Candace Owens Defends Confederate Flag

From the December 21, 2022, Media Matters.

I had to look her up after seeing the video.  She is a black woman of a conservative bent.  So she definitely is opinionated.  However, what she had to say struck a cord with me because people whose ancestors, like mine, fought for the Confederacy, should not be made to feel ashamed of them.

She was incorrect on a few things she said, but overall made her point.

Here is what she said:

"I do not see a problem with people whose family members died fighting for that flag to be able to wave it high.  It is historical and the idea that your son or daughter went and marched in a war--  that people are so stupid they think they were fighting for slavery, those people who fought were piss-poor and never had a slave a single day in their life.

"They fought for the south and their sons signed up, went to war, and now they're told that even having a flag or having any pride for their relatives is something wrong and dirty and backwards and racist and associated with slavery.

"People are so ignorant about slavery and the numbers on slavery.  I mean, the idea that everyone had slaves in the south is so stupid.  It was incredibly uberwealthy.  It's be like people believing that everyone today has a yacht.

"I mean, it's just so--  I'm just going to stop ranting about it.  The answer is people should be allowed to keep their c(C)onfederate  flags and wave them because it represents an element of history."

Like I said, she made some good points.  A video accompanies the article.

Tell It Like It Is, Candace.   --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Macon, Jefferson Davis, Louisiana and Fort Polk

JUNE 23, 2022

**  Macon man  makes final plea to stop move of Cotton Avenue Confederate  statue.  (Macon, Georgia)

**  Toppled Jefferson Davis statue goes on display at The Valentine.  (Sad R.  The Valentine is an art museum and they are leaving the statue with all the paint and damage illegally done to it.  Just another shame for the City of Shame.)

**  Confederate monument is now  in new home in  DeSoto Parish.  (The one from Caddo, Louisiana)

**  Fort Polk Progress changes name to Louisiana Armed Forces  Alliance.  Fort Polk likely to be renamed for William Henry Johnson, a black hero from WW I.  He is deserving, but please do not rename all the forts after Blacks.)

**  Confederate monuments moved in Macon after years of dispute.  (Georgia)

--Old Secesh

Hey SPLC, Where's That List of 'Hit' Businesses During the BLM Riots? Why Does It Take Certain People So Long to Become Offended?

When a day only has one or two articles, that doesn't mean there weren't others.  I don't write about the ones that are new or that give other information.

JULY 21, 2021

**  'Never give up':  Statue of Confederate general removed from Louisiana city after years of activism.  (The good folks at SPLC.  Lafayette, Louisiana.  Actually, this years of activism are within the last few years.  The statue was put there 99 years ago.  Why wasn't it offensive back then and suddenly, "Woke, there you are?"  

And, by the way, SPLC, we're still waiting on one of your lists to tell how many and where businesses were burned and looted during last year's BLM riots.  Let's get to it, guys.)

**  Residents  speak out about removal of Confederate monument.  (Greenville, North Carolina)

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JULY 22, 2021

**  Polk Co.  commission takes sudden action to move Confederate monument out of downtown Bartow.  (Florida.  It will be moved to a cemetery.)

**  Jacksonville  schools renaming underway:  Riverside High reveals new logo but nickname will stay.  (Florida.  Nickname is "The Generals."   Formerly the Robert E. Lee High School.)

**  Virginia plaza that once honored Robert E. Lee to be renamed. (Roanoke, Virginia. The statue there had a hate crime committed against it last year during BLM protests.  Will be renamed for Henrietta Lacks, a black woman whose cells are important for cancer research who died in 1951.  Again, a deserving purpose, but do all renamed places have to be renamed for black people?)

I'm Thinking SPLC Doesn't Release a "Hit Businesses" List Because That Might Make Their Side Look Bad.  --Old Secesh