Confederate Heritage Under Attack-- Part 3:The Caddo Statue

August 31, 2019 Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  Dismantling the myth of "Black Confederates."

**  Caddo Confederate statue's owners disappointed with parish leaders.

**  Daughters of the Confederacy ordered to move monument at Caddo.

**  Changing Hanover school names "won't change anything."

**  The KKK came to my town.  But hate has no home here.

**  Attorneys continue to argue finer points as lawsuit over Confederate statue nears.

**  Candidate used racially offensive terms on radio show.

--Old Secesh

Confederate Heritage Under Attack-- Part 2: Confederate Railroad Band

These are the August 30, 2019, Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  Maryland museum considers removing Confederate flag from logo.

**  Fair For All Campaign calls Cornel (University) 'uncooperative' in stopping Confederate flag sales at sponsored state fairs.  This group wants sales to stop.  Accompanied by photo of Confederate flags next to MAGA hats.

**  Confederate band to play at Chance.  (Confederate Railroad)

**  Confederate Railroad ready to play next week at Black Diamond Harley-Davidson in Marion (Illinois).

**  Students were punished for pro-LGBTQ t-shirts at a school that allows Confederate flags on clothes.

**  Wreck of paddle steamer throws light on British support for Confederate slave states during U.S. Civil War.

It Just Doesn't End.  --Old Secesh

Confederate Heritage Under Attack-- Part 1: Ole Miss To Embarrass Self

I receive Google Alerts for Confederate every day.  And every day there are more attacks on my heritage.  I usually don't read them as I get too angry.

But, just in case you think these attacks are over just because your local newspaper or media outlet doesn't talk about them, believe me that these are continuing.

These are the ones from August 29, 2019:

**  Early Confederate flag removed from Indiana war monument.  (They didn't realize what the first National Flag looked like.)

**  Ole Miss announces plans to relocate Confederate statue.

**  Federal lawsuit against Hanover schools to change Confederate named schools.

**  H2H Scott:  Should Confederate statues remain standing.

**  Confederate Railroad won't accept payment from fair that canceled their show.  (Guess why they were canceled?)

**  Daughters of the Confederacy said a year ago that they owned the Franklin Square.  Here's where the case stands.

See.  Not Over At All.  --Old Secesh

Heritage Attacks On the Confederacy-- Part 1: May 29, 2019

I am only writing about these attacks three days in a row.  To read them really sends my blood pressure up.

Just to let you know that these  attacks are continuing and will so  until we can get something to stop  them.

These are Confederate Google Alerts from May 29, 2019.

Fortunately, most of these listed  today do not require the removal of a statue or memorial to the gray.

**  The best e-mails I've received about Dallas' Confederate Memorial.

**  Letter:  Removing Confederate flags does not erase history.

**  Debate continues over Confederate statue 'Fame' in downtown Salisbury (N.C.).

**  Sims:  We shouldn't honor the worst of traitors.

**  Letter:  Proud of my Confederate ancestors.

More From Today.  --  RoadDog

Removal of Confederate Mound in Chicago-- Part 2

Both groups are planning on peaceful events in April.

Said, SCV Camp Douglas Commander Matthew Evans:  "We respect their right to the First Amendment.  We respect their right to gather, but it is a two-way road.  We hope that they can respect our presence there at Confederate Mound and realize that this ceremony is not to divide or open old wounds, but to pay respect for the dead.

"Confederate Mound is not a monument, but a headstone for 6,000 men who never got to go home."

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I came across this article in the April 5,2018, Suburban Chicagoland paper.

"Later in the month, on April 22, Smash White Supremacy will come together to stand against the annual white supremacist gathering held by the Sons of the Confederacy.  This will be from 11-1 at the confederate mound in the cemetery."

I Sure Didn't Know That Honoring Your Dead, Especially Thousands Who Died As Prisoners Was a White Supremacist Thing.  --Old Secesh

Last Year It Was A Planned Confrontation At the Confederate Monument in Chicago

The Camp Douglas  Camp #516 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, with members throughout Chicagoland, has been holding a memorial service at the Confederate Mound in Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago for many years and, until last year, there has never been a problem, even though this cemetery is located deep within a black neighborhood.

