Civil War II: U.S. Navy, NAACP, Ukraine, Yale and Arlington

MARCH 12, 2023

**  Stripping Confederate ties, the U.S. Navy renames two vessels.  (New York Times.  I bet the Times is really happy about that.)

**  NAACP, others, seek removal of Confederate ties.  (Milledgeville, Georgia.  I'm surprised the NAACP would take a stance like that.  This is not very racist, is it?)

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MARCH 13, 2023

**  Ukraine making same mistake as Confederacy in the Civil War.

** Yale scholar helps U.S. military rename Confederate memorials.

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MARCH 14, 2023

**   Arlington's Monument to Peace and Reconciliation slated for demolition.    (Arlinton National Cemetery's Confederate monument.    I suppise the Confederates buried there will also have to be removed.)

--Old Secesh

North Carolina, Texas and Louisiana

MARCH 4, 2023

**  'Are you listening?'  Residents sound off on Confederate  soldier statue at Burke meeting.  (Hickory, North Carolina)

**  Texas students demand removal of statue linked to school's racist past.  (University of Texas Arlington)

**  Confederate monument still standing nearly a year after vote to remove it.  (St. Landry Parish, Louisiana)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Stone Mountain, Nikki Haley, North Carolina and Sad R. Again

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

**  The haunting history of America's largest Confederate monument.  (Stone Mountain)

**  Nikki Haley's Confederate flag decision and her 2024 run.  (Time Magazine.  Run for president)

**  In Edenton, progress in removing Confederate  monument has stalled, dividing the town.  (North Carolina)

**  Lawyer demands billions after university  removes relative's name from building.  (University of Richmond.  Somehow, Sad R. anything doing something like that is not surprising.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Now VCU? Renaming the Military and the Battle of Belton

JANUARY 9, 2023

**  VCU's  medical college depended on and profited from slavery, new report says.  (Virginia Commonwealth University is located in Sad R.  They too are anxious to have Confederadication.  I sure don't know what is wrong with Sad R.  Must be the water?)

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JANUARY 10, 2023

**  U.S. military begins multi-million project renaming Army bases, Navy ships linked to the Confederacy.  (I still say this should be paid for by those who want the names removed.)

**  Battle for Belton Confederate statue removal carries to 2023.  (Texas)

Who Pays?   --Old Secesh

Civil War II: Those Pesky Confederate Flags Again

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

**  Spartanburg County:  Pole with SC flag that replaced Confederate on I-85 still in violation.  (South Carolina)

**  Confederate  flag deters Delaware Democrats from Return Day tradition.

**  This professor was fired for  her political speech:  Now, she's getting her job back.  (Collins College. Supported removing Confederate monuments.)

**  Superintendent says  MPS will rename Lee, Davis high schools by December.  (Montgomery, Alabama)

--Old Secesh

Sad NASCAR and A 'Surprising' College Prof

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

High School, TCU, Scarlet Street? Fort Liberty and Luke

JULY 13, 2022

**  High school student dismantles Confederate flag defense.

**  TCU to research its history with racism, slavery and the Confederacy.  (Texas Christian University)

**  14 Confederate street names  changed with Fairfax  City Council vote.  (Virginia  One was Scarlet Circle.  I fail to see what that has to do with the Confederacy.  Maybe Scarlett O'Hara?  Also changed was Traveler Street.  Lee's horse?  Of course, most likely they'll all be renamed for black people.)

**  Debate  about Confederate flag at center of funding request in Georgetown.  (Delaware)

**  Fort Liberty:  Divided  views on changing Fort Bragg's name.

**  Luke Combs apologizes for Confederate for Confederate flag use:  'I am  now sware of how painful that image can be.'  (He is a big country star.  Where's he been hiding?  Country Music continues its sell-out.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: England, Virginia, Georgia, SPLC and Voting

JUNE 29, 2022

**  University student union apologizes for displaying Confedetae flags at 'Wild West' summer ball.  (Harper AdamsUniversity in England.)

**  Lee District likely to be renamed  to Franconia District.  (Fairfax County, Virginia.)

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JUNE 30, 2022

**  Confederate flag display supports Georgia  policewoman's firing.  (Roswell, Georgia)

**  Billboard pushes for removal of Confederate monument in Putnam County.  (Brought to you by the good folks at SPLC.  What?  No List?)

