FINAL UPDATE: So many Confederate monuments, place names and other tthings are disappearing or being toppled or otherise gotten rid of ttthat tthere is no way I can keep up with it. I am spending the whole day collecting documentation for my archives on stuff being taken down and will be working into this evening to get everything filed away.
There might have been a Confederate statue that wasn't spray painted, perhaps in some remote area, but it seems that most got a lot of spray paint.
Some statues have come down.
Here the United Daughters of the Confederacy removed this statue which was at a prominent public place.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/confederate-statue-alexandria-trnd/index.html
They might put it up on private property, but it doesn't have any real power as a private statue as opposed to a statue on public property. When it is on public property it is basically endorsed by the government. On private property it can still do work as a private shrine, so it isn't completely powerless.
On private property the cost of the maintainancce and keeping the statue falls on private individuals. This isn't just the statue itself and the pedestal. A path to the statue and gates and lawns and bushes have to be maintained. Trash has to be picked up. Governments with Confederate statues expend money on them in doing these functions.
It does happen that private groups raise funds for statues on public property such as restoration, but the fact that the statue is on public property gives the statue status making it easier to raise funds.
The neo-Confederates are aging and how much money they will have to maintain statues in the future.
In Birmingham, Alabama another statue wass removed last night or the night before.
https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/watch-live-birmingham-taking-down-confederate-monument.html
The State of Alabama is stating they will sue Birmingham. It will be interesting how this works out.
https://www.wvtm13.com/article/alabama-attorney-general-files-lawsuit-against-city-of-birmingham-after-removal-of-confederate-monument/32746959
The Republican Party will be identified with the Confederacy.
Another story about both statues.
https://apnews.com/810a6cb13ce6cdbde5b534661c5f2da6
I think that if the Democrats get elected, they won't be giving a free pass to Confederate monuments and symbols.
Recently the New York Times had an article about military bases named after Confederates.
They really couldn't care less up until 2015. Now they want the names changed. The centrist Democrats and neoliberals have decided that being anti-Confederate is part of a winning strategy.
Updated 6/3/2020
Athens, Georgia
https://www.redandblack.com/athensnews/mayor-orders-county-to-look-into-removing-confederate-monument-downtown-commissioners-speak-on-sunday-protest/article_1db335a0-a5a9-11ea-845e-bf003e49571c.html
Bentonville, Arkansas
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jun/01/confederate-monument-bentonville-square-be-moved/
Birmingham, Alabama
https://www.today.com/video/birmingham-mayor-discusses-decision-to-remove-confederate-monument-84290629554
Robert E. Lee statue taken down at Lee High School in Montgomery Alabama.
https://www.wsfa.com/2020/06/01/robert-e-lee-statue-taken-down-lee-high-school
Richmond, Virginia
https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/northam-to-order-removal-of-richmonds-robert-e-lee-statue/article_311a23b3-fb8c-5d87-a0cb-ca564241b29a.html
Showing posts with label Virginia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virginia. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy set on fire.
I don't know how long it will be before YouTube pulls down these two videos. Commentary at the end. CLICK ON THE VIDEO TO SEE THE WHOLE THING.
PART 1 https://youtu.be/ElRQPTL80xs
PART 2 https://youtu.be/fOY_ep6Suo4
PART 3 https://youtu.be/fOY_ep6Suo4
PART 4 UDC BUILDING IS REALLY ABLAZE https://youtu.be/Rm4pGR1a_hk
PART 5 FIRE RESPONDERS TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR https://youtu.be/mEroeEtI1GA
Confederate monuments were intensively spray painted in Richmond. In future disturbances over the issue of race Confederate monuments and other places will likely be considered targets.
Previously in civil disturbances prior to 2015 I didn't hear of cases where targeting Confederate memory was part of it. It might have happened, but it certainly wasn't frequent.
PART 1 https://youtu.be/ElRQPTL80xs
PART 2 https://youtu.be/fOY_ep6Suo4
PART 3 https://youtu.be/fOY_ep6Suo4
PART 4 UDC BUILDING IS REALLY ABLAZE https://youtu.be/Rm4pGR1a_hk
PART 5 FIRE RESPONDERS TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR https://youtu.be/mEroeEtI1GA
Confederate monuments were intensively spray painted in Richmond. In future disturbances over the issue of race Confederate monuments and other places will likely be considered targets.
Previously in civil disturbances prior to 2015 I didn't hear of cases where targeting Confederate memory was part of it. It might have happened, but it certainly wasn't frequent.
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Neo-Confederate Pat Buchanan watching the collapse of neo-Confederacy/ Suggesting Civil War in Virginia over gun control.
I have been swamped with a huge project, but now I am going to have more time to keep track of the neo-Confederates.
UPDATE: 1/15/2020. It has started. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939b3y/virginia-declares-state-of-emergency-after-armed-militias-threaten-to-storm-the-capitol
There has been a state of emergency declared in Virginia since it has come to light that Militias have threatened to storm the Capitol.
ORIGINAL POST BELOW:
The neo-Confederates are losing Virginia and they aren't happy about it. Pat Buchanan published this article on the Lew Rockwell site.
UPDATE: 1/15/2020. It has started. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939b3y/virginia-declares-state-of-emergency-after-armed-militias-threaten-to-storm-the-capitol
There has been a state of emergency declared in Virginia since it has come to light that Militias have threatened to storm the Capitol.
ORIGINAL POST BELOW:
The neo-Confederates are losing Virginia and they aren't happy about it. Pat Buchanan published this article on the Lew Rockwell site.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/patrick-j-buchanan/the-culture-war-comes-to-the-old-dominion/
The article starts with a proposal by U.S. Congressional House Rep. Wexton to replace Robert E. Lee in the old capitol building with other possible civil rights heroes and also possibly Nat Turner.
Pat Buchanan spends some time denouncing Nat Turner.
Then he leads into the issue of the 2nd Amendment sanctuary counties and gun control proposals by the Democratic controlled Virginia legislature.
But the Assembly will be dealing soon with measures even more volatile.
On Jan. 20, “Lobby Day” at the Assembly, thousands of gun advocates, many openly armed, will be coming to Richmond to protest new gun laws Northam and his new Democratic majority campaigned on and are determined to deliver.
Already, 110 towns, cities and counties in Virginia have created “Second Amendment sanctuaries” where new state laws that restrict gun rights will not be enforced by local authorities.
Buchanan connects neo-Confederate Confederate nationalism with resistance to gun laws, he states, "Virginia is a former Confederate State with strong rural traditions and lax gun laws. Guns represent the strongest, reddest line against demographic changes."
He states that the a group called the Oath Keepers is sending training teams to Virginia. Also a group called Three Percent is calling on "patriots" to go to Richmond.
He also brings up the issue of abortion during the last tri-mester which he says is supported by the Virginia Democrats.
He sees a new secession coming over these issues in Virginia and in the nation as a whole.
