Bringing Back Confederate-Named Schools in Virginia? Did You Hear the One About the Dumb Comedian?

JUNE 2, 2022

There were a whole lot of articles about the Kentucky Confederate statue being removed and the CMA  banning Confederate imagery.

**  Shenandoah County School Board votes against c(C)onfederate school name survey.  (Woodstock, Virginia.  They will vote on restoring the names of Stonewall Jackson High School and  Ashby-Lee Elementary at next month's board meeting.)

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JUNE 3, 2022

**  Students suspected of flying  of flying Confederate flag at Maryland school.  (La Plata, Maryland)

**  Tappahannock to remove Confederate figure.  (Essex County, Virginia.  The town council voted for removal. Of course, it was not put up for a people vote.)

**  Comedian stunned after asking a man in a Confederate  flag shirt if he is pro-slavery.  (Duh.  slavery was abolished with the 13th Amendment in 1865.  Looks like the comedian didn't do too well in history class in school.)

Dumb Old Comedian.  --Old Secesh

Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Maryland

MAY 20, 2022

**  Federal court hearing  moves Pensacola  Confederate statue removal law suit to state court.  (Florida)

**  Virginia board considers restoring names  of schools named for Confederate  generals.

**  Georgia Supreme Court takes up right to sue over removal of Confederate monuments.

**  Confederate flag found hanging  from Charles County high school.  (Maryland)

**  Could the Pensacola Confederate monument come back?  federal ruling may make it possible.  (Florida)

**  Ga. Supreme Court hears two Confederate monument cases.

These Headlines Just Might Make the Good Folks Over at SPLC Upset.   --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

Fort Hood Becomes Fort Hobby? Tennessee, Wilmington, N.C., Arkansas and Texas

AUGUST 25, 2020


**  Collierville residents, other, ask board to remove Confederate marker   in square.  (Tennessee)

**  Plenty of theories, few answers as to why Pine Valley's streets have Confederate names.  (Wilmington, N.C.)

**  Task force to decide future of Confederate monument in Cleveland.  (Tennessee.  Guess how this one will turn out?)

**  Letter:  Confederate flag illustrates the 'evil power of symbol.'

**  Board backs name change for Fort Smith school.  (Arkansas)

**  Fort Hood:  Historians push to rename Fort Hood after Killeen trailblazer.  (Texas.  Oveta Culp Hobby, a white woman, who was first director of Women's Army Corps in WW II.  I could go along with this.)

I'd Back Any Fort Renamed for Anyone Who Is Not Black Except Colin Powell and Jackie Robinson.  I'd be okay with forts named after these two deserving men.  --Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack, Oct. 30, 2019: Schools and Statues

From the Oct. 30, 2019,Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  Watch exclusive clip of Trace Adkins as Confederate outlaw in upcoming movie "Badland."
(not CW II)

**  Judge halts Chatham County plan to remove Confederate statue from Pittsboro courthouse.  A very rare judicial win for us,even if just temporary.

**  Franklin County School Board talks banning Confederate flag in dress code.

**  Ross wants gun rights for felons, yes to Confederate statues.

**  New research shows at least 76 Iowans joined the Confederacy during the Civil War.  (not CW II)

**  Letter:  Editorial took good position on Confederate statue.

**  Trump tweet, political divisions  fuel rising discourse about new US Civil War.

**  Stonewall Jackson Middle should drop first name, school panel says.

--Old Secesh