MARCH 7, 2023
** Dale Earnhart removed the Confederate flag after a talk with maid.
** Monument protection bill filed in House, Senate. (Florida. And you know whose monuments this is about. What will SPLC say?)
** Could Lake Lanier be renamed? This is what a new federal report says. (Geogia)
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MARCH 8.2023
** Lake Lanier Association says there is no need to change lake's name. (Georgia)
--Old Secesh
OCTOBER 12, 2022
** Bubba Wallace had to Google the Confedrate flag before leading NASCAR ban in 2020. (He was not aware what it stood for.)
** Loudon school board to get a look at segregationist school names. (Virginia)
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OCTOBER 13, 2022
** Renaming Fort Hood explained: Who is General Richard ? (Texas)
** SECDEF approves renaming 9 military bases.
** Fort Rucker renamed after honorary military officer -- check it out. (Enterprise, Alabama. It will be named after Chief Warrant Officer Michael Novosel, Sr., a Medal of Honor recipient and veteran of WW II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and a resident of Enterprise. What greater honor for this renaming. I totally agree with it.)
--Old Secesh
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
** NASCAR to fans: Leave Confederate flags at home. (Me to NASCAR: I left NASCAR at their home. I no longer watch or support this sport. NASCAR is forgetting its roots.)
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
** Supreme Court agrees to hear Newton Civil War statue case in June. (Georgia Supreme Court)
** University of Michigan professor calls Queen 'colonizer' and likens monarch to the Confederacy. (Daily Mail, UK. Well, what can you expect from university professors these days? Actually, I believe a whole lot of this anti-Confederate hysteria can be traced to these learned folks.))
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
** Confederates, socialists, Capitol attackers: a 14th Amendment history lesson. (Washington Post. The attack on our Capitol building still rankles me. I don't care how you feel, you do not attack such an institution.)
** Asheboro officials pass resolution requesting monument relocation. (North Carolina. Well, at least they didn't order a bulldozer to knock it down like in Enfield.)
Those Doggone Colonizers. --Old Secesh
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
** White supremacist arrested at Hollywood Florida street sign protest. (What an idiot.)
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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
** Mayor asks North Carolina governor to declare state of emergency after threats over Confederate monument removal. (Enfield. What an idiot. If other idiots are actually making threats, that is idiocy as well. Have a recall vote and/or next election, don't vote for the idiot.)
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
** 2 years after pledge to rename Confederate schools, students left wondering when. (Montgomery, Alabama)
** Plane pulls Confederate flag over NASCAR All-Star race, (Sorry Bubba.)
All This Proves Is That There Are Idiots on Both Sides of the Issue.
Don't Vote for Idiots!! --Old Secesh
JULY 30, 2022
** Plane pulls Confederate flag over NASCAR All-Star Race. (Now, that's just a horrible, norrible thing.)
** Stephenson County fairgoers upset about wearing of Confederate flags on fairgrounds. (Well, then, they shouldn't wear them if it upsets them. It's a free world, you know.)
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JULY 31, 2022
** Gainesville City Council votes to remove Confederate statue.
** Petition to remove Tampa's massive Confederate flag has over 75000 signatures. (Florida)
--Old Secesh
JULY 28, 2022
** Store owner in Port Dover, Ontario, pulls Confederate flag hats saying she is sorry. (Canada)
** Confederate flag seen at California raceway despite ban.
** CAIR condemns South Carolina town's plan to install Confederate statue. (Really. Islamic people condemning anything with what they do?)
** Southern Delaware town funds museum that flies a Confederate flag.
** Some upset over Florence County Council decision regarding historical monument. (South Carolina. sad rYou think CAIR, BLM, NAACP or SPLC?)
** Williams: Richmond's Confederate monuments are mostly gone.
--Old Secesh
JULY 27, 2022
** Georgetown votes to give Confederate flag-flying museum more than $24K. (Delaware)
** Gov. Youngkin not taking stance on remaining Confederate statues, won't restore those previously removed. (Virginia. Remember the groudswell of anti-Democrat voting that took place on the last election in that state.)
** As Confederate statues come down, here's why SC county voted to put one up at a museum. (Florence County, SC)
** Confederate flags removed from campsites at Sonoma Raceway. (California. I betcha the Bubba is real happy about this.)
** NAACP asking questions after fan flew Confederate flag at Sonoma Raceway. (California. I ask NAACP what their stance is on all the Blacks killing and shooting other Blacks in Chicago?)