Unlike the seven states of the Deep South, Virginia did not vote to secede and leave the Union until President Lincoln issued his call to arms to put down the rebellion after the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. ...
Today, it appears a new secession is underway. Virginians are separating from each other over issues as deep and divisive — such as who can take innocent life and when — as those that divided us in 1861.
As are the rest of their countrymen in this time of Trump.I think that the potential for violence with the passage of gun control laws by the Virginia legislature as being very real. If violence breaks out what Trump might do will be another factor. He might intervene to overthrow the authority of the state of Virginia.
I have discussed in an earlier posting that the sanctuary movement was a form of secession or nullification and I think the neo-Confederates and other right wing groups are seeing it the same way.
This was my earlier assessment. I think events in Virginia could be explosive. I also think it is a preview of what might happen if Trump loses in 2020 and the Democrats are in control.
http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-sanctuary-movement-secession-and.html#.XhoTPEeeGiM
Friday, September 06, 2019
Jefferson Davis highway is falling apart./ Breitbart is as stupid as ever.
I have realized that if I published a book on the Jefferson Davis highway at this point, it would not work to bring down the Jefferson Davis highway, but keep it alive. So it will never be published. I am not sure what I am going to do with the five or six file boxes of notes I have, but I will have to do something to make sure it isn't used to reincarnate the Jefferson Davis highway metaphysically.
This article is somewhat assuring in that Breitbart hasn't come up with a better idea to keep Confederate monuments than the erasing history idea. I am not going suggest alternatives since I literally don't want to give them any ideas.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/05/virginia-erases-american-history-from-streets-jefferson-davis-highway-now-richmond-highway/
This is important since it makes the rest of the Jefferson Davis highway system less tenable. No chamber of commerce will want their city to be the first city where the highway starts. With the ends of the highway untied, the higway will unravel.
The futility of efforts to keep the built landscape named after some Confederate figure becomes more and more apparent.
I think that psychologically the change of the name of this highway works to undermind the Confederate mouments in Richmond.
Also, everytime anything Confederate gets removed successfully from the environment, it will occur to others that the Confederate named item of the built environment in their city can go.
Finally, as there are fewer and fewer Confederate items, the remaining ones seem more and more anomalous.
This article is somewhat assuring in that Breitbart hasn't come up with a better idea to keep Confederate monuments than the erasing history idea. I am not going suggest alternatives since I literally don't want to give them any ideas.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/05/virginia-erases-american-history-from-streets-jefferson-davis-highway-now-richmond-highway/
This is important since it makes the rest of the Jefferson Davis highway system less tenable. No chamber of commerce will want their city to be the first city where the highway starts. With the ends of the highway untied, the higway will unravel.
The futility of efforts to keep the built landscape named after some Confederate figure becomes more and more apparent.
I think that psychologically the change of the name of this highway works to undermind the Confederate mouments in Richmond.
Also, everytime anything Confederate gets removed successfully from the environment, it will occur to others that the Confederate named item of the built environment in their city can go.
Finally, as there are fewer and fewer Confederate items, the remaining ones seem more and more anomalous.
Friday, February 09, 2018
Eliminating the Confederacy is a great way to get racist stupid people to stay away
http://richmondfreepress.com/news/2018/feb/09/kings-dominion-changes-name-roller-coaster/
This article reports that the Kings Dominion amusement park has changed the name of their roller coaster from "Rebel Yell" to "Racer 75"
On the amusement park's Facebook page are some rantings including threats to never return to Kings Dominion again.
It doesn't seem to occur to these people that their absence might be considered an added benefit of getting rid of a Confederate monument, or getting rid of a Confederate name.
This article shows that there is a steady progress of de-Confederating the built environment. Also, what is important about this change, there doesn't seem to have been any protest movement to push the amusement park to change the name.
Instead, the park itself decided it was an undesirable name. Commercial establishments are deciding to drop the Confederacy on their own because they don't think it is good business. Dolly Parton drops "Dixie" out of the "Dixie Stampede."
As each commercial establishment drops the Confederacy the remaining Confederate things with other businesses seem more and more anomalous and these other businesses face pressure to drop the Confederacy.
Probably, many businesses are quietly dropping the Confederacy across the nation, it just isn't making the news.
Of course less reference to the Confederacy in commercial establishments make the built Confederate landscape on public property less acceptable.
It is a process that is going to feed upon itself.
This article reports that the Kings Dominion amusement park has changed the name of their roller coaster from "Rebel Yell" to "Racer 75"
On the amusement park's Facebook page are some rantings including threats to never return to Kings Dominion again.
It doesn't seem to occur to these people that their absence might be considered an added benefit of getting rid of a Confederate monument, or getting rid of a Confederate name.
This article shows that there is a steady progress of de-Confederating the built environment. Also, what is important about this change, there doesn't seem to have been any protest movement to push the amusement park to change the name.
Instead, the park itself decided it was an undesirable name. Commercial establishments are deciding to drop the Confederacy on their own because they don't think it is good business. Dolly Parton drops "Dixie" out of the "Dixie Stampede."
As each commercial establishment drops the Confederacy the remaining Confederate things with other businesses seem more and more anomalous and these other businesses face pressure to drop the Confederacy.
Probably, many businesses are quietly dropping the Confederacy across the nation, it just isn't making the news.
Of course less reference to the Confederacy in commercial establishments make the built Confederate landscape on public property less acceptable.
It is a process that is going to feed upon itself.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Latino Victory Fund ad attacks Republican Party pandering to neo-Confederates
The Latino Victory Fund has an ad against Ed Gillespie, Republican candidate for Virginia governor.
Ed Gillespie has made campaigning for Confederate monuments a major theme in his current campaign for Virginia governor and his prior campaign for the U.S. Senate.
These are links to the add on different platforms.
This is the Facebook page ad. This will work well to share on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/latinovictory/videos/1473881229333516/
This is a Twitter link
https://twitter.com/latinovictoryus/status/924972736996364289
This is the You Tube link.
https://youtu.be/bYb2ZiQzL4M
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE ENTIRE VIDEO
Of course the conservative movement is screaming about this video.
However, going way back into the 1980s Republican Party members have been pandering to the neo-Confederate movement. U.S. Senators Trent Lott, John Ashcroft, Thad Cochrane, Jesse Helms interviewed in the Southern Partisan.
Trent Lott stated in the Southern Partisan that the Republican Party was the party of Jefferson Davis's descendants.
Then Texas U.S. House Representative Phil Gramm interviewed in the Southern Partisan and also explained that the Republican Party is the party for those who used to vote Democrat before the Civil Rights Era. Texas U.S House Representative Dick Army also interviewed in the Southern Partisan.
Trent Lott and many many Republicans were involved with the Council of Conservative Citizens.
Now Donald Trump and his administration is opposed to removing Confederate statues.
However, the facts here don't seem to be an obstacle for the conservative movement to squeal like stuck pigs over the revelation, somewhat allegorically, what the reality is.
