Little Rock, Stone Mountain, Canada and Charlottesville

JANUARY 12, 2023

**  City of Little Rock sued over removal of Confederate monument from MacArthur Park.  (Arkansas)

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JANUARY 13, 2023

**  The truth about Stone Mountain's giant Confederate memorial.   (Georgia)

**  Freedom convoy trucker claims his Confederate flag wasn't racist.  (Ottawa, Canada)

**  Judge dismisses one count in Confederate statue lawsuit, but principal allegations remain.  (Charlottesville, Virginia)

**  How Stone Mountain weaponized  art against black people in a compelling new documentary.  (Los Angeles Times.  Really?  Weaponized!!  Come On!!)

--Old Secesh

Enslavers: A New WWM Word?

DECEMBER 31, 2022

**  Art at the Capitol honors 140 enslavers and 13 Confederates.  (U.S. Capitol.  Seventeen are depictions of Washington, 9 of Jefferson and 5 of Madison.  Also 15 depictions of Columbus.  Without these folks, I don't even know that we would have a country here.  

**  So, ENSLAVERS is the new WWM word for slaveowners.

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JANUARY 1, 2022

**  West Point begins removal of Robert E. Lee, Confederate paraphernalia.  (PARAPHERNALIA?  Really.)

Enslavers?  Paraphernalia?  --Old ?

Confederadication: Jacksonville, Virginia and the Washington Post

DECEMBER 26, 2022

**  Jacksonville City Council President  says Confederate monuments will come off 'back b urner.'  (Jacksonville, Florida.  I understand that crime in Jacksonville is on the rise among black folks.  Looks like that should be more important of a thing to address than removing Confederate monuments.  But, NO!!) 

**  Parks in Fairfax's Franconia District scrap the Confederate 'Lee' name.  (Virginia)

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

**  Art at Capitol honors  141 enslavers and 13 Confederates.  Who are they?  (Washington Post.  And two guesses what this newspaper wants to do with them.  First one doesn't count.  Was this another of the infamous SPLC lists?)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: SPLC, Baltimore's Monuments, Minnesota, Virginia and California

JUNE 11, 2022

**  SPLC  to screen movie, discuss Confederate monuments  Saturday.  (Montgomery, Alabama.  Do you think it wil be pro-Confederate or racist?)

**  Baltimore's 4 Confederate monuments to be part of Los Angeles art show.  (These monuments should have been given to the SCV or UDC.  I'm sure they will be shown in a negative light.)

**  Duluth  community, school district responds after student brought a c(C)onfederate flag to Denfeld.  (Denfeld HighSchool, Duluth, Minnesota.)

**  California's absurd focus on slavery reparations.  (California reparations?  Get serious folks.)

**  Shenandoah County School Board votes against restoring c(C)onfederate  school names.  (Virginia.  Thus avoiding a SPLC list.)

Wouldn't It Be Something for Some Journalists to Learn That Confederate is Capitalized?   --Old Secesh

Beware the Evil Confederate Flag. SPLC Does It Again. Now Jews and Baseball?

MARCH 30, 2022

**  Man who waved a Confederate flag pleads guilty in Capitol riot.  

**  NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center asking for removal of Confederate statue in Owensboro.  (Now, that is very surprising.  Who'd expect them not to like that statue.)

**  Baseball player exposed for wearing Confederate flag hat in viral Tik Tok.

**  Jewish art exhibit at Princeton canceled over Confederate ties.

**  A billboard goes up, a Confederate statue remains.  (Kentucky.  Referring to the second item in this post.  The SPLC put it up.)

Strange the SPLC Would Put Up a Billboard When They Are So Adept at Making Confederate Hate Lists.  --Old Secesh

Confederadication: Flags, Confederate Memorial Days, Jews, Memphis and NOLA

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

Sad R. Does It Again. African Art Replaces Confederate Statue, Maryland and Stone Mountain

JANUARY 25, 2022

**  Unanimous vote:  Richmond Confederate monuments going to black history museum.  (Another reason to boycott Sad R.  I can't imagine a worse place for our heritage to go.  There will be no respect there, no matter what the good old Post has to say.)

