Confederate Flags Still Bothering Some Folks

JULY 30, 2022

**  Plane pulls Confederate flag over NASCAR All-Star Race.  (Now, that's just a horrible, norrible thing.)

**  Stephenson County fairgoers upset about  wearing of Confederate flags on fairgrounds.  (Well, then, they shouldn't wear them if it upsets them. It's a free world, you know.)

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JULY 31, 2022

**  Gainesville City Council votes to remove Confederate statue.

**  Petition to remove Tampa's  massive Confederate flag has  over 75000 signatures.  (Florida)

--Old Secesh

Believe It or Not, Some Confederate Statues Remain in Sad R.

JULY 23, 2022

**  Two years after protests, some of Richmond's Confederate statues remain.  (Washington Post.  How kind of them to point this out.  Does this mean that they need to go as well.)

**  Confederate battle flag flies over Great Northern Fair.

**  JULY 24, 2022

**  Confederate flag blocks funds for museum repairs.  (Delaware)

JULY 25, 2022

**  Man comissioned to take down  Confederate statues unveils NFT  collection to raise $13 million.  (This still smells like political cronyism.  Someone made a lot of money doing this.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: NAACP Again, Muslims, New York Fair and a Confederate Flag

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

**  NAACP says Confederate statue should be removed from public courthouse.  (Robeson County, N.C.)

**  CAIR supports  NAACP call for  removal of Confederate monument from N.C. courthouse.  (Council on American-Islamic Relations.  Maybe they should also call for a ban on Islamic treatment of women and the opening of Islamic countries to Christianity as well.)

**  Group:  Fair should ban Confederate flag to get federal  funds.  (Delaware County, New York)

**  Confederate:  Why flag on Diamond's video has caused a stir.  (He is a black Tanzanian recording artist.)

--Old Secesh

Why Must Everything Be Renamed for Blacks? SPLC Again, Oh Those Fairs, Oh Those Flags. COVID-19 and the Civil War, Schools

AUGUST 14, 2021

**  Correcting revisionist history:  SPLC challenges more than 100 schools honoring Confederate leaders to change their names.  (They even made a lost.  Imagine them making a list.  Of course, I'm sure they want all of them to be renamed for Blacks.)

**  Flag debate rises again  with fair season.  (You know which flags are in question.  The way I look at it, if a person is offended, don't buy it or look at it or even do business with the person.)

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AUGUST 15, 2021

**  AS US COVID-19 deaths top the Civil War's toll, we're repeating disease history.  (Time Magazine.  Well, how about that.  No statues or flags here!!!)

**  Northampton  school board gets first look at 'hate symbols' policy.  (Massachusetts.  Confederate flags of course.  Is there anything about BLM paraphernalia on that list?  That is pretty much hate in my books.)

**  Hampton to rename five schools called for servant owners, Confederates and segregationists.  (Of course, they will be renamed for Blacks.)

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: Virginia, Florida and Ohio

JULY 14, 2020


**  Hanover school leaders to discuss Confederate-named  schools.  (Virginia   Lee-Davis High School and Stonewall Jackson Middle School.

**  'Take it down:'  Protesters  march to remove Walton County's  Confederate monument.  (Florida)

**  Group wants Confederate flag banned at Lorain County Fair.  (Ohio)

**  Lorain County Fair:  Opponents gather against Confederate flag sales at the fair.  (Hey, if you don't like it, don't like at it or buy it.  'Nuff said.)

--Old Secesh

Five Schools in Missouri: Three Named for Union leaders at the Battle of Wilson's Creek; Two for Confederate Comanders. What to Do?

JULY 2, 2020


**  Republic schools named for Confederate generals  may get renamed.  (Springfield, Mo.    Five schools were named after leaders on both sides at the Battle of Wilson's Creek.  Two named after Confederate leaders at the battle.  Three after Union commanders.  Obviously the Confederate ones need to be renamed.  Well, we had the movie "Three Signs Outside Ebbing, Missouri" now we have the "Five Schools in Republic, Missouri.")

There is also a push to remove a statue of a Confederate general at the nearby Springfield National cemetery.

**  Richmond mayor says he wants city-owned confederate monuments removed immediately.  (Patience, man.  Patience.  I knew he and the governor would be chomping at the bit to take them down.)

**  As more fairs ban rebel flag, what will the Lorain County Fair Board do?  (Ohio)

You've Hear of the Movie "Three Signs in Ebbing, Missouri."  Now We Have Five Schools in Republic, Missouri.  --Old Secesh

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Mississippi State Flag, Monuments, County Fairs and Elizabeth Warren

JUNE 28, 2020

**  Mississippi poised to replace state flag featuring Confederate war emblem.

**  Trump denounces  protesters tearing down statues, as Confederate monuments are targeted.

**  Ricchard Groves:  The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.  (No kidding.  I heard this song by the Band a few days ago and couldn't help but have a tear in my eye.  This is the second time they drove old Dixie down.  The first was in 1865.  This song has taken on a whole new meaning for me of late.)