Breitbart, which has pandered to white resentment and pro-Confederates hypocritically runs the headline, "Shameless: Latino Victory Fund Ad Features Ed Gillespie Supporters Chasing Minority Children."
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/30/shameless-latino-victory-fund-ad-features-ed-gillespie-supporters-chasing-minority-children/
Fox News has reported it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/30/democratic-campaign-ad-implies-ed-gillespie-supporters-are-confederates-who-attack-minority-kids.html
Daily Caller is not happy either.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/30/latino-victory-ad-ties-gillespie-to-neo-nazis/
This is somewhat hypocritical also. J. Arthur Bloom Opinion Editor of the Daily Caller"
I blogged on him since he went on a tear about my campaign against churches hosting neo-Confederate events. These are two blogs on it.
This was his comment on his website.
Church-bullying piece of shit Ed Sebesta is naturally thrilled with the campaign. (He tattletaled to the Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop recently about southern parishes allowing the Sons of Confederate Veterans to use church space, and considering the apostate bishop Jefferts-Schori’s heavyhanded and litigious tendencies, it wouldn’t be beneath her to intervene.)
http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2014/06/daily-caller-jordan-bloom-opinion.html#.WfhyLWhSyiN
http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2014/08/daily-caller-opinion-editor-j-arthur.html#.WfhyP2hSyiM
The National Review isn't happy either.
The National Review might re-read its own magazine from the 1950s and 1960s and some of the really ghastly stuff they wrote. I will have to count up some day how many editors of the National Review ended up writing for the Southern Partisan.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453236/latino-group-ad-gillespie-supporters-want-run-down-little-children
Infowars has cover it. George Soros is supposedly involved.
https://www.infowars.com/shock-video-trump-supporter-mows-down-dreamers-in-soros-funded-ad/
Rush Limbaugh calls the ad disgusting.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/10/30/disgusting-ad-run-against-ed-gillespie-in-virginia/
Washington Times runs this article.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/31/ed-gillespie-slams-latino-victory-ad-as-a-new-low/
They use to run a column by Samuel Francis. Their former editor interviewed in the Southern Partisan. They are fairly consistent supporter of the Confederacy.
Newsmax also.
https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/campaign-election-ad-latino-victory-fund/2017/10/30/id/823019/
This brings up an interesting question. It seems that the radical right wants their supporters to be aware of this ad. They are giving it a lot more publicity than it might otherwise get. I suppose that it could be said that they are reporting the news and I think that is true also.
Gillespie is running ads trying to associate his opponent with Latino gangs.
The mainstream media is also reporting this ad, excepting the New York Times which is to be expected. Probably the New York Times is talking to "Mudcat" Sanders.
The Washington Post ran an article on it with the video advertisement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-ad-features-minority-kids-chased-by-truck-with-gillespie-sticker-confederate-flag/2017/10/30/7311fdda-bd6f-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.78533f3b90e8
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported on the ad.
http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/latino-group-s-ad-depicts-confederate-flag-waving-gillespie-supporter/article_20404443-a2c0-51e7-b2a7-6a603e00e940.html
I wonder if Richmond mayor Levar Stoney is regretting his choice to shill for Confederate monuments earlier in the year.
The discussion post-New Orleans, post-Charlottesville, and now with Ed Gillespie running for Virginia Governor it is becoming really clear who Levar Stoney is.
Politico mentions the ad in an article but doesn't have a link to it. The primary topic is U.S. Senator Rubio from Florida campaigning for Gillespie.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/rubio-gillespie-northam-virginia-244350
CNN mentions the ad and has a link to the Washington Post article with the ad.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/politics/virginia-governor-trump-ed-gillespie-ralph-northam/index.html
ABC news has it.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/va-attack-ad-shows-minority-children-chased-truck/story?id=50821176
However, I am not finding it at other news sites.
The Virginia Flaggers are reporting it.
https://www.facebook.com/378823865585630/videos/1138975612903781/
Various Sons of Confederate groups shared it.
https://www.facebook.com/SCVOKDIV/posts/1504599709593213
https://www.facebook.com/groups/90539604190/permalink/10155357220489191/
Clearly the Republican Party is continuing to become more and more the party of the Confederacy as former Republican Mississippi U.S. Senator Trent Lott said it was.
Ed Gillespie has made campaigning for Confederate monuments a major theme in his current campaign for Virginia governor and his prior campaign for the U.S. Senate.
These are links to the add on different platforms.
This is the Facebook page ad. This will work well to share on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/latinovictory/videos/1473881229333516/
This is a Twitter link
https://twitter.com/latinovictoryus/status/924972736996364289
This is the You Tube link.
https://youtu.be/bYb2ZiQzL4M
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE ENTIRE VIDEO
Of course the conservative movement is screaming about this video.
However, going way back into the 1980s Republican Party members have been pandering to the neo-Confederate movement. U.S. Senators Trent Lott, John Ashcroft, Thad Cochrane, Jesse Helms interviewed in the Southern Partisan.
Trent Lott stated in the Southern Partisan that the Republican Party was the party of Jefferson Davis's descendants.
Then Texas U.S. House Representative Phil Gramm interviewed in the Southern Partisan and also explained that the Republican Party is the party for those who used to vote Democrat before the Civil Rights Era. Texas U.S House Representative Dick Army also interviewed in the Southern Partisan.
Trent Lott and many many Republicans were involved with the Council of Conservative Citizens.
Now Donald Trump and his administration is opposed to removing Confederate statues.
However, the facts here don't seem to be an obstacle for the conservative movement to squeal like stuck pigs over the revelation, somewhat allegorically, what the reality is.
Breitbart, which has pandered to white resentment and pro-Confederates hypocritically runs the headline, "Shameless: Latino Victory Fund Ad Features Ed Gillespie Supporters Chasing Minority Children."
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/30/shameless-latino-victory-fund-ad-features-ed-gillespie-supporters-chasing-minority-children/
Fox News has reported it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/30/democratic-campaign-ad-implies-ed-gillespie-supporters-are-confederates-who-attack-minority-kids.html
Daily Caller is not happy either.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/30/latino-victory-ad-ties-gillespie-to-neo-nazis/
This is somewhat hypocritical also. J. Arthur Bloom Opinion Editor of the Daily Caller"
I blogged on him since he went on a tear about my campaign against churches hosting neo-Confederate events. These are two blogs on it.
This was his comment on his website.
Church-bullying piece of shit Ed Sebesta is naturally thrilled with the campaign. (He tattletaled to the Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop recently about southern parishes allowing the Sons of Confederate Veterans to use church space, and considering the apostate bishop Jefferts-Schori’s heavyhanded and litigious tendencies, it wouldn’t be beneath her to intervene.)
http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2014/06/daily-caller-jordan-bloom-opinion.html#.WfhyLWhSyiN
http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2014/08/daily-caller-opinion-editor-j-arthur.html#.WfhyP2hSyiM
The National Review isn't happy either.