**  Commission looking  at ballot resolution for  c(C)onfederate monument.  (Careful.  You put it to a vote of the people and removal usually fails.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Mississippi State Song, LSU, Silent Sam, UNC, New Mexico

APRIL 3, 2022

**  Mississippi lawmakers push to drop state song with racist roots.

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APRIL 4, 2022

**  County judge:    Confederate monument exhibit could come "shortly"

**  Students bring attention to displays honoring Confederate soldiers, segregationist at LSU museum.  (Louisiana)

**  Column:  Silent Sam still looms over campus.  (I thought it had been illegally taken down.)

**  See how many Confederate memorials  still exist in New Mexico.  (Another SPLC list.  But, they won't make up a list showing how much damage was done during the summer of 2020 when the BLMers were busy rioting, looting and burning.)

In case you're wondering, New Mexico has two Confederate memorials.

Hey SPLC, Would Making a Damage List Make Your Side Look Bad?  --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

Civil War II: Canada, TCU, Confederate Railroad and a Pesky Flag Tattoo

MARCH 25, 2022

**  Toronto couple finds  Confederate flag at  in Airbnb rental, company admits it 'mishandled' the situation.  ((The stupidity of some people.)

**  Texas Christian University digs into its past with initiative studying  slavery and racism.  (Do you think it is possible for a Southern school to not have a history with slavery?)

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MARCH 26, 2022

**  Amy Slaton and her husband attended a 'racist' concert with Confederate flags.  (Something about 1,000 Pound Sisters at a Confederate Railroad concert.  Things are getting real dumb these days.)

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MARCH 27, 2022

**  Sheriff candidate's husband had tattoo of Confederate  flag.

Again, It Just Keeps Getting Dumber.  --Old Secesh

Oh Those Pesky Confederate Flags

MARCH 10, 2022

**  Gary Chambers:  The Confederate flag burning Senate candidate is having a ball.  (Gary Chambers, Jr.)

**  South Carolina pol wears  Confederate flag shirt at event for black and Hispanic  kids.

**  Confederate flag t-shirt sparks debate at ex-Easton wrestling coach's discrimination trial nears.

**  LAWSUIT:  A history professor advocated for removing Confederate statues.  Then his college fired him.   (Collin College,  Texas)

**  Donor pays Montgomery's $25K fine for dropping Confederate name from street sign.  (Alabama)

--Old Secesh

A Confederate Statue Replaced with a Non-Black One in Utah. Who'd Have Figured?

MARCH 6, 2022

**  Former site of Confederate statue picked for new symbol  at Dixie State University.  (Utah.  I am shocked that they didn't put up a statue to Blacks in the place of the Confederate soldiers.  They replaced it with a bison.  Of course, I am surprised that they haven't changed the name of their school yet.  I propose Woke State University.)

**  Replacing images of Confederate generals.  (Arkansas)

**  SC workers get Juneteenth, Confederate holiday choice.  (Personally, I think they should have a holiday devoted to that wonderful man named George Floyd who led such an exemplary life.)

And, Here I Was Thin king That the New Law Said That ALL Confederate Statues Removed Had to be Replaced with Ones of Black People.  Well, Just "Woke" Me.  --Old Secesh

Confederate Flags in Canada, Time Capsules, Austin and the N.C. State Alma Mater Song

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

**  Black drivers who saw this Confederate flag in London, Ontario, have a message for homeowner.  (Canada.  Yet, we have to look at BLM signs, flags, tee shirts all over the place.  That offends me.  But, I don't count because I'm white.  Everybody knows only Blacks can be offended these days.)

**  Workers find a  box under Jefferson Davis Confederate monument.  (Sad R.)

**  Austin's Confederate Avenue will be renamed.  (Texas)

**  NC State removes  Confederate term Dixie from  alma mater song.  (Gosh.  The offending words were "Where the winds of Dixie softly blow o'er the fields of  Caroline."  At least they didn't say cotton (you know, slaves picking it).  Maybe change it to the "winds of BLM or George Floyd.")

How Ridiculous Can This Get.  Evidently More So.  --Old Secesh

Confederadication: Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, New Orleans and the Lee Pedestal in Sad R.

DECEMBER 4, 2021

**  Confederate statue outside Kentucky courthouse vandalized.  (Calloway County.  That is not vandalism.  It's a hate crime.)

**  Tennessee man gets new trial after jury met in a room with Confederate symbols.  (Dumb)

**   Building honoring  Confederates, segregationists won't get renamed.  (Georgia's public university system.)

**  City Council  will discuss final disposition of Charlottesville's Confederate statues.  (Virginia.  And, believe me, it won't be good.)

