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

Ole Miss Apologizes, Agriculture and the SCV, More N.C. and Charlottesville Again

February 27, 2020

**  Ole Miss apologizes to black protesters arrested in 1970.  (It might be nice if UNC-Chapel Hill would apologize for their students destroying Silent Sam.)

**  Cannabis, Confederates and saving farms:  The primary  for N.C. Agriculture Commissioner.    (One Republican and 3 Democrats running for it.  The Republican is incumbent.

One of the Democrats is a white woman who criticizes the SCV for having a booth at the state fair every year "a group whose whole mission is to engage in whitewashed history that is racist and discriminatory."

Not really sure what the SCV and agriculture have in common.

**  Civil War raging again in North Carolina.  (Big to do over the new N.C. Civil War and Reconstruction  History Center because of race relations and slavery.  "In a state where radicals knocked off the Silent Sam Confederate veterans statue in the dead of the night in 2018, and similar statues  were taken down in Winston-Salem and Pittsboro...."

**  City planning several events to mark Liberation and Freedom Day.  (Charlottesville, Va.--  This day near April 13 was celebrated because of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, but the city council, in all their intelligence decided not to honor him (probably because he owned slaves and we all know that anyone who owned slaves was worse than Hitler and the Nazis) even though he had a little to do with that city.

Instead, they choose to honor Union General Sheridan who came to town with the intention of destroying it (and the university as well).  Of course, they said it was because he liberated all the enslaved people.  You'd think they would have more respect for a local boy who did well and had something to do with the establishing of the United States.  You know, that Declaration thing and presidency.

You've Really Got to Wonder About Charlottesville and Virginia.  What In the World?  --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