**  NWF Confederate memorials --  remove them or keep them?


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JUNE 29, 2020

**  A 'coup' led by  white supremacists led to placement of Pensacola's Confederate monument.  (Florida)

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JULY 1, 2020 

**  'Community is awakened':    Confederate flag out at Wayne County Fair.  (Ohio)

**  Confederate cannons removed from Raleigh now at Fort Fisher.

**  Elizabeth Warren calls for all 10 military bases named after 'traitor' Confederate generals to be renamed and accuses Donald Trump of  'choosing hatred and division' by opposing the move.  (Like I said, what a gal."

--Old Secesh

More Venom from the NY Times, The Final End of the Lost Cause, West Point, NCAA and More Flags

JUNE 20, 2010

**  Why is the GOP fighting to preserve monuments to traitors in the Capitol?  (From the New York Times.  Not a surprising slant from them.  The Times and Washington Post seem to be the two newspapers with the most Confederate hatred venom.)

**  The controversy surrounding the removal of Confederate statues.

**  Rep. Mahoney asks Army to remove Confederate symbols at West Point.  (I'd like to see them remove that 150-pound Armstrong cannon the U.S. Army captured at Fort Fisher, N.C., and return it to that site.  Come on Rep. Mahoney!!!!)

**  Editorial:  The final end of the Lost Cause.  (You can say that again.  George Floyd "done" us in.)

**  NCAA bans Mississippi championships over Confederate symbol in state flag.  (They won't have any NCAA championships in the state.  Maybe they should be more interested in all the cheating that occurs in their Power Five conferences, though.)

**  Athens County Fair Board should ban Confederate flags.

--Old Secesh

Should Confederate Monuments Be Treated Like MLK Memorials? UNC Chancellor Says Silent Sam Can't Come Back to School (Now, He'll Never Graduate)

February 20, 2020

**  Florida lawmaker says Confederate monuments should be honored like MLK memorials.  (He will come under intense fire for that statement.  We know why certain people don't like anything Confederate, but is there anything that MLK did that might offend some people?

But, didn't MLK have all those extramarital affairs as a preacher?  You'd think he'd know better than that.  Plus, there was the way some Blacks reacted to his murder with rampages, fires, looting and rape.)

**  Athens mayor suggests fair's  inaction on Confederate flag will have costs.  (Athens, Ohio--  Members of the fair's governing body voted overwhelmingly against banning the sale of Confederate items.)

**  Democrats running for state senate talk legislature's role in Confederate monuments.  (Salisbury, N.C.)

**  UNC chancellor vows that the Confederate statue will not return to school.  (That would be Silent Sam.  But, didn't UNC allow those students who committed the hate crime by pulling the statue down, then rejoiced, back in school.  And what about those UNC faculty members who put them up to it.  None of them lost their jobs.)

**  Miami-Dade commissioners vote unanimously to change the name of Dixie Highway.  Florida.  Sheer ignorance.)

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: About That Confederate Railroad Band

November 23, 2019

**  Removal of Caddo Confederate monument temporarily blocked again as UDC files new suit.

**  Facing NAACP lawsuit, Hanover School Board punts on Confederate names at special meeting.

**  Bringing a 'fuller story' to Confederate monuments in Tennessee honors our history:  Opinion.

**  Ulster County paid $6000 toward replacement act for Confederate Railroad at fair.  This band has the word Confederate in it and use the Confederate battle flag in their logo.

**  The Tea:  Reminders of a past we can not escape.

--Old Secesh

Second Civil War, Oct. 23, 2019: Hate Crime Statue Damage Costs Money to Repair

**  City puts insurance "on notice" over Confederate statue damage.  (Charlottesville, Va.)  It costs money to repair damage done by those committing hate crimes against the statues.

**  Interfaith vigil set to oppose Confederate statue.  (Florida)  Religion too?

**  Some Bedford County parents 'disappointed and frustrated with school division's agreement with Office of Civil Rights.

**  Sons of Confederacy responds to Dixie Classic Fair name change.  Well actually it should be Sons of Confederate Veterans.  Dixie is another word used by the Confederacy.  Can't have that.

**  Facebook posts by Palmyra school board candidate use racially divisive themes and memes.

**  "Rumors of War" in Times Square is an epic response to Confederate statues.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack, Sept. 25, 2019: Some More On That Cop

**  Confederate Railroad headlines Hokes Bluff City Fest.    For those of you who don't know, Confederate Railroad is a popular country band who was booked to play at the Illinois State Fair in August but our governor had them banned because of the name.

**  Upcoming October programs at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.  Okay, some more REAL Civil War stuff.

**  Cop fired over KKK, Confederate memorabilia:  "I'm just a Dukes of Hazzard fan boy."  You definitely shouldn't get fired for Confederate memorabilia.  KKK stuff is another category, though.

**  West Newbury selectmen aim for parade guidelines by January.  This involves Confederate flags in their Memorial Day parade for 2020.

--Old Secesh