APRIL 24, 2023
** State offices closed today for Confederate holiday. (Alabama. Don't tell SPLC.)
** Groups again call for cancellation of Stone Mountain Confederate event. (Georgia. Wonder who wants the cancellation.)
** Descendants of Robert E. Lee and those he enslaved reconcile at Arlington House. (Virginia)
** Alabama and Mississippi mark Confederate Memorial Day.
Well, If You Do Not Like Confederate Memorial Day, Don't Ce;ebrate It. --Old Secesh
APRIL 21, 2023
** Confederate History Month Celebration will be held this Saturday. (Maryland)
** Confederate monument stolen from ENC cemetery. (Greenville, N.C.)
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APRIL 22, 2023
** Trial over Charlottesville's statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee scheduled for Thirsday. (Virginia)
** Flowers planted at location of former downtown Confederate monument. )Wilmington, N.C. St least they didn't put up a monument honoring George Floyd.)
--Old Secesh
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
** Sculpture of Civil Rights leader to replace Robert E. Lee at Capitol. (Statue will be of Barbara Rise Johns. She is deserving, but why must all statue replacements be of black people?)
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FEBRUARY 4, 2023
** Santa Fe woman arrested after Confederate flag dispute with her neighbor. (She took the flag down.)
** Tennessee Historical Commission to review Nashville request to remove Confederate statue.
** Street honoring KKK leader renamed after student-led effort. (Long Isdland, New York. named after Paul Lindner who was also a great titan of the New York Klan. Renamed Acorn Way.)
--Old Secesh
JANUARY 22, 2023
** Metro Detroit prosecutor sparks outrage with Robert E. Lee birthday post. (How low will they go?)
** For Richmond, a compelling new chapter. (Well, I won't see it as I never plan to go there again.)
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JANUARY 23, 2023
** Editorial: Texas' Confederate day honors traitors who fought for slavery. (Indiana Gazette. Shows what they know in Indiana.)
--Old Secesh
JANUARY 2, 2023
** The history and controversy behind the Confederate flag.
** Editorial: Expelling Confederate symbols from the military academy. (West Point. Now we're being EXPELLED? Really?
** Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol to announce sculptor. (Virginia. To make a sculpture of Barbara Rose Johns Powell to replace the one of Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol. Of course, the new sculpture is of a worthy black person. BUT, why do all replaced Confederate statues have to be of Blacks? Aren't there some worthy white folks out there?)
It's an Expelling Kind of Thing, You Know. --Old Secesh
NOVEMBER 5, 2022
** Spartanburg County: Pole with SC flag that replaced Confederate on I-85 still in violation. (South Carolina)
** Confederate flag deters Delaware Democrats from Return Day tradition.
** This professor was fired for her political speech: Now, she's getting her job back. (Collins College. Supported removing Confederate monuments.)
** Superintendent says MPS will rename Lee, Davis high schools by December. (Montgomery, Alabama)
--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
AUGUST 11, 2022
** High price tag to rename 'Confederate' bases.
** Confederate groups may once again stall Charlottesville's plans fot the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee. (Virginia)
** How many Texas schools still have Confederate-linked names? (Sounds like a job for the good folks at SPLC.)
** Judge warns Newton chairman not to remove Confederate statue. (Covington, Georgia)
** Georgetown mayor voids check to historical society over c(C)onfederate flag controversy. (Delaware. )
--Old Secesh
JULY 19, 2022
** Student says she is fighting racism atW.Va. school, where some fly Confederate flags.
** Confederate street renaming: Next steps for Fairfax City residents. (Virginia. What black person will they rename them for?)
** Rise of the Republican Confederacy. (And to think that it used to be a Democrat Confederacy.)
** How Robert E. Lee and Booker T. Washington became educators dedicated to rebuilding a war-torn United States. (Epoch Times. Go figure that one.)
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JULY 20, 2022
** How many Texas schools still have Confederate-linked names. (Go as SPLC, they'll know. They have those lists, you know.)
** Richmond tore down its statues -- and revealed a new angle to history. (Washington Post, of course. How to be proud you're a racist.)
** Judge dismisses lawsuit that aimed to return Confederate monuments to Madison cemetery. (Madison, Wisconsin)
--Old Secesh
JULY 1, 2022
** Charlotte's Stonewall Street renamed in honor of former black community. (North Carolina. Now named Brooklyn Village Avenue. Why does everything Confederate have to be renamed for Blacks?)