The National Review might re-read its own magazine from the 1950s and 1960s and some of the really ghastly stuff they wrote. I will have to count up some day how many editors of the National Review ended up writing for the Southern Partisan.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453236/latino-group-ad-gillespie-supporters-want-run-down-little-children
Infowars has cover it. George Soros is supposedly involved.
https://www.infowars.com/shock-video-trump-supporter-mows-down-dreamers-in-soros-funded-ad/
Rush Limbaugh calls the ad disgusting.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/10/30/disgusting-ad-run-against-ed-gillespie-in-virginia/
Washington Times runs this article.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/31/ed-gillespie-slams-latino-victory-ad-as-a-new-low/
They use to run a column by Samuel Francis. Their former editor interviewed in the Southern Partisan. They are fairly consistent supporter of the Confederacy.
Newsmax also.
https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/campaign-election-ad-latino-victory-fund/2017/10/30/id/823019/
This brings up an interesting question. It seems that the radical right wants their supporters to be aware of this ad. They are giving it a lot more publicity than it might otherwise get. I suppose that it could be said that they are reporting the news and I think that is true also.
Gillespie is running ads trying to associate his opponent with Latino gangs.
The mainstream media is also reporting this ad, excepting the New York Times which is to be expected. Probably the New York Times is talking to "Mudcat" Sanders.
The Washington Post ran an article on it with the video advertisement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-ad-features-minority-kids-chased-by-truck-with-gillespie-sticker-confederate-flag/2017/10/30/7311fdda-bd6f-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.78533f3b90e8
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported on the ad.
http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/latino-group-s-ad-depicts-confederate-flag-waving-gillespie-supporter/article_20404443-a2c0-51e7-b2a7-6a603e00e940.html
I wonder if Richmond mayor Levar Stoney is regretting his choice to shill for Confederate monuments earlier in the year.
The discussion post-New Orleans, post-Charlottesville, and now with Ed Gillespie running for Virginia Governor it is becoming really clear who Levar Stoney is.
Politico mentions the ad in an article but doesn't have a link to it. The primary topic is U.S. Senator Rubio from Florida campaigning for Gillespie.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/rubio-gillespie-northam-virginia-244350
CNN mentions the ad and has a link to the Washington Post article with the ad.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/politics/virginia-governor-trump-ed-gillespie-ralph-northam/index.html
ABC news has it.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/va-attack-ad-shows-minority-children-chased-truck/story?id=50821176
However, I am not finding it at other news sites.
The Virginia Flaggers are reporting it.
https://www.facebook.com/378823865585630/videos/1138975612903781/
Various Sons of Confederate groups shared it.
https://www.facebook.com/SCVOKDIV/posts/1504599709593213
https://www.facebook.com/groups/90539604190/permalink/10155357220489191/
Clearly the Republican Party is continuing to become more and more the party of the Confederacy as former Republican Mississippi U.S. Senator Trent Lott said it was.
Monday, August 21, 2017
Three Critical Cities and the neo-Confederacy's ultimate redoubt. UPDATE:
There are three cities that are critical as ultimate hold outs for Confederacy monuments and the Lost Cause mentality in general. These are: Richmond, Lexington, and Dallas.
Dallas is on the list since not only does it have a in-depth neo-Confederate and Lost Cause past, it is known as a reactionary city. People say that it is the city that the civil rights movement passed by. It is the city which Martin Luther King said the African American community slammed the door in his face. It has the replica Arlington plantation house. Dallas is notorious for far right groups.
Richmond is on the list since it is the former capital of the Confederacy. It has Monument Avenue full of Confederate monuments. It has the Museum of the Confederacy now part of the American Civil War Museum. It has an elite which identifies with the Confederacy.
Lexington, Virginia is like the holy city of the Confederacy. I visited in July 2017 and did extensive photo documentation and bought a lot, a lot of artifacts. There is Washington & Lee University, named after George Washington and Robert E. Lee. There is the Virginia Military Institute which is self-identified with the Confederacy. It has a church with a picture of Confederate soldiers fighting behind the stage. There is the Robert E. Lee Episcopal Church. VMI manages the Virginia Civil War Museum by Market Place.
I would like to say that when I visited the Lee Chapel and the Washington & Lee Campus, I thought of Kevin Levin's condescending comments to some African American law students who were trying to get the university to lose the Lost Cause. I was disgusted.
The whole town is living in a time warp in the Confederacy. There shouldn't be a university like Washington & Lee or a military institute like the Virginia Military Institute in America.
Lexington, Virginia will be the last redoubt of the Lost Cause, a little white Valhalla of the Confederacy.
It seems to be a small upscale town with the two universities and some tourism as the local industry. It is fairly white as far as I can tell.
I think the pressure points are that a Confederate university or institute may not seem very desirable for an academic career and the university and institute might not be well thought of.
When I was there I visited Stonewall House and they told me that the numbers visiting having been declining each year. I think the tourism component of this Lost Cause city of the Confederacy will be declining. I don't think that Confederate identified institutions of higher education make a local climate for start ups.
I think that students will come to see the university as some antique hold over in a back water and not the place to get an education for the future. The students the university and institute get will be those who don't care or aren't put off by going to a Confederate university or institute, in a such a city. The student body will thus acquire a reputation which will further put off many students and intensify the process of self-selection of students who would want to live in such a Confederate bubble like Lexington. The process will feed upon itself.
UPDATE:
Stone Mountain is an important point also in the Lost Cause built environment. This article is very interesting both for what it says about the topic, and also that it comes from the Smithsonian, the publisher of Kevin Levin
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-will-happen-stone-mountain-americas-largest-confederate-memorial-180964588/
Dallas is on the list since not only does it have a in-depth neo-Confederate and Lost Cause past, it is known as a reactionary city. People say that it is the city that the civil rights movement passed by. It is the city which Martin Luther King said the African American community slammed the door in his face. It has the replica Arlington plantation house. Dallas is notorious for far right groups.
Richmond is on the list since it is the former capital of the Confederacy. It has Monument Avenue full of Confederate monuments. It has the Museum of the Confederacy now part of the American Civil War Museum. It has an elite which identifies with the Confederacy.
Lexington, Virginia is like the holy city of the Confederacy. I visited in July 2017 and did extensive photo documentation and bought a lot, a lot of artifacts. There is Washington & Lee University, named after George Washington and Robert E. Lee. There is the Virginia Military Institute which is self-identified with the Confederacy. It has a church with a picture of Confederate soldiers fighting behind the stage. There is the Robert E. Lee Episcopal Church. VMI manages the Virginia Civil War Museum by Market Place.
I would like to say that when I visited the Lee Chapel and the Washington & Lee Campus, I thought of Kevin Levin's condescending comments to some African American law students who were trying to get the university to lose the Lost Cause. I was disgusted.
The whole town is living in a time warp in the Confederacy. There shouldn't be a university like Washington & Lee or a military institute like the Virginia Military Institute in America.