It has been a peaceful commemoration with much solemnity.  That is, until last year.  At that time a group arrived on the scene, supposedly to have a service at the grave of Ida B. Wells, but in reality the reason they were there was to break up the Confederate service and provoke a confrontation.

They had never been there before and neither Ida B. Wells' birthday or death occurs in April.  They had loudspeakers and were chanting right in the middle of the Confederate proceedings.  Strange that it would happen in this time and age.

But, if you read my three previous posts before yesterday, you will see it is all part of the bigger movement to bury and disgrace all things Confederate.  It is so sad that some people can not allow  others to commemorate their heritage.

And, I also believe that Ida B. Wells deserves to be better known than she is.  She was one brave woman to go after the horrible lynchings that took place in the South during her time.  And the fact that she was a black person and a woman, made her going to the South a very dangerous trip.  I'd support a statue at the cemetery or on a public space.

It is too bad that it took the opportunity to cause a confrontation to get the other group fired up enough to go out and do something for a real hero, Ida B. Weells.

--Old Secesh

The Confederate Heritage Attacks Continue-- Part 3

I listed the headlines of just three days from the Google Alert for Confederate to show that these horrible attacks continue unabated.  These are, as I said, headlines.  Type in the headline to read search for the article.

From the April 26, 2019, Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  Controversial 'Confederate Memorial Day' honors soldiers killed during Civil War.

**  Arlington Co. (Va.) votes to remove Confederate president's name from highway.

**  James Byrd's murder shows why Confederate holiday should end.

**  Mississippi state flag, with Confederate emblem, at Georgetown's Howard Center draws criticism.

**  2 guilty for toppling North Carolina's campus's Confederate statue.

**  County judge says deal struck to move Confederate statue from Pine Bluff courthouse.

**  'Confederate militia' boss who abused immigrants at gunpoint attacked in jail.

They Just Go On.  --Old Secesh

Sad Attacks on All Things Confederate Continue-- Part 2

From April 25, 2019, Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  Jefferson Co. judge plans to remove the Confederate statue from courthouse.

**  Confederate monument on Tyler square vandalized.  (I wish they'd quit calling these events vandalism, they are  nothing short of Hate Crimes.)

**  Confederate Memorial Day service held in Milton on Saturday.

**  Un-Celebrating Confederate Heroes Day at the Lege.

**  Ask the Question:  Confederate fountain in Helena.

**  Just because it says 'Tennessee' doesn't mean it's Confederate.

You Think It's Over?  --Old Secesh

It Isn't Over, the Despicable Attacks on Confederate Heritage Continue-- Part 1

Many people may think all this anti-Confederate hatred has run its course, at least around here in northern Illinois, because you don't hear much about it.  But, believe me, it is NOT over in the least.

I get a Google Alert for the word Confederate every day.  I usually don't read it though because I get too angry.  But once a month now I will give just the headlines from those alerts.  I'll do it for today and the two days before it.

 APRIL 24, 2019

**  Mississippi, the only state with a Confederate symbol in its flag, is offering a new flag design on it.

**  2 men arrested for putting KKK hoods on Confederate statues.

**  School marks Confederate Memorial Day with lynching teach-in.

**  Laramie County School District banning Confederate flags, allowing rainbow flags.  This is a poll and you can vote on what you think.

**  Confederate commander's distant relative opens eyes with new book.  (Robert E. Lee)

**  Statues of Johnny cash and Daisy Bates will replace Confederate statues in U.S. Capitol.

--Old Secesh

Attacks on Confederate Heritage Continue-- Part 1: March 22, 2019

Many people thing that all this Confederate hatred is no longer there, but, believe me, it continue and is getting worse.   Just because your local radio or TV news doesn't have anything about it, doesn't mean it isn't happening elsewhere.

If  you want to keep up with it, have the Google Alert for Confederate delivered to your inbox.