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JULY 2, 2022
** Virginia police retract 'false' 2020 tweet about teargassing protesters near Confederate statue. (Sad R. Near the Robert E. Lee statue. Said the proesters weren't violent. From most of the videos I saw, they sure didn't look much peaceful.)
** Old house of a Confederate is racist; NC Green Party cries foul. (I done heard it all now. So there are racist houses. What does a house have to do to be racist?)
Woke Me Up When You Go. --Old Secesh
JUNE 28, 2022
** Mayor-elect says removing c(C)onfederate symbols 'not a priority.' (August, Georgia. And he is a black man. Come on Yahoo!! Confederate is a proper name!!)
** Augusta wrestles with removing c(C)onfederate symbols. (What's with Augusta and confederate?)
** Putting Confederate memorial up for a vote has support. (Augusta, Georgia. I fully agree with that.)
** Plans to melt down Robert E. Lee statue on hold while lawsuit plays out. (Charlottesville, Virginia)
** Confederate street renaming vote in Fairfax City deferred until July 12. (Virginia)
** Fairfax Co. supervisor moves to change district name from Lee to Francona. (Virginia)
--Old Secesh
JUNE 20, 2022
** Lots of Juneteenth articles.
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JUNE 21, 2022
** What happened to the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was in front of Lee High? (Montgomery, Alabama. It was messed up during the Floyd/BLM riots in 2020.)
** SC recognizes Confederate Memorial Day, but not Juneteenth. (So?)
** c(C)onfederate holiday removal signed by Edwards. (Louisiana. Governor John Bel Edwards.)
--Old Secesh
MARCH 27, 2022
** Mitch O'Connell's Confederate flag photo resurfaces after he announces he will oppose Kentanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation.
** According to this rumor, a handful of US states designated "Confederate Memorial Day" as....
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MARCH 28, 2022
** Firestone exhibition of Jewish American artists featuring works by Confederate soldiers canceled. (At Princeton University. There were two works of art by Jews who were Confederates. Now, you know you can't have something like that to upset certain people.)
** Memphis unveils monument honoring suffrage movement leaders. (Tennessee. Women's right to vote. Hopefully, they will remember that all the leaders have to be Blacks. It wouldn't do to honor a white person you know.)
** NOLA says bye bye to Robert E. Lee and Hello to Allen Toussaint Avenue. (New Orleans. Of course, Allen Toussaint is a black person.)
--Old Secesh
MARCH 22, 2022
** Confederate group gets personal in latest bid to restore Robert E. Lee bust. (Fort Myers, Florida)
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MARCH 23, 2022
** Public sounds off at Confederate monuments during city council meeting. (Jacksonville, Florida)
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MARCH 24, 2022
** Confederate monuments still roil people in Jacksonville. (Florida)
** As a civil rights marker goes up in Centennial Park, a Confederate monument's fate rests with the state. (Tennessee. Again, why do black monuments and markers replace Confederate ones?)
** Gaston County monument back in court Monday. (North Carolina)
--Old Secesh
MARCH 22, 2022
** Removed Confederate monument sets milestone in Maryland. (The "Talbot Boys" statue. The last Confederate monument on public space in the state. A coalition raised the money to remove it which is exactly what should always be done for statue removal. The folks who want it done should PAY for its removal. It is going to a Civil War battlefield.)
** Confederate statue condemned at court hearing. (Virginia. A current trial of a black man is going on.)
** Duvall County activists protest to show support of removing Confederate monuments. (Jacksonville, Florida. Again, how do you get to be an activist. Do you have to go to college? There sure seem to be an awful lot of black activists.)
** Coalition pushes to return Robert E. Lee bust to downtown Fort Myers. (Florida)
--Old Secesh
MARCH 21, 2022
** Will this predominately white town remove its Confederate monument? (The people should vote on it. If there are a lot of "woke" whites voting along with the Blacks, then they should have enough votes to remove it.)
** Ketanji Brown Jackson fought injustices while at Harvard. (Supreme Court nominee. Someone had a Confederate flag in their dorm window. She objected to it. Wonder how she feels about a BLM flag? The fact that she was the one and only one considered for the job makes me wonder if there were any white men also qualified for the job who might have been overlooked because of their sex and race. Makes you wonder.)
** Push to bring Robert E. Lee bust back to downtown Fort Myers. (Florida)
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MARCH 22, 2022
As you may well imagine, there are lots and lots of stories out now about the renaming of the bases.
** New plan proposed to remove Jacksonville's remaining Confederate monuments. (Florida)
--Old Secesh