Lexington, Virginia will be the last redoubt of the Lost Cause, a little white Valhalla of the Confederacy.
It seems to be a small upscale town with the two universities and some tourism as the local industry. It is fairly white as far as I can tell.
I think the pressure points are that a Confederate university or institute may not seem very desirable for an academic career and the university and institute might not be well thought of.
When I was there I visited Stonewall House and they told me that the numbers visiting having been declining each year. I think the tourism component of this Lost Cause city of the Confederacy will be declining. I don't think that Confederate identified institutions of higher education make a local climate for start ups.
I think that students will come to see the university as some antique hold over in a back water and not the place to get an education for the future. The students the university and institute get will be those who don't care or aren't put off by going to a Confederate university or institute, in a such a city. The student body will thus acquire a reputation which will further put off many students and intensify the process of self-selection of students who would want to live in such a Confederate bubble like Lexington. The process will feed upon itself.
UPDATE:
Stone Mountain is an important point also in the Lost Cause built environment. This article is very interesting both for what it says about the topic, and also that it comes from the Smithsonian, the publisher of Kevin Levin
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-will-happen-stone-mountain-americas-largest-confederate-memorial-180964588/
Richmond, Virginia, oh what will the neoliberals favorite mayor do?
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney originally came out with a plan for contextualization. But that was several weeks ago. That was before Charlottesville. Confederate monuments are coming down all over the place.
So now he sees both sides of the debate.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-richmond-confederate-monuments-08182017-story.html
Well that was two days ago in the Los Angeles Times.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
This is a Richmond Times-Dispatch article on Mayor Stoney, August 14, 2017 about his being committed to Confederate monument contextualization.
http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/mayor-stoney-richmond-s-confederate-monuments-should-stay-with-context/article_b8cbb743-410f-520f-9197-2a58450d128a.html
So in the end the monuments will go, but Mayor Stoney will not get credit for any vision or being like Mitch Landrieu.
Instead he will be remembered as a mayor who didn't think that the winds can shift and the weather van can suddenly turn around. That is a mayor who didn't have any convictions and guessed wrong on where this issue is headed. The wages of a centrist Democrat who triangulated wrongly.
Perhaps Mayor Stoney can be known as the great waffler.
Some more articles about Richmond and the struggle there.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/richmond-mayor-confederate-monument-debate-trump-doesnt-live/story?id=49313827
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/richmond-could-be-next-confederate-monument-battleground-n793741
At this point even the ACLU is calling for the monuments removal. Wonders never cease.
http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/aclu-calls-for-removal-of-confederate-memorials-in-virginia/article_0f80a646-52d3-5e64-aba2-5d077b3d92d5.html
So now he sees both sides of the debate.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-richmond-confederate-monuments-08182017-story.html
Well that was two days ago in the Los Angeles Times.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
"As memorials toppled across the country, the African American mayor of the former capital of the Confederacy defended his city’s own.
Removal doesn't do “anything for telling the actual truth,” Levar Stoney said.
That was Monday.
Two days later, the Richmond mayor said Confederate monuments had become a “rallying point for division and intolerance” and should be removed.
This is a Richmond Times-Dispatch article on Mayor Stoney, August 14, 2017 about his being committed to Confederate monument contextualization.
http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/mayor-stoney-richmond-s-confederate-monuments-should-stay-with-context/article_b8cbb743-410f-520f-9197-2a58450d128a.html
So in the end the monuments will go, but Mayor Stoney will not get credit for any vision or being like Mitch Landrieu.
Instead he will be remembered as a mayor who didn't think that the winds can shift and the weather van can suddenly turn around. That is a mayor who didn't have any convictions and guessed wrong on where this issue is headed. The wages of a centrist Democrat who triangulated wrongly.
Perhaps Mayor Stoney can be known as the great waffler.
Some more articles about Richmond and the struggle there.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/richmond-mayor-confederate-monument-debate-trump-doesnt-live/story?id=49313827
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/richmond-could-be-next-confederate-monument-battleground-n793741
At this point even the ACLU is calling for the monuments removal. Wonders never cease.
http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/aclu-calls-for-removal-of-confederate-memorials-in-virginia/article_0f80a646-52d3-5e64-aba2-5d077b3d92d5.html
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Maurice Ash of Up n UP News has produced this video of what is happening in Dallas and Charlottesville
This is the link to the video. If you are on Facebook please share.
https://www.facebook.com/UpnUpNews/videos/1993425950873175/
It is about the struggle against Confederate monuments in Dallas and Charlottesville.
https://www.facebook.com/UpnUpNews/videos/1993425950873175/
It is about the struggle against Confederate monuments in Dallas and Charlottesville.
I wonder if Robert E. Lee Episcopal Church is re-thinking keeping their name.
With current events I have been swamped with keeping track of what is happening. However, I want to share this from my 7/25/2017 trip to Lexington, Virginia where I visited the Robert E. Lee Episcopal Church next to the Washington & Lee University campus.
They have a Confederate Christ. The staffer there was annoyed by people being concerned about it.
Notice that the banner with Robert E. Lee is up on the church stage. I think it is time that the Episcopal Church deal with the Confederacy. I would emphasize that they are not as bad as the United Methodist Church. St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia has dealt with the Confederacy and were really great. However, they are hoping to reach an urban demographic, whereas Lexington, Virginia is very white.
My web page on mainstream denominations and the Confederacy.
http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/churches-of-the-confederacy.html
They have a Confederate Christ. The staffer there was annoyed by people being concerned about it.
Notice that the banner with Robert E. Lee is up on the church stage. I think it is time that the Episcopal Church deal with the Confederacy. I would emphasize that they are not as bad as the United Methodist Church. St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia has dealt with the Confederacy and were really great. However, they are hoping to reach an urban demographic, whereas Lexington, Virginia is very white.
My web page on mainstream denominations and the Confederacy.
http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/churches-of-the-confederacy.html
Friday, June 23, 2017
Crazed racist speech made at the Museum of the Confederay
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/is-the-confederacy-obsolete/
The above is a link to an article published in the Southern Partisan in 1994. It is a crazed racist speech made by Ludwell H. Johnson at the Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) in November 1993 upon being named a Museum Scholar of the MOC.
It was published in Southern Partisan, 3rd Quarter 1994, pages 21-26.
It is now published online by the Abbeville Institute accessible in the above link.
For copyright reasons I could not quote it at length in this article about the MOC, link below.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/441/441_museum_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html
As I explain in the Black Commentator article Ludwell Johnson's neo-Confederate views were no secret.
Unfortunately the MOC as part of the American Civil War Museum will be part of the decision how to contextualize the Confederate monuments on Richmond's Monument Ave. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced that there will be a commission because the monuments have a "false narrative."
http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/mayor-stoney-richmond-s-confederate-monuments-can-stay-but-whole/article_80e564f7-69f3-5897-a579-5799a9293b68.html
I see Stoney is employing all the buzz words, like diversity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/richmond-mayor-keep-confederate-statues-but-add-context/2017/06/22/cc30bb72-577b-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html?utm_term=.8ed32cf5dcad
The above post article states:
So insulted he doesn't want them removed evidently.
