APRIL 26, 2023
** Mississippi and Alabama celebrate Confederate Memorial Day as efforts to abolish holiday stall.
** New Florida bill would empower defenders of Confederate monuments.
** Nikki Haley compares abortion divide to Confederate flag debate.
** CAIR repeats call for elimination of Confederate Memorial Day holiday in Alabama. (Again. Islamists weighing in on the issue?)
I Always Have To Smile When I See CAIR Piping In. --Old Secesh
APRIL 7, 2023
** Florida Senate advances proposal to protect Confederate monuments.
** Florida Senate bill will let people sue over removing, damaging Confederate monuments.
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APRIL 8, 2023
** Group refiles lawsuit over removal of Confederate monument outside Gwinnett Historic courthouse. (Georgia. Sons of Confederate Veterans.)
--Old Secesh
MARCH 28, 2023
** Why we should melt Confederate statues. (Alta Journal. How woke.)
** Army: Cost of renaming Confederate-named military bases has nearly doubled. (Last year, the Renaming Commission figured it would cost $21 million. Now it is $39 million. Again, we all know who should be paying for it.)
** Florida bill if passed would stop local governments from removing monuments including Confederate.
--Old Secesh
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
MAY 2, 2022
** In US, death threats to those removing Confederate statues. (Bangkok Post)
** Arkansas legislature prevents Confederate statue from being removed. (Fort Smith, Arkansas. Historic Monument Act of 2021)
** Confederate flag taken down after community backlash in Hamilton. (Canada. I wonder of there would be backlash over a BLM flag?)
** Louisiana House votes to end days of honoring Lee, Confederates.
--Old Secesh
FEBRUARY 12, 2022
** Charlotte changes more streets named for Confederate leaders. (North Carolina)
** Confederate statue represents racism and should be removed. (Opinion)
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FEBRUARY 13, 2022
** Watch: US Senate candidate burns Confederate flag in political ad. (Louisiana. And, he is a black man and a Democrat. Really surprising.)
** Alabama Memorial Preservation Act is a bad law, and amendment will make it worse. (Dothan, Alabama Eagle editorial.)
--Old Secesh
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
** Louisiana Senate candidate Gary Chambers burns Confederate flag in new campaign ad. (Of interest, the candidate is a black man. Who'd have figured. Could that be considered a hate crime? We are not impressed. And, believe it or not, this guy is a Democrat.)
** Why are Canadian protesters flying Confederate flags?
** Proposed Alabama bills would protect Confederate monuments and raise fines if they are removed.
** N. Carolina town council opts to remove Confederate monument. (Edenton. Only two of the members are Blacks. Someone wants a new statue there to honor a black slave who escaped. Take down a Confederate statue and replace it with a black statue. That sure can make for bad feelings.)
Funny Guy in Louisiana. --Old Secesh
JANUARY 25, 2022
** Fort Bragg citizen group unable to reach a consensus on name change. (North Carolina)
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JANUARY 26, 2022
** Confederate statue could be moved out of Orangeburg Memorial Plaza. (South Carolina. Plans to move it to a cemetery where Confederate soldiers are buried.)
** Input sought on Arkansas' new monument protection law.
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JANUARY 27, 2022
** Opinion: Those pesky statues and flags. (Whose pesky statues and flags?)
--Old Secesh
JANUARY 23, 2022
** Township defends rejection of Black Lives Matter brick. (Allendale, Michigan)**
** Missouri jail officer defends wearing Confederate flag to prom. (The prom? Really? Turns out she wore it back in 2013. That's Pre-G.F. you know.)
** Sculpture sitting at what used to be Lee Circle unveiled. (New Orleans. Of course, it has to do with Blacks., in case you're wondering.)
** Alabama bills: Felony to move, deface, alter historic monuments. (Wonder where this ones is going?)
--Old Secesh
OCTOBER 1, 2021
** Organizers seek to change Lee County, Florida, to Bruce Lee County. (As in the actor Bruce Lee. That's a good one. There's no stopping 'em now.)
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OCTOBER 2, 2021
** Tuskegee Confederate memorial subject of September lawsuit. (Alabama)
** Attorney General Steve Marshall says Madison County has paid Confederate monument fine. (Alabama. They've paid their $25,000 fine.)
** Replacing Confederate names on military bases underway. It could take years to finish. (Not to mention how much it will cost. Those that want them renamed should pay the entire bill for renaming. And, please don't rename every one of these after Blacks. I suggest (Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Benjamin O. Davis Jr., Jackie Robinson and Colin Powell.)
** Allendale drops vandalism charges over damage to Confederate statue. (Michigan. Big surprise. Do it to a Confederate statue and you get a bye for your criminal act most times.)
