake County, Florida.)
** Vance Monument: Asheville to take final vote on obelisk honoring racist Confederate governor. (North Carolina. You can kind of tell whose side the newspaper is on with that headline. City council will vote on it so it is a goner. Too bad they don't have the courage to actually put it up for a people's vote. But, those are typical Democratic, BLMer tactics.)
** NASCAR truck driver Bill Lester on why the sport's Confederate flag ban "floored" him.
** Maryland General Assembly votes to trash state's pro-Confederate official state song.
--Old Secesh
JANUARY 9, 2021
** Confederate battle flag an unnerving sight in Capitol. (New York Times)
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JANUARY 10, 2021
** Confederate monument in Elizabeth City needs to go, but has no takers. (Elizabeth City, North Carolina. It has already been voted on to be removed.)
** Confederate Battle flag in the Capitol: A 'jarring' first in US history. (New York Times)
** Letter: Fort Bragg bigger than Confederate name.
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JANUARY 11, 2021
** Editorial: Botetourt County faces an unusual debate over its Confederate monument. Here's why. (Virginia)
** AOC condemns Confederate flag raised outside Jewish Heritage Museum. (New York City)
** The Confederate flag made it deeper into Washington this week than during the US Civil War.
--Old Secesh
JANUARY 5, 2021
I was listening to a radio station this morning and heard that the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin, is preparing for riots and that the state governor has called out some 500 National Guard soldiers for that possibility. The county is determining whether the officer who shot the black man should be tried.
Should the decision be to try him there will be no problem.
But, if the decision is not to try him, BLM and their white minions will be out there rioting, burning and looting. It is what they do best.
Look at all the preparations that were made in major U.S. cities during the presidential election. Had trump won, BLM would have been out there rioting, burning and looting. That is what they do.
In my opinion, anyone who backs this group supports rioting, looting and burning.
Of course, it's winter in the Midwest right now. Maybe they'll wait for nicer weather.
** I just had to chuckle a bit when the U.S. House Speaker, a noted supporter of BLM had her house vandalized because of the relief paychecks. Wonder who vandalized her home? It was Confederate statues or paintings.
Oh, Well. You Know How They Get When They Don't Get Their Way. --Old Secesh
DECEMBER 29, 2020
** Wish.com removes most Confederate merchandise, citing policy against hate, but still sells items, but it still sells items glorifying dictators. (Yep.)
** A poet reflects on how we reckon -- or how we fail to reckon -- with the legacy of slavery.
** House overwhelmingly votes to override Trump's veto of the defense bill that he refused to sign because it renames Confederate bases. (Big surprise that a bunch of Democrats would do something like that.)
** Plywood covers part of statue as 'Sylva Sam' awaits modifications. (Jackson County, N.C. The statue will remain. But the Confederate flag on the base and some words will be removed. I'm okay with compromise. Of course with BLM, there can be no compromise.)
** Statues do not teach history.
--Old Secesh
DECEMBER 7, 2020
** Virginia Military Institute removes Confederate statue. (That of Stonewall Jackson. Talk about a crime. So sad.)
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DECEMBER 8, 2020
** Virginia Military Institute begins work to remove prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas Stonewall' Jackson. What next, dishonor those VMI cadets who fought and died at the Battle of New Market?)
** Patriotic texts ordered at Confederate statue before it goes. (Louisiana)
** Park trail named after Confederate general Jeb Stuart renamed. (Montgomery County, Maryland.)
** Congress plans to strip Confederate names from US bases, including Fort Bragg.
** House approves defense bill amid Trump veto threat.
** North Carolina country commissioners vote to remove monument.
--Old Secesh
OCTOBER 16, 2020
** House passes $740B bill that would strip Confederate names from military bases.
** Northhampton supervisors hold hearing on Confederate monument. (Virginia)
** 100+ Confederate symbols removed in the wake of George Floyd's death. (SPLC. The old list makers used as THE source for Confederate Hit List. Still waiting for their list on BLM "demonstrations" that turned into riots with looting, burning, attacks on police and hate crimes. Come on, guys. You can do it!!)
** Which state has removed the most Confederate symbols during nationwide protests? (Virginia is first with 40, North Carolina second with 18 and Texas with 10. No other state is in double digits.)
** 'A difficult challenge': Judge gives approval to remove Confederate statue in Lexington. (North Carolina)
** Lexington mayor releases statement before Confederate monument court proceeding. (North Carolina)
** Virginia judge dismisses suit challenging removal of 'neutral' Civil War marker, obelisk.
** Midland Board chooses new name for Robert E. Lee High School. (Texas)
--Old Secesh