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DECEMBER 5, 2021

**  New Orleans urged to switch street name from Confederate to music legend.  (Robert E. Lee Boulevard to Allen Toussaint.)

**  Northam to remove  Lee statue pedestal, transfer land to city.  (Virginia governor.  That pedestal should have come down as soon as the statue was removed.  What the city and state allowed to be done to it is an embarrassment.)

--Old Secesh

The USS Confederacy, Georgia Colleges, Black Confederates? No Confederate Flags in Christmas Parade

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

**  Historically Speaking:  Norwich's U.S. Navy frigate, the USS Confederacy.  (Imagine a ship with this name in the U.S. Navy, but it really was. Hopefully we won't have to go back into the past and change the name because it offends certain people.)

**  Georgia regents:  No college name  changes over racial history.  (A list of 75 names of buildings named after people involved with slavery, segregation or mistreatment of Indians.)

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

**  Heritage group honors Black men it says were Confederate veterans.  (Alabama.  48th Alabama Re-enactment group. Even though some historians say black Confederates were just a myth.)

**  Confederate flag banned from flying in Mechanicsville Christmas parade.  (Virginia.  As long as anything BLM is also banned.)

**  Confederate monuments to stay in place in Bastrop until relocation plan finalized.  (Texas)

**  Next step for Confederate names task force.  (Virginia.  You know, removing the names and renaming them for Blacks.)

--Old Secesh

Archives, Jacksonville, Virginia, and Fort Rucker

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

**  CSUF students create archive that  examines Confederate  memorials.  (Cal State Fullerton)

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

**  State, Jacksonville  lawyers ask to dump  Confederate monuments  lawsuit.  (Florida)

**  Washington County, Va. leaders discuss proposed  removal of Confederate monuments in Abingdon.  

**  Washington County, Va. to relocate  Confederate monuments for courthouse expansion.  (A quick follow up on the above entry.  The council voted 7-0 to remove the Confederate statues for a courthouse expansion.  Nothing mentioned about whether they'd be returned, but my guess is not.)

**  Public's help wanted for renaming Fort Rucker.  (Alabama)

**  Stripping military bases of Confederate names stirs passions.

**  Confederate symbols to be removed in Loudon County, Va.

--Old Secesh

Virginia 'Woke.' Community Colleges, Texas, Georgia, Lynching, Confederate Flags, and a Union Monument

OCTOBER 11, 2021

**  Virginia changes names  of multiple community colleges amid racial reckoning.  (Washington Post.  Big surprise they'd write something like this.  You must mean "Woke."

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

**  Caldwell County Courthouse Confederate monument will move to museum.  (Texas)

**  Georgia students suspended after making plans to protest Confederate flag.

**  Confederate monuments  and the history of lynching in the American South.  (I doubt that any statue lynched anybody.)

**  Norwin students wear Confederate flag to school.  (Pennsylvania)

**  County hopes to meet with Union monument owners.  (Perquimans County, North Carolina.  They want to move it to the courthouse, where there is a Confederate monument.  This monument is dedicated to black soldiers in the war.  I can definitely go with that.  All sides of history need to be shown.)

--Old Secesh

Talbot Boys Gone, MTSU Forrest, Those Pesky Confederate Memorial Bases, Proper Name Boys and Girls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

**  Confederate statue to be removed from Maryland  court house lawn.  (The Talbot Boys monument.)

**  Second attempt to remove name of Confederate general from MTSU building.  (Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.  Forrest Hall, Army ROTC.  Hey, just pretend it is named after Forrest Gump who was quite an Army hero according to the movie.)

**  County commissioners vote to remove former Confederate memorial base.  (Warren County, Warrenton, N.C.  First they want the statue gone then the base of it.  Never happy.)

**  Historian Karen Cox:  We have   'No Common Ground' on Confederate monuments.  (North Carolina)

**  Maryland's last c(C)onfederate  statue to be removed to Shenandoah Valley.  (Come on WHSV.  Didn't you ;earn in school that Confederate is a proper name?  That's Shenandoah Valley as in Virginia.  It should have stayed somewhere private in Maryland and close to Talbot County.)

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

**  Confederate AP Hill statue may be headed for Culpepper.  (Virginia.  Please hurry up and get it out of Sad R.)

**  Robert E, Lee and the Trumpists:  Why a Confederate  "hero" is still important.

--Old Secesh