--Old Secesh
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
** Confederate statue removed from Lexington installed near Denton. (North Carolina)
** 'E. Pluribus Union,' Jackson County Confederate monument updated. (North Carolina. New text. Now dedicated to veterans of all wars.)
** The Confederate monument in downtown Franklin.
** Florida high schoolers caught on video waving Confederate flags, stomping Pride flags. (This should not have happened.)
** 'The monument is not racist;' speaker urges county commissioners to leave Confederate statue in Newton. (North Carolina)
** South Carolina's Confederate monument protection law upheld.
--Old Secesh
MAY 24, 2021
** SC's Heritage Act prohibiting Confederate monuments faces crucial test in SC Supreme Court.
** Ask Rufus: The Confederate monument.
** Vance monument: Appeals court denies emergency stop for demolition of Confederate marker. (Sad A.)
** Sound of judgement: In a small North Carolina town, a battle for racial justice confronts bloody past and uncertain future. (Graham, North Carolina)
** A teacher hangs a BLM flag at a school named for a Confederate general. Now she's under investigation. (Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida. If Confederate flags are not allowed, neither should anything BLM. It's only fair.)
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MAY 25, 2021
** Giant Confederate monument will remain at revamped Stone Mountain. (Glad to hear that.)
** Relocation of Confederate monument begins in Mississippi. (Lowndes County)
--Old Secesh
APRIL 16, 2021
** Proposal in Alabama to up protection for Confederate statues.
** Advocacy group to reeves: Throw Confederate Heritage Month 'into dustbin of history.'
** IOW votes to hand over Confederate monument to private property in Walters area. (Isle of Wight, Virginia. The public will pay $32,500 for removal. Actually, just those who want it removed should pay. Time to put your money where your mouth is.)
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APRIL 17, 2021
** Virginia faces complicated debate over two Confederate monuments.
** Alabama lawmaker equates Martin Luther King to Confederate general.
** Arkansas House votes to end state's 'Confederate Flag Day.'
** Editorial: Mississippi , finish what you started. End Confederate Heritage Month. (From Los Angeles Times.)
** Business demands removal of Confederate statue owned by City of Atlanta.
** Texas Historical Commission approves relocation of Denton County's Confederate memorial.
--Old Secesh
APRIL 9, 2021
** Confederate chair held ransom.
** City Council still undecided on Confederate statues. (Sad R. So, apparently, the 1997 state law passed to protect Confederate statues only applies to those built after 1997, not to those erected before that. I'm sure the original intent covered ALL statues, even those already standing.)
** North Carolinians still favor keeping Confederate monuments. Here's what has changed.
** Should Confederate monuments stay? Poll shows most in NC say yes.
** A majority in NC want to keep Confederate monuments, according to a new Elon poll. (58% want them to remain. 42% want them gone.)
** Man who carried Confederate flag to Capitol during Jan. 6 riot indicted.
** West Virginia lawmakers move to criminalize removal of Confederate statues.
--Old Secesh
MARCH 16, 2021
** A key panel has voted to remove a bust of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Tennessee Capitol. (A Key Panel? What is a key panel? Is that where you keep your keys? I have a key hook.)
** Letter: How can you fly a Confederate flag and call yourself a Patriot? (Chuckle)
** House committee approves bill critics say aims to keep Confederate monuments on state Capitol grounds. (West Virginia)
** Fort Myers quoted in the range of $60,000 to remove Robert E. Lee pedestal. (Florida. That seems to be a tad high. Real high. Someone's looking to get rich. Must be a mayor's bud. Let the BLMers and their white minions at it. They'll do it for free. But messy, very, very messy. Maybe a $10 donation to take a whack at it with a sledge hammer.)
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MARCH 17, 2021
** Virginia Beach Confederate monument still in storage, committee didn't support either proposal to move it. (Virginia.)
** $200,000 worth of damage done to presidents, Confederate graves at Virginia Cemetery. (Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. More than 18,000 Confederate soldiers, generals and Jefferson Davis buried there. No damage to president Monroe and Tyler graves. No damage done to any clearly Confederate graves either. Richmond police chief and mayor up in arms about it. Which is kind of funny considering what they have allowed to happen to Confederate monuments in that city.)
--Old Secesh
MARCH 16, 2021
** Baltimore's Walters Art Museum reckons with founders' Confederate ties. (This is so ridiculous. Like it's a sin to have Confederate ties. Without those guys there would NOT be a museum. Be happy with that.)
** Surprise inside? Thornrose Cemetery Confederate time capsule awaits revealing opening. (Staunton, Virginia. What will SPLC, NAACP or BLM have to say about this horrible thing?)