The Virginia Flagger's protests against Stoney are artfully being used to make Stoney look like he is some champion against neo-Confederates which he obviously isn't.
I think we see the tactics that will be used to retain Confederate monuments.
The above is a link to an article published in the Southern Partisan in 1994. It is a crazed racist speech made by Ludwell H. Johnson at the Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) in November 1993 upon being named a Museum Scholar of the MOC.
It was published in Southern Partisan, 3rd Quarter 1994, pages 21-26.
It is now published online by the Abbeville Institute accessible in the above link.
For copyright reasons I could not quote it at length in this article about the MOC, link below.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/441/441_museum_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html
As I explain in the Black Commentator article Ludwell Johnson's neo-Confederate views were no secret.
Unfortunately the MOC as part of the American Civil War Museum will be part of the decision how to contextualize the Confederate monuments on Richmond's Monument Ave. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced that there will be a commission because the monuments have a "false narrative."
http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/mayor-stoney-richmond-s-confederate-monuments-can-stay-but-whole/article_80e564f7-69f3-5897-a579-5799a9293b68.html
I see Stoney is employing all the buzz words, like diversity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/richmond-mayor-keep-confederate-statues-but-add-context/2017/06/22/cc30bb72-577b-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html?utm_term=.8ed32cf5dcad
The above post article states:
"He said he's personally insulted by the monuments and wishes they had never been built."
So insulted he doesn't want them removed evidently.
The Virginia Flagger's protests against Stoney are artfully being used to make Stoney look like he is some champion against neo-Confederates which he obviously isn't.
I think we see the tactics that will be used to retain Confederate monuments.
"How soon will the alt-right win an election?" article in "Salon"
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/23/how-soon-will-the-alt-right-win-an-election-neo-confederate-corey-stewart-came-shockingly-close-in-virginia/
The above is a link to an article by Matthew Sheffield in Salon, an online publication.
I commented on Stewart's performance in the Virginia governor's election in this blog.
http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2017/06/corey-stewart-loses-by-small-margin-in.html
It is always hard to know if a certain election is the crest of a trend with the trend diminishing in the future or whether it is a sign of things to come.
Stewart did very well for a person for a person who was greatly outspent and was entirely opposed by the Republican Party establishment.
I have been trying to alert the public about the neo-Confederates since the early 1990s and I am glad that someone is finally getting concerned.
I think that Corey Stewart with his defenses of Confederate monuments has made the connection between Confederate monuments and the Alt-right clear. Sheffield with his article alerting the public about Stewart the public will realize that Confederate monuments support the Alt-right.
The above is a link to an article by Matthew Sheffield in Salon, an online publication.
I commented on Stewart's performance in the Virginia governor's election in this blog.
http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2017/06/corey-stewart-loses-by-small-margin-in.html
It is always hard to know if a certain election is the crest of a trend with the trend diminishing in the future or whether it is a sign of things to come.
Stewart did very well for a person for a person who was greatly outspent and was entirely opposed by the Republican Party establishment.
I have been trying to alert the public about the neo-Confederates since the early 1990s and I am glad that someone is finally getting concerned.
I think that Corey Stewart with his defenses of Confederate monuments has made the connection between Confederate monuments and the Alt-right clear. Sheffield with his article alerting the public about Stewart the public will realize that Confederate monuments support the Alt-right.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Corey Stewart loses by a small margin in Virginia
Corey Stewart lost the Virginia Republican Republican primary by a very small margin. But he lost.
One of his issues he campaigned on was the retention of Confederate monuments which he loudly supported. He also strongly identified with Donald Trump in his campaign.
Here are some articles.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/confederate-statue-supporter-nearly-upsets-in-virginia-governor-race
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/a-trump-loving-confederate-sympathizer-nearly-pulled-off-a-huge-upset-in-virginia/
This is a mixed outcome in some ways. The fact that Stewart was defeated is good since he was a supporter of honoring the Confederacy and keeping Confederate monuments. Had he been successful in the primary we could expect other Republicans in Virginia and elsewhere to be stronger supporters of honoring the Confederacy.
It is bad since Stewart didn't have the Republican establishment support, not as much money as the establishment candidate, and by emphasizing the Confederacy nearly won the primary. By being a loud supporter of the Confederacy Stewart got national attention and was able to counter the resources and support of the establishment Republican candidate.
Republicans in Virginia and elsewhere will note this. They may not want to go on record as being big supporters of the Confederacy, but they won't want to be known as opponents either.
Had Stewart been defeated by a large margin, the prospects of the Confederacy in the South would have been greatly diminished.
So Corey's defeat is a defeat for the supporters of the Confederacy, but it isn't much of a victory of the Confederacy either. It is a step down the road which may prove to be a long road.
One of his issues he campaigned on was the retention of Confederate monuments which he loudly supported. He also strongly identified with Donald Trump in his campaign.
Here are some articles.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/confederate-statue-supporter-nearly-upsets-in-virginia-governor-race
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/a-trump-loving-confederate-sympathizer-nearly-pulled-off-a-huge-upset-in-virginia/
This is a mixed outcome in some ways. The fact that Stewart was defeated is good since he was a supporter of honoring the Confederacy and keeping Confederate monuments. Had he been successful in the primary we could expect other Republicans in Virginia and elsewhere to be stronger supporters of honoring the Confederacy.
It is bad since Stewart didn't have the Republican establishment support, not as much money as the establishment candidate, and by emphasizing the Confederacy nearly won the primary. By being a loud supporter of the Confederacy Stewart got national attention and was able to counter the resources and support of the establishment Republican candidate.
Republicans in Virginia and elsewhere will note this. They may not want to go on record as being big supporters of the Confederacy, but they won't want to be known as opponents either.
Had Stewart been defeated by a large margin, the prospects of the Confederacy in the South would have been greatly diminished.
So Corey's defeat is a defeat for the supporters of the Confederacy, but it isn't much of a victory of the Confederacy either. It is a step down the road which may prove to be a long road.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Garrett Epps points out in "The Atlantic" that the fight over monuments is not a fight over the past but a fight over the future.
Garrett Epps, Richmond native, has an article in The Atlantic titled, "The True History of the South Is Not Being Erases: Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, no obscure it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-true-history-of-the-south-is-not-being-erased/529818/
The article concludes
This is not a fight over history; it is a fight over the future. The neo-Confederate faith is not a heritage; it is a political program. And the proper lesson of Southern history is that this radical message—unapologetic, uncompromising, violent white supremacy—lurks in the American bloodstream like a virus, re-emerging at times when the national immune system is weak.
We may be living through an outbreak.