**  Simone   Leigh statue of African deity installed at site of former Confederate monument in New Orleans.  (And tell me, what does this have to do with me.  I worship no African deities.  Simone Leigh is a black artist.))

**  Opinion:    How many Marylanders fought for the rebels  was overstated.  (Again, consider the source, the Washington Post.)

**  Stone Mountain  leaders grappling with business losses at the park's resort hotel.  (Georgia.  It's that Confederate thing, you know.  And, of course, that virus thing.)

--Old Secesh

Of Flags, Fountains, Spray-Painting, Statues, Parades and Sad R.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

**  Confederate flag license plate spurs hostile workplace trial.  (Connecticut)

**  Group that donated Confederate  fountain in Helena wants it back.  (Montana.  Put there in 1916 and removed in 2017 (BGF)  (Before George Floyd) because of racial concerns.  UDC wants it back.

**  Virginia man who spray-painted Confederate monument at Arkansas' Capitol pleads guilty to misdemeanor.  You mean it is possible to arrest folks for desecrating something Confederate?  I didn't think that was possible.)

**  From Plato to Confederate statues:  Students study why  some iconic images are broken.  (DePauw University)

**  Remains of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill could be reinterred to Culpepper's  Fairview Cemetery.  (Right now they are still in Sad R.  believe me, the sooner we can get all vestiges of the Confederacy out of that town the better.)

**  Court says city can ban Confederate flag in veterans parade.  (Imagine our justice system saying something like that.)

--Old Secesh

What to Do With Stone Mountain. Confederate Memorial Day and Jacksonville

APRIL 27, 2021

**  Georgia park with giant Confederate  carving proposes changes.  (Stone Mountain, Georgia.   These are some of the proposals:  Publicly acknowledge that the park was a KKK gathering place, relocate Confederate flags and remove the carving from the logo.  These are acceptable to me.  Of course, BLM, SPLC and other groups want the carvings destroyed altogether.  I would absolutely oppose destroying the carvings.)

**  Confederate Memorial Day remains legal holiday in Florida, other Southern states.  (I imagine this might gall some folks.)

**  What's happening to Jacksonville's Confederate  monuments?  Group finalizes proposals.  (Florida.  They are still standing, but the white mayor says they have to go.)

**  Bid to end Arkansas' Confederate Flag Day fails before panel.

**  Committee recommends  city repurpose Jacksonville Confederate monuments rather than remove.  (Florida)

**  Gov. Reeves  said he wanted t promote unity.  Then he declared Confederate Memorial Day.  (Mississippi)

--Old Secesh

North Carolina, Jacksonville, Confederate Memorial Day, Beauvoir, Texas, Georgia

APRIL 25, 2021

**  Agreement reached on protests at  North Carolina Courthouse.   (Old Alamance Courthouse.)

**  Opportunities for hope  in Jacksonville after conviction in George Floyd's death.  (Florida)

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APRIL 26, 2021

**  Monday is a state holiday in Alabama:  Confederate Memorial Day is April 26.

**  The Circle:  Mitchell Eason  photo with Confederate flag resurfaces.  (So?)

**  Beauvoir hosts Confederate Memorial Day events.  (Mississippi)

**  Sonya Clark unravels American propaganda  in 'Monumental Cloth".

**  The Watchdog:  Texas  lawmaker shares his pleas  with colleagues to end Confederate  Heroes Day.

**  Icons of Civil Rights Movement  and racial equality are replacing  Confederates on monuments.  (It is too bad that all the removed Confederate monuments are being replaced with black ones.  Didn't some other white people do things to be proud of?)

**  Georgia park with giant Confederate  carving proposes changes.  (Stone Mountain, Georgia)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: UDC, Atlanta, Dallas, Artist, Beware Florida Racists and NAACP

APRIL 21, 2021

**  United Daughters of the Confederacy, Kennesaw  Chapter 241 observes Confederate Memorial Day.  (Georgia)

**  Atlanta City Council okays removal  of railroad statue  with Confederacy ties.  (Just because the man responsible for founding your company served in the Confederate Army in no way makes him a bad man.)

