Does Every Replaced Statue and Renamed Road Have to Be of Black People?

JANUARY 10, 2022

**  Tapper:  Confederate statues in Congress are 'Tributes to traitors,' honors 'Political Violence.'  (Jake Tapper is a CNN anchor.)

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JANUARY 11, 2022

**  The Jan. 6  insurrectionists begging for pardons sound  an awful lot like Confederate soldiers.

**  Journalist finds 'astounding' similarities between MAGA rioters and defeated Confederate soldiers.

**  Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune  to replace Confederate general at US Capitol.  (A worthy move, especially since Confederate General Kirby Smith really didn't have that much to do with Florida.  I just fear that every single one of the statues to be replaced in the Capitol will be a black person.)

**  New Orleans  City Council votes to rename Robert E. Lee  Blvd after musician Allen Toussaint.  (Again, an acceptable renaming, but do all roads and streets renamed have to be of black people?)

I'm in favor of some of them being named for Blacks, but definitely not all of them.

Some of the Replaced Statues and Some of the Renamed Roads.   --Old Secesh

South Carolina and Florida Statue in U.S. Capitol

DECEMBER 20, 2021

**  Orangeburg native's  new film to be screened at OCL; community discussion to follow.  (South Carolina.  It's about a Confederate flag that flies by a creamery.    Personally, under the circumstances, I think the flag should be removed.)

**  Pioneering  black educator's  statue to replace  Confederate statue   at the Capitol.  (Florida.  Mary Mcleod Bethune to replace Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith's.  It is okay to replace Smith's with Bethune's.  She is more worthy of it than Smith.  But, let's not always just replace a Confederate statue with that of a black person.)

--Old Secesh

UNC Settlement Voided, Woodfin Doesn't Like Confederate Monuments, That Kirby Smith Statue, More Statue "Vandalism"

February 13, 2020

**  Judge voids UNC's controversial settlement over Confederate statue 'Silent Sam.'  (Unbelievable when contrasted with the lack of arrests and convictions for the people committing the hate crime when the statue was torn down.  Where's the justice?  Now the guilty people who are  so mad about the settlement are getting what they want.)

**  Virginia inches closer to bringing down Confederate statues.

**  Here's what Randall Woodfin had to say about Confederate monuments.  (Birmingham, Alabama, mayor.  He is a black man so doesn't like Confederate monuments.)

**  Photo of students with swastika and Confederate flag roils Riverside school. (Martin Luther King High School, California     I hate to see a swastika alongside a Confederate flag.  It is hard enough to fight this losing war as it is without being compared to that German group.)

**  Protest over confederate statue leads to woman being removed from meeting.  (Lake Mary, Florida--   Statue of Confederate General Kirby Smith which used to stand in the U.S. Capitol and has been removed and headed for the historical museum has people not wanting it there.  Protesters were carrying posters against the statue in a silent protest.  I am wondering what the protester did to be removed by police.  By the way, Fox 51, WOGX, Confederate is spelled with a capital "C."

**  Pair pleads not guilty in Confederate statue vandalism.  (Bentonville, Arkansas--   The two are White.  Again, doing this to a Confederate statue is not vandalism.  It is a hate crime.)

**  Letter:  Confederate soldiers were no heroes.

**  Neo-Confederate attorney accused of mishandling clients' money promoted online trolling, harassment. (With League of the South.  This is from the Southern Poverty Law Center so this organization's anti-Confederate stance is well-known.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: California, a Picnic in Georgia, Smith Statue and Dixie Highway in Florida

February 11, 2020

**  Students at Riverside King High School pose with swastika, Confederate flag.  (Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California.  I hate to have this happen.)

**  Lauren County Confederate group responds after Dublin VA stops annual cookout.  (Dublin, Georgia   The local SCV has had a free picnic for veterans at the Veterans Administration there.  Now the VA says they can't do that unless they leave their Confederate symbols at home.)

**  Lake County protesters say they were kicked out of a meeting for holding signs against Confederate statue.  (Florida   The statue of General Kirby Smith which once stood in the U.S. Capitol  Building is to be relocated to the Lake County Historical Museum.  The Kirby statue is to be replaced with one of Mary McLeod Bethune, a Florida civil rights pioneer.  If the Kirby statue is inside, I don't see what the protesters are upset about.)

**  Tensions surface at Franklin County School Board meeting.  (Virginia.  One board member, a black woman, is still upset that the board refused to prohibit Confederate flags on clothing.)

**  'Dixie Highway' may be renamed in Broward County.  Now public can weigh in.  (Florida    Some are calling it a racist name.)

Poor Old Kirby Smith.  Nobody Wants Him.  --Old Secesh

U.S. Army Bases, Silent Sam, Florida and Virginia

December 23, 2019

**  Fact:  10 U.S. military bases named after Confederate generals.  (Guess what they want done with those names?)

**  12/22 Letters:  UNC Board's Silent Sam deal was another strike at campus 'liberals.'

December 24, 2019

**  Lake County remains divided on Confederate general statue.  (Florida   Gen. Kirby Smith)

**  Why Virginia must amend its laws protecting Confederate statues.

**  Virginia plots a course worth following on Confederate statues.

**  Some residents want to rid Orlando school of Confederate general's moniker.

**  Virginia lawmakers ask governor to remove state's Robert E. Lee  statue from US Capitol.  (One is White, One is Black.)

**  Dolly Parton may replace a Confederate general.

**  North Carolina judge blocks students in Silent Sam  preservation decision with Confederate group.

--Old Secesh