To survive and prosper, the South, and the nation, must renounce this pernicious creed and disarm its symbols. The bronze and marble men do no honor to the region’s true parents; they do, however, dishonor its children.
One way or another, they must yield their unearned pride of place.For those who know my views I have always said it was a fight over the future. I have always said that it is a political program of white supremacy, and that it poisons our future.
Friday, June 09, 2017
Maybe Richmond won't follow the Richmond example
This was published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch today or yesterday.
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/your-opinion/letters-to-the-editor/cod-june-monuments-whitewash-history/article_c5249b40-45f3-5be8-982d-433395236b29.html
The title is "Monuments whitewash history," by John Winn III.
The letter to the editor is given the award "Correspondent of the Day," with a fountain pen drawing. He is listed as a resident of Richmond by the Times-Dispatch. So Levin can't ask Winn his question, "Have you ever been to Richmond?" which he asked Sarah Jones when she proposed taking down the Confederate statues. https://twitter.com/KevinLevin/status/864241228333940737
A single letter, even given the Correspondent of the Day designation, won't by itself bring down the monuments. It will be a voice to bring the Confederate monuments down and that is important.
However, the letter being given the designation Correspondent of the Day may signify that the Richmond Times-Dispatch is shifting on the monuments. They could have just published the letter, but instead decided to give it a special designation. Perhaps they want to be able to position themselves as neutrals going into what they see as an upcoming intensified struggle over the Confederate monuments.
I am sure that those involved in Richmond politics, civic affairs, cultural institutions will note that this letter was given a special designation by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
I doubt that the elites of Richmond wanted Richmond singled out as Confederate monument city before the nation. To be set up as the opposite of New Orleans. To be seen as a new capitol of Confederate monuments as they tumble elsewhere across the nation.Yet, Levin made Richmond the capitol of Confederate monument retention in this article.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-richmond-has-gotten-right-about-interpreting-its-confederate-history-180963354/
I doubt African American Mayor Dwight C. Jones wanted to be set up as the opposite of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
The Virginia Defenders are quite aware of Levin's Smithsonian article. They took pains to explain to me that they wanted the monuments down. I am sure that Jones political opponents in the African American community have taken note of this article.
I have always said that pressing on the issue of Confederate symbols, place names, and monuments would be a lens to see who people really are.
The Smithsonian magazine article really pulled away the curtain and exposed Richmond's soul.
This maybe the first visible fracture in the defenses of the capitol of the Confederate monuments.
For those in Richmond who want to get their Confederate monuments taken down I recommend this article.
http://thegrio.com/2017/05/26/hundreds-of-confederate-statues-still-standing/#oQWeYWxF2IXyGtRl.01
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/your-opinion/letters-to-the-editor/cod-june-monuments-whitewash-history/article_c5249b40-45f3-5be8-982d-433395236b29.html
The title is "Monuments whitewash history," by John Winn III.
The letter to the editor is given the award "Correspondent of the Day," with a fountain pen drawing. He is listed as a resident of Richmond by the Times-Dispatch. So Levin can't ask Winn his question, "Have you ever been to Richmond?" which he asked Sarah Jones when she proposed taking down the Confederate statues. https://twitter.com/KevinLevin/status/864241228333940737
A single letter, even given the Correspondent of the Day designation, won't by itself bring down the monuments. It will be a voice to bring the Confederate monuments down and that is important.
However, the letter being given the designation Correspondent of the Day may signify that the Richmond Times-Dispatch is shifting on the monuments. They could have just published the letter, but instead decided to give it a special designation. Perhaps they want to be able to position themselves as neutrals going into what they see as an upcoming intensified struggle over the Confederate monuments.
I am sure that those involved in Richmond politics, civic affairs, cultural institutions will note that this letter was given a special designation by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
I doubt that the elites of Richmond wanted Richmond singled out as Confederate monument city before the nation. To be set up as the opposite of New Orleans. To be seen as a new capitol of Confederate monuments as they tumble elsewhere across the nation.Yet, Levin made Richmond the capitol of Confederate monument retention in this article.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-richmond-has-gotten-right-about-interpreting-its-confederate-history-180963354/
I doubt African American Mayor Dwight C. Jones wanted to be set up as the opposite of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
The Virginia Defenders are quite aware of Levin's Smithsonian article. They took pains to explain to me that they wanted the monuments down. I am sure that Jones political opponents in the African American community have taken note of this article.
I have always said that pressing on the issue of Confederate symbols, place names, and monuments would be a lens to see who people really are.
The Smithsonian magazine article really pulled away the curtain and exposed Richmond's soul.
This maybe the first visible fracture in the defenses of the capitol of the Confederate monuments.
For those in Richmond who want to get their Confederate monuments taken down I recommend this article.
http://thegrio.com/2017/05/26/hundreds-of-confederate-statues-still-standing/#oQWeYWxF2IXyGtRl.01
Friday, May 26, 2017
"Why are hundreds of Confederate statues still standing?" Quoted twice in this article. I describe the emerging set of arguments set forth by academics as rationalizations for these monuments.
http://thegrio.com/2017/05/26/hundreds-of-confederate-statues-still-standing/#oQWeYWxF2IXyGtRl.01
The link to the article is above.
I will have to elaborate for this posting later. I am currently tied up with a project.
I did supply many links to the writings of different scholars, blog postings, news articles.
The link to the article is above.
I will have to elaborate for this posting later. I am currently tied up with a project.
I did supply many links to the writings of different scholars, blog postings, news articles.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Burn Confederate flags on memorial day, so many to burn also
I will be burning Confederate flags on memorial day and putting it on Youtube. I will be burning and doing periscope broadcasting also.
I invite other people to burn and record it and put it on Youtube or facebook.
A lot of people know about the Confederate battle flag, but there are a fair number of other flags that you can burn and let people know about. You can burn over a dozen flags with Confederate origins.
I include a link so you can download, print and burn..
1. Bonnie Blue flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bonnie_Blue_flag_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America.svg
This flag, and when you see it don't let them tell you it is the flag of Somalia, which is similar, is a Confederate flag. I have seen it flow when I was walking off the campus of a university in the South. It was being flown by a fraternity which has a reputation. They were standing in the front of the house and you could sort of tell from their expressions they thought they were pulling off something. Flying a Confederate flag but no one knew it.
2. 1st, 2nd and 3rd national flags of the Confederacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
The 1st national Confederate flag is also popular for people and institutions to fly when they want to fly a Confederate flag and avoid a reaction. Evidently the idea that flying one flag in support of a nation dedicated to the purpose to preserve white supremacy and slavery is okay if the general public doesn't recognize it. They are not concerned that Civil War buffs recognize it because they generally don't care.
3. The Van Dorn battle flag, Flag of the First Corps Army of Tennessee, Flag of the 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles, J.P. Gills Flag, Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, also called the Robert E. Lee Headquarters Flag."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
4. Mississippi state flag. Sort of obvious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi
5. This is the Confederate flag of Georgia and the state flag of Georgia.
Confederate flag of Georgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
State flag of Georgia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)
You can see that it still incorporates an element of a Confederate flag.