** Bill to protect Confederate monuments advances to House floor. (West Virginia. Who'd have figured in this day and age that anything like this would happen. What list will SPLC put this on?)
** Hearing to remove Confederate Gen. Mouton statue delayed 6th time. (Louisiana. We'll count this as a win. Not much of one, but we're desperate.)
** 160 years later, Confederate Constitution an ignoble relic. (The main difference was about slavery between it and the U.S. Constitution. Otherwise they were essentially the same.)
** Virginia Beach City Council weighs future of its Confederate monument. (Virginia. Hey, let the people vote on its removal. Dare you.)
An Ignoble Constitution? Really? Wasn't It based on the U.S. Constitution Except for Slavery? --Old Secesh
MARCH 4, 2021
** In Alabama, a vote to keep Confederate monument protections.
** Alphabet explosion: Pentagon commission for removing Confederate names sports unwieldy acronym. (That would be CNIDODCSAAPWSVCSA.)
** WE found it folks: Worst military acronym ever conceived. (No kidding.)
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MARCH 5, 2021
** Debate rages over whether to remove Confederate monument at Liberty Cemetery. (Liberty, Missouri)
** Confederate flag of today was never a real thing.
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MARCH 6, 2021
** The South's monuments will rise again. (Most will be erected again at some point.)
** Greenville's Confederate monument stick on Main Street as Heritage Act awaits court hearing. (South Carolina)
--Old Secesh
MARCH 3, 2021
** A tiny NC mountain town is addressing its big Confederate past. (Sylva, N.C.)
** Texas voters' views shifting on abortion, pot, gambling and Confederate monuments, poll finds. (Half of them would leave Confederate monuments where they are, either as is, or with historical context. I doubt that the BLM and their supporters are going to be too keen on having people vote on keeping the statues after what happened in Virginia in November.)
** Commissioners tasked with scrubbing Confederate base names sworn-in at first meeting. (Let's hope that not every renaming will be for a black person, but fear that is exactly what will happen in today's climate. I can even foresee a George Floyd military base in our future. Probably an O.J. one as well.)
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MARCH 4, 2021
** Confederate-era statues vandalized at Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery. (I se BLM is getting a jump on the spring riot/hate crime season. Again, that is not a simple case of vandalism when they do it, that is nothing short of hate crimes and should be prosecuted as that.)
** Confederate monument protests mirror St. Augustine's Civil Rights struggle in new exhibit. (Florida. A very prejudiced artist.)
** In Alabama, a vote to keep Confederate monument protections. (A win for us of sorts.)
Let's See. Fort Floyd and Fort O.J. --Old Secesh
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
** How an ex-slave and a Confederate hero joined forces during the Jim Crow era. (Quite an interesting story. Give it a read.)
** Bill to repeal Alabama law protecting Confederate monuments fails to advance. (Wow! Did we maybe win one?)
** Split vote, split views. Confederate Pelham removed as Culpepper Lake's name. (Virginia)
** Gaston County Confederate monument vandalized. (North Carolina. Dear old BLM at work again. I wonder of it would be vandalizing if someone did that to a Martin Luther King Jr. monument?)
** Did Churchill say "People with contempt for their heritage have lost faith in themselves"? (Snopes. He didn't. These words were on a removed Confederate monument.)
** Utah House votes for dropping 'Dixie' from university name. (Dixie State University. No new name chosen. The school has already changed nickname from Rebels to Red Storm and removed a Confederate soldier statue. Many southerners had settled in the area after the Civil War. Maybe rename the school Gutless State University or Woke State University.)
** First black president at the University of the South says home has been vandalized, threatening messages left. (Sewanee, Tennessee. Is this vandalism or a hate crime. I'd call it a hate crime.)
--Old Secesh
JANUARY 31, 2021
** Moving the statue of Confederate Gen. Forrest was the right choice. (Rome, Georgia)
** Protesters call for the removal of Limestone County Confederate monument. (Athens, Alabama. There were also protesters there who wanted to keep it.)
** Removing a Confederate monument? This bill would require Idaho legislature's approval. (Idaho? Why would Idaho have a Confederate monument?)
** Flag Wars: Does Confederate flag symbolize identity or slavery?
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
** A new Civil War monument will be built on the Eastern Shore. It would honor Union troops. (Virginia)
** 'We do not conduct campus celebrations of one of these state mandated holidays: Confederate Heroes Day. (University of Texas-Dallas)
** Can repurposing the Vance monument help heal the divide in Asheville? (North Carolina. Vance was the Confederate governor of the state.)
--Old Secesh