--Old Secesh
JUNE 5, 2022
** Confederate flag earpiece at Rock Plaza. (Country singer Trace Adkins wore one at a concert. How horrible of him. Wait till SPLC finds about this. They might put him on a list.)
** NASCAR banned the Confederate flag in 2020. Company insiders explain how it happened. (You know, that Bubba guy who Kappynappered it.)
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JUNE 6, 2022
** La. Senate approves cutting Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee Day from the state's holiday list.
** Alabama state offices close for holiday honoring Jeff Davis. (What will SPLC have to say about that. Probably will put the state on a list.)
--Old Secesh
MAY 28, 2022
** UDC to appeal ruling that Confederate monument belongs to Fiscal Court. (Owensboro, Kentucky)
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MAY 29, 2022
** What a Hero!: New York street named for Confederate general now honors black Vietnam vet. (Atlanta Black Star)
** Hot ticket: NASCAR hub gets sellout for Memorial Day weekend. (Coca Cola 600 in Charlotte. Well, I sure didn't go or even watch it.)
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MAY 30, 2022
** Traitors banished, heroes honored: the Department of Defense gets base renamings right. (NY Daily News. Some more unbiased reporting. But, note, that NOT all were renamed for Blacks.)
Those Who Think NASCAR Was Wrong for Banning the Confederate Flag Should Vote With Non-Attendance. --Old Secesh
APRIL 26, 2022
** Some Alabamians call for end to Confederate Memorial Day. (And, you'll never guess who they might be. Not in a thousand years.)
** Mississippi protesters call for an end to Confederate holiday. (And, again, you'll never guess who they might be. For some reason, there was not an uproar or any protest when the Juneteenth holiday was rammed through.)
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APRIL 27, 2022
** How much will renaming Fort Bragg cost residents of the Fayetteville area?
** What will Fort Bragg's name change cost? And, who's picking up the bill? (One source says signs will cost $2 million. I always say, you want it changes, YOU pay for it.)
** Petaluma Speedway warns fans, drivers against displaying Confederate flags. (As long as BLM stuff is also not allowed. Some also find that offensive.)
Does Being Against Confederate Memorial Day Make You a Racist? --Old Secesh
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
** 3 debate Catawba County Confederate monument. (North Carolina)
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FEBRUARY 28, 2022
** Bubba Wallace documentary details NASCAR's Confederate flag ban. (Yep. This country sure has been mean and hard on him. Reminds me so much of the Kappynapper.)
Hos net worth estimated at $3 million and 31st in NASCAR racing with about a $460,000 salary. Currently makes about $2.2 million after signing with Michael Jordan's Racing team. (Yen.com)
** D.C. park, trail drop name of commissioner who displaced black families.
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MARCH 1, 2022
** How a national movement toppled hundreds of Confederate symbols. (New York Times)
--Old Secesh
DECEMBER 18, 2021
** Students address school board about Confederate flags, start petition for a ban. (Orange County, Va.)
** How a once visible Alabama Confederate monument is now displayed 'among hundreds' pf objects. (Mobile, Alabama. The Raphael Semmes statue is now in the History Museum of Mobile.)
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DECEMBER 19, 2021
** Hearing set on bid to dismiss suit over Confederate memorial. (Tuskegee, Alabama)
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DECEMBER 20, 2021
** The hideous people behind the 'heinously ugly' Confederate statue. (The Daily Beast. That truly ugly Forrest statue near Nashville, Tennessee.)
** Group to hold Confederate monument protest before Jaguars game. (Jacksonville, Florida)
** Bubba Wallace on becoming NASCAR's most-hated driver after noose-incident. (A Kappy-Napper wanna-be.)
--Old Secesh
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
** City reaches agreement with family of A.P. Hill to relocate former Confederate general's remains, monument. (Sad R. It will be removed to Fairview Cemetery in Culpepper. A better way to do this sort of thing than Sad R. usually does. Of course, all sorts of BLM/NAACP obscenities on it.)
** Suit filed over Confederate statue in mostly black Tuskegee. (Alabama)
** Confederate memorial statue to be returned to museum grounds. (Greenville, Texas)
** New capsule installed within pedestal where Confederate General Robert E. Lee statue stood. (Sad R. They gave up looking for the original one. I was hoping that the pedestal would also be taken down. What Sad R. did to it is a shame.)