The state flag of Georgia got ride of the obvious Confederate battle flag symbol but still incorporates the Confederacy.
6. The Confederate flag of South Carolina.
South Carolina Confederate flags. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
Current flag of South Carolina. Adopted in Jan. 28, 1861.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Carolina
7. The flag of the Citadel.
Civil War flag of the Citadel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Carolina
Also the Big Red flag of the Citadel today. Somewhat a resemblance since it is an intentional replica.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Red_Flag.jpg
8. First Confederate Navy Jack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jack_of_the_CSA_Navy_1861_1863.svg
9. First Confederate Navy Ensign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America_(March_1861_%E2%80%93_May_1861).svg
10. The state flag of Virginia was adopted when it was a Confederate state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America_(March_1861_%E2%80%93_May_1861).svg
You will note that the slogan on the flag is also the slogan of John Wilkes Booth who stated it when he shot Abraham Lincoln.
11. State flag of Arkansas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Arkansas
12. State flag of Alabama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Alabama
They are passing legislation to protect Confederate monuments so burn two of them.
13. State flag of North Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_North_Carolina
If you were surprised that your state was a Confederate flag or containing Confederate elements a burning of the flag will help educate the public.
I invite other people to burn and record it and put it on Youtube or facebook.
A lot of people know about the Confederate battle flag, but there are a fair number of other flags that you can burn and let people know about. You can burn over a dozen flags with Confederate origins.
I include a link so you can download, print and burn..
1. Bonnie Blue flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bonnie_Blue_flag_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America.svg
This flag, and when you see it don't let them tell you it is the flag of Somalia, which is similar, is a Confederate flag. I have seen it flow when I was walking off the campus of a university in the South. It was being flown by a fraternity which has a reputation. They were standing in the front of the house and you could sort of tell from their expressions they thought they were pulling off something. Flying a Confederate flag but no one knew it.
2. 1st, 2nd and 3rd national flags of the Confederacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
The 1st national Confederate flag is also popular for people and institutions to fly when they want to fly a Confederate flag and avoid a reaction. Evidently the idea that flying one flag in support of a nation dedicated to the purpose to preserve white supremacy and slavery is okay if the general public doesn't recognize it. They are not concerned that Civil War buffs recognize it because they generally don't care.
3. The Van Dorn battle flag, Flag of the First Corps Army of Tennessee, Flag of the 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles, J.P. Gills Flag, Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, also called the Robert E. Lee Headquarters Flag."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
4. Mississippi state flag. Sort of obvious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi
5. This is the Confederate flag of Georgia and the state flag of Georgia.
Confederate flag of Georgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
State flag of Georgia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)
You can see that it still incorporates an element of a Confederate flag.
The state flag of Georgia got ride of the obvious Confederate battle flag symbol but still incorporates the Confederacy.
6. The Confederate flag of South Carolina.
South Carolina Confederate flags. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
Current flag of South Carolina. Adopted in Jan. 28, 1861.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Carolina
7. The flag of the Citadel.
Civil War flag of the Citadel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Carolina
Also the Big Red flag of the Citadel today. Somewhat a resemblance since it is an intentional replica.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Red_Flag.jpg
8. First Confederate Navy Jack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jack_of_the_CSA_Navy_1861_1863.svg
9. First Confederate Navy Ensign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America_(March_1861_%E2%80%93_May_1861).svg
10. The state flag of Virginia was adopted when it was a Confederate state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America_(March_1861_%E2%80%93_May_1861).svg
You will note that the slogan on the flag is also the slogan of John Wilkes Booth who stated it when he shot Abraham Lincoln.
11. State flag of Arkansas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Arkansas
12. State flag of Alabama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Alabama
They are passing legislation to protect Confederate monuments so burn two of them.
13. State flag of North Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_North_Carolina
If you were surprised that your state was a Confederate flag or containing Confederate elements a burning of the flag will help educate the public.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Virginia Sons of Confederate Veterans hypocrisy
http://www.nbc29.com/story/35441821/sons-of-confederate-veterans-issues-statement-on-lee-park-protest
The Virginia Sons of Confederate Veterans issued a statement which among other things condemned the Alt-Right protesters led by Richard Spencer that had a torch light parade supporting the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Virginia Sons of Confederate Veterans issued a statement which among other things condemned the Alt-Right protesters led by Richard Spencer that had a torch light parade supporting the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia.
It is the duty of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to emulate the high moral standards of those who fought and died to protect their home land. We represent Southern Heritage NOT White Supremacy. People of all races, religions, and colors fought to defend their Southern homes in the War for Southern Independence.
Those who show up with torches and making inflammatory statements are in no way connected with or indorsed by the SCV. These people only serve to play right into the hands of those who would label us all as racists. In the end, they may do more to bring down monuments than the actions of our enemies.
What hypocrisy. The public doesn't know that the SCV offers for sale the pro-KKK movie "Birth of a Nation" and endorses it. They don't know that the SCV offers for sale the anti-Semitic book, "South Under Siege," which is also a flaming racist book, a book which has been praised in their publications The public doesn't know about the articles that were published in Southern Mercury magazine, published by the SCV's Education PAC.
What hypocrisy. The public doesn't know that the SCV offers for sale the pro-KKK movie "Birth of a Nation" and endorses it. They don't know that the SCV offers for sale the anti-Semitic book, "South Under Siege," which is also a flaming racist book, a book which has been praised in their publications The public doesn't know about the articles that were published in Southern Mercury magazine, published by the SCV's Education PAC.
The public doesn't know that the SCV offers for sale books that portray the white supremacist terrorist Red Shirts as heroes.
The SCV does know that having Richard Spencer marching for any Confederate statue is a likely to further encourage to bring down Confederate monuments.
If the public knew what I know about the SCV and the United Daughters of the Confederacy the Confederate monuments would come down quickly. I hope to let the public know what I know.
Washington and Lee University doesn't want New Orleans Confedederate mo
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/confederate_monuments_robert_e_1.html
The above article reports that Washington and Lee University doesn't want the New Orleans Confederate statues.
I suspect that these monuments are politically radioactive. The article says the city of New Orleans has reached out to Washington and Lee University, Beauvoir, and the Smithsonian.
I rather doubt the Smithsonian wants these monuments unless they plan an exhibit that really focuses on their history as icons of white supremacy, which I think would be too hot for the Smithsonian.
I think Beauvoir would be interested, but I don't know if they can afford the transportation, though I suspect the city of New Orleans would be willing to underwrite some of the cost.
Meanwhile in Baltimore the city stalls in removing any Confederate monuments.
The above article reports that Washington and Lee University doesn't want the New Orleans Confederate statues.
I suspect that these monuments are politically radioactive. The article says the city of New Orleans has reached out to Washington and Lee University