**  Dallas lawmaker files to remove Confederate monuments at Texas Capitol.  (A white man.)

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APRIL 22, 2021

**  Artist  Sonya Clark  weaves a corrective to the story of the Confederacy.

**  'Maliciously' taking down a Confederate monument in Florida is a second degree felony.  (This should also apply to anyone committing a hate crime of any sort.  Taking down a Confederate monument is a hate crime.)

**  Legal  settlement ensures protests are allowed around the Alamance Confederate statue.  (North Carolina.  NAACP racist group sued for this.  Protesters also allowed to swear at police.  Next thing you know, they'll be back in court seeking that destruction to the statue will result in awards and honors all around.)

--Old Secesh

Museums, Cemeteries, Bills, Hearings, Constitutions and Statues, OH MY!

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

The Confederacy Under Attack... Again: Forrest, Confederate Sympathizers, Tombstones Toppled and Have a Coke

MARCH 14, 2021

**  Final removal of Confederate  cavalry general  Forrest from Tennessee Capitol could take months.

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MARCH 15, 2021

**  Men behind  Walters art collection were Confederate sympathizers, officials at Baltimore museum say.  (So?)

**  Alachua  County looks for new  art for space where  Confederate soldier 'Old Joe' once stood.  

**  Civil War hospital  discovered in downtown New Bern.  (North Carolina.  Imagine "Real Civil War" stuff under Confederate search.)

**  Tombstones  toppled at historic Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.  (I don't know if they were Confederate gravestones or not.  But, I had to chuckle at the mayor's response to this of moral outrage after what he has allowed done to Sad R's Confederate monuments.)

**  Coquitlam  forklift operator  wins case against Coca Cola after Confederate flag mask worn at work.  (Wore it, got fired and won case.)

--Old Secesh

Come On Sad R., Take Down the Lee Monument. You Have Embarrassed Yourself Badly. Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and VMI

OCTOBER 19, 2020

**  Madison Co. commissioner: confederate  statue may be moved soon.  (Huntsville, Alabama.  WAFF, 48.  Hey!  Confederate is a proper name.)

**  Trial underway in Richmond in Robert E. Lee statue case.  (Sad R. and even sadder Va. gov.  I was wondering if that statue was still standing in Sad R.  I guess it is.  However, I want it either cleaned or quickly removed.  It is so sad to see what the city's mayor has allowed BLM to do to it.  Of course, if it is cleaned, the BLMers would just mark it up again with their profanity.)

**  'I want my art to strike up a conversation':  Warner Robins man paints with a promise.   (Georgia.  Painted part of mural around Confederate statue in Macon.)

**  Letter:  Leave the statue, update the plaque.  (Newton, Catawba County, N.C.)

**  Racism common at Virginia Military Institute.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: Cleaning Up "Vandalism" and the Stolen Confederate Flags

December 3, 2019

**  Texas Senate to review chamber's art, including Confederate paintings.  (And guess what they'll do with those.)

**  Crews cleaning  vandalism off Charlottesville's Confederate statues.  (Again, this is not vandalism.  It is a Hate Crime!)

**  Columbus preps for legal battle over Confederate flags removed from Linwood Cemetery.  (Ohio)

**  Poll:  Majority of NC residents support Confederate statues staying in place.

**  Reward for information  regarding stolen Confederate flags increased.   Some 200 Confederate flags stolen from Woodbine Cemetery in Harrisonburg, Va.  Increased to $1,500.

**  Judge dismisses Daughters of the Confederacy lawsuit:  Chatham Confederate statue will stay down.  Pittsboro, N.C.

**  Feedback meetings complete, Eads says Confederate statue removal won't be an option.    (Denton County, Texas)

Is This All-Out War?  --Old Secesh

Heritage Attacks Continue: Of Peaks, Laws and Propaganda

November 24, 2019

**  Confederate flag is the symbol of KKK, white supremacy.

**  Protests continue after statue removal.  (Pittsboro, N.C.)

**  Art and racist propaganda should not be conflated:  Letters to the editor.

Okay, I had to look up conflated.  It means combined.

**  Judge throws out Alabama law that protects Confederate monuments.

**  Nevada naming board votes to strip Confederate leader's name from peak.  (Jeff Davis Peak)

--Old Secesh