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
** Black man's statue is the last statue standing on historic street in former capital of the Confederacy. (Sad R. The statue is of tennis great Arthur Ashe. I'd like to see it also moved to somewhere else and no statues be allowed on Monument Avenue.)
** Plane pulls Confederate flag over Richmond raceway. (Sad R.)
All Hail Monumentless Avenue. --Old Secesh
AUGUST 4, 2021
** Fort Benning memorializes soldier lynched 80 years earlier at the post as Army acknowledges an injustice. (Georgia. A horrible thing. Imagine, this was a U.S. soldier who was lynched. Hope they also reopen the case.)
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AUGUST 5, 2021
** Rally to call for removal of Confederate statue, one of the last in Mecklenburg County. (Charlotte, North Carolina.)
** Confederate flags, drones, cigarettes. What you can and can't bring to Go Bowling at the Glen. (NASCAR Race. Got to make Der Bubba happy, you know.)
** Confederate streets in Potomac renamed after black historical figures Geneva Mason and William Dove. (Maryland. Why do all Confederate streets have to be renamed after Blacks?)
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AUGUST 6, 2021
** Community activist receives threatening letter hours before Confederate statue rally. (Charlotte, N.C. That should not have happened.)
** Protesters call for removal of Confederate statue in Cornelius. (North Carolina)
--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
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
** Confederate flags banned at Daytona 500. (But, Der Bubba says his car will have a BLM color scheme. That should be banned as well. BLM means rioting, looting, burning and hate crimes. That Bubba can sure play his Black Card. And I see Chicago's Mr. Wonderful, M.J., is backing Der Bubba. Must be something like his baseball career.)
** NASCAR ramps up its diversity and inclusion on and off the track. (Yep. Let's back looting, rioting, burning and hate crimes.)
** Virginia High Court will take up appeals in Lee statue case.
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FEBRUARY 16, 2021
** Marked by These Monuments tour continues to contextualize Charlottesville's Confederate statues. (Virginia)
** Alabama House lawmakers could take up Confederate memorial bills.
** For 'equality,' NC commission is renewing efforts to take down Confederate monuments. NC Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities)
** 4 people charged after Confederate statue 'tarred and feathered,' painted with clown makeup. (Allendale, Michigan. And the people who did it boasted that they would get arrested. Maybe there's still some justice out there.)
--Old Secesh
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
** Social justice at NASCAR's forefront as new season begins. (Daytona 500. Good old Bubba who played his Black Card. We were at a bar Sunday and they put on the race when it started. You should have heard everyone yelling to turn that ____ off. We'll see if Blacks start coming to the races enough to offset so many who won't go or watch it now.)
** At 94, Fort Worth activist Opal Lee views Juneteenth as her most important lesson. (A black woman. Again, how come there are so many black activists and I don't think many white ones? At what point will Blacks demand the Fourth of July be replaced by Juneteenth?)
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FEBRUARY 14, 2021
** Virginia high court will take up appeals in Lee statue case. (Sad R. I sure hope they hurry up and take it down. What the state and city has allowed those people committing hate crimes to do to it is a downright shame. Shame on the state and shame on Sad R.)
** Democracy Now: White supremacy should also be on trial at Trump's impeachment. (Well, sorry folks. He wasn't found guilty.)
** Here's how NASCAR plans to recover from a tough 2020, starting with the Daytona 500. (Saturday I asked a guy I know who is a huge NASCAR fan when he thought about der Bubba. I have never heard such a flow of invective as I did that night. And, this guy goes to a lot of NASCAR races.)
--Old Secesh
DECEMBER 31, 2020
** Protests over George Floyd death, McGirt decision, jail reforms sweep Fort Smith region in 2020.
** Defense bill will force Fort Hood to change name.
** Work begins to change SC racist store into a racial harmony site.
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JANUARY 1, 2021
** Why removing one Confederate monument in Richmond (Sad R.) is not just about racism -- but safety. (A.P. Hill monument is a traffic hazard.)
** Bubba Wallace led charge in 'pivotal moment' for NASCAR with Confederate flag ban. (Yep. A real Kappy Napper, that Bubba. Playing the old black card. Can't wait to see what happens when NASCAR really opens to fans again. They might just regret Bubba's decision. Anybody besides me who gets grated whenever that Bubba insurance commercial comes on TV or radio? I sure won't be taking out any auto insurance with those guys.)
** Botetourt County Confederate monument likely to move within court square. (Virginia)
** New focus on Williamson County Confederate statue starts in January. (Texas)
--Old Secesh