Here are the Google Alert headlines for Confederate for March 22, 2019:

**  Ole Miss will move Confederate statue out of campus center after protests.

**  Confederate group brings guns to campus, no arrests made.

**  Bid to strip Confederate link from Arkansas flag fails again.

**  North Texas billboard backs Confederate heritage, impugns Dallas.

**  Workers mobilize to  move Confederate monument in Lakeland.

**  Confederate monument in North Carolina vandalized again.

**  Lewd billboard supporting 'Confederate heritage' pops up on Texas highway.

**  Confederate statue is defaced in Salisbury.

Horrible.  --Old Secesh

Civil War II-- 569: Don't Bury the Past, Try To Understand It-- Part 1

From the August 21, 2017, Google Alerts for Civil War North Carolina.

From the August 29, 2017, Salisbury (NC) Post, Post Opinion.

The North Carolina governor wants all Confederate monuments taken down.

The real cause of the Civil War was the geographic differences between North and South.  Agriculture was suited for the Southern climate and was the economic means by which the South made its money.  Slavery made that money.  Slavery made the South economically thrive.

The North's climate was not as conducive to agriculture.  Industry grew in New England, powered by an unending flow of free labor from immigrants coming over the Atlantic.  The North did not need slavery.

However, the North was not innocent when it came to slavery.  At one time New York City was one of the largest cities in the world to which slaves were imported.  Also, many Northern ships were used in the slave trade.

By the time of the Civil War, slavery was confined to the 14 states where the climate would support large scale farming which was, in those pre-machinery days, labor intensive.  Slaves provided that labor.

--Old Secesh

About That Mississippi State Flag

I can understand why blacks are offended by the flag what with its incorporation of the Confederate Flag in it.

My solution to the problem is to have a state-wide vote on it.  If the majority vote to change it, I would accept that vote.  However, if the majority vote to keep it the way it is, then the opponents would have to agree to leave it alone until another vote can be arranged.

Personally, I think it is a really nice-looking flag, a whole lot better than some state flags.

Keep the Flag (Or Vote It Away).  --Old Secesh

What It Is ... Is Aggression

Just as Abraham Lincoln's Union government waged a war of aggression to subjugate the former Southern states in their attempt to start a new county, we have another war of aggression transpiring against us now.  And the saddest part is that there are so many Southerners supporting Blacklash against us.

This is a war we can't win, just as our forefathers fought.  But, we will continue to do all in our power to resist it.

Hell, No!  Not Giving Up.  --Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack-- Part 2

This movement against the Confederate flag has grown so big that opponents are now after all things connected with the effort to start a new nation back in the 1860s.

These are headlines taken from my Yahoo and Google Alerts.

The Confederate flag debate has reached Congress.  There is a House of Representatives resolution requiring the removal of any state flag at the Capitol which features part of the Confederate flag.

North Carolina is sorting out how to end its Sons of Confederate Veterans license plates.

Southern states are distancing themselves from the Confederate flag.  (These last two really hurt me.  I can see if a Northern state does this, but not one of the former Confederate ones.)

Film maker Ken Burns says the Confederate flag is not about history, but resistance to the Civil Rights Movement.  (I would say he was right about the flag being a part of the resistance to Civil Rights, but how could he, of all people, say it is not about history?  He sure made a lot of money in his Civil War films and they featured the flag at points.)

Only one 2016 Presidential hopeful is defending the flag.  Jim Webb, former Virginia senator already had only the smallest of chances of winning the Democratic nomination.  Now there is no chance.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack-- Part 1

The Confederate flag flying on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds is just the tip of the iceberg.  It won't be long before certain groups will be demanding that any and all Confederate symbols, names, etc. be removed from everything.

I am changing these posts to Confederacy Under Attack.

Al Sharpton's group demands that the military remove all Confederate references from military bases.

But, at least for now, the Army is standing up against all Confederate detractors and staying with their bases named after Confederate generals.

The famous General lee Charger from the "Dukes of Hazzard" is losing its famous Confederate flag on its top.  Warner Brothers will cease leasing its image.

A North Charleston, S.C., was fired for posing in Confederate flag underwear on his FaceBook page.  That was taking it way too far, especially considering North Charleston is located right by Charleston where the murders took place.  An extremely poor choice and taste on his part.

