At Least They Are Hearing Both Sides. Palatka, Perryville, Sculptor, Virginia. Do All Renamed Confederate Items Have To Be for Blacks?

JULY 15, 2021

**  Redmond councilors hear both sides on Confederate flag controversy at 4th of July parade.  (Oregon.  Well, at least they are hearing both sides.)

**  Proposed Putnam  ordinance that would protect Palatka Confederate statue  stirs ugly debate.  (Florida)

**  Confederate flag will remain a part of Perryville's city flag.  (Kentucky.  The Battle of Perryville took place here.)

**  Sculptor offers artistic clapback to Confederate monuments with chilling sculpture about black life.

**  Fairfax County  appoints task force  to review changing two  Confederate highway names.  (Virginia.  Well, will they or won't they?)

**  Vance High School officially renamed; other Confederate names to be changed in Charlotte. (North Carolina.  It will now be the Julius J. Chambers High School.  Again, Chambers is a worthy man, but why do all Confederate name changes have to be renamed for Blacks?)

**  Christiansburg approves tribute to African American history to be installed near Confederate  monument.  (Virginia.  Always room for another historical monument.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Sculptor Edward Valentine, Brooklyn, Fort Hood, North Carolina, Texas and Alabama

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JANUARY 3, 2021

**  Richmond sculptor Edward Valentine created many of the statues that defined Lost Cause.

**  Streets in Brooklyn honoring Confederate figures to be renamed under defense bill.  (New York)

**  Opinion:  Changing Fort Hood's name cannot erase its proud history.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

**  Removed Confederate monument still  source of contention.  (Chatham County, N.C.)

**  The Texas legislature is set to grapple with  the Confederacy.  It is our  No. 10 issue of the upcoming session.  (What number is Blacks shooting Blacks at?)

**  Gaston's Confederate monument likely to remain in place for now.  (North Carolina.  As long as BLM doesn't commit hate crimes against it.)

**  Small town Alabama resident transformed to a protest leader.  (A black woman upset about Confederate symbols.)

--Old Secesh