--Old Secesh

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The Confederate Flag Under Attack-- Part 6

Apple has removed a number of games in their App store for having references to the Confederate battle flag, but later reinstated some of them.

I imagine there will be another effort to have the band Lynyrd Skynyrd stop having concerts with the flag behind them.  It was attempted before and the band removed it, but had to put it back due to fan unrest.

It was pointed out that more than half of the counties in North Carolina to fallen Confederate soldiers and there is one at the N.C. Capitol ever since 1895.  Most of them were erected between 1890-1930.  Guess what somebody wants done with them?

The Valley Forge Flag Company joined Wal-Mart, Amazon and e-Bay in banning the Confederate flag and will no longer make them.  They are one of the biggest flag makers in the United States.

--Old Secesh

The Confederate Flag Under Attack-- Part 5

Georgia Democrats calling for end of state support of Confederate holidays.  State Senator Vincent Fort, black, calls for the Georgia Department of Revenue demanding the elimination of SCV Confederate Flag plates.

NAACP calls for large Confederate flag north of Fredericksburg, Virginia, be removed.

--Old Secesh

The Chicago Casualty Figures for the 4th of July Weekend Are In

A lot has been made of the horrible tragedy in Charleston where a white supremacist killed nine blacks in a church.  It was horrible.

But, every week, blacks kill other blacks in Chicago.  Most of it is gang-related and often innocents are killed or wounded.

I just read that this past weekend, 10 people were killed in Chicago and another 54 wounded.  We didn't even have those kinds of casualties in the Afghanistan and Iraq war zones most of the time.  And these are from a U.S. city, supposedly not a war zone.  Most of these people are also black.

Now, I know that gangs like to listen to Rap Music and we all know about the content of that kind of music.  And, I am offended when I have to listen to these songs, either on a jukebox or from a passing group of people or cars.   Perhaps there should be a movement like that against the Confederate flag to eliminate that as well.

Something to Think About.

The Confederate Flag Under Attack-- Part 4: "The United States of the Offended"

Woman climbs the flag pole at the S.C. statehouse and takes the Confederate flag down... She climbed the 30-foot pole and took it down and was arrested when she reached bottom as it is illegal to do so.

A North Carolina man has 150 Confederate flags on his property in Rocky Mount.  Edward West, 71, lives in a predominately black part of town and had them up before the murders and will not take them down.  At least Rocky Mount officials say it is still legal to fly them.

Confederate flag supporters rallied for it in Gastonia, North Carolina, with signs such as "Don't Erase Our History" and "United States of the Offended."

One of the next battles to be fought in the Confederate controversy will take place in Brooklyn where Borough President Eric Adams, black, demands that the General Lee Avenue and Stonewall Jackson Drive be removed from Fort Hamilton.  Lee was an engineering officer there from 1841-1847.  Jackson was an acting company commander there as well.

Message From SCV Commander-in-Chief Charles Kelly Barrow on the Killings

From the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Facebook Page.

"Thus the Sons of Confederate Veterans condemn the tragedy and we share in the mourning of the families affected by this tragedy that occurred in Historic Charleston, S.C.."

And then, he continued that we "have observed a renewed assault on all vestiges of our Confederate Heritage  in the wake of this time of mourning.  Those that are antagonistic towards our emblems of heritage have begun to wage an ethnic cultural cleansing, the likes of which have been unseen in quite some time.

"One by one, we have watched as stores have banned the sales of Confederate themed merchandise.  Legislatures have begun calls anew to change the locations of displays of Confederate related Statues, memorials, Automobile plates, Flags and other related icons of Southern heritage.."

I too, am shocked and saddened by the killings by the deranged idiot, who in no way represents me or most Southerners.  But this attack on our history need to abate.  They were a;ready going on before the killings but I am dismayed at the preponderance now going on across the country.

I am even willing to have the Confederate flag at the S.C. Statehouse taken down for good.  But I draw the line at it being expunged everywhere and in all instances.

I do think, however, Confederate flags everywhere, especially along the interstates should be lowered to half mast or removed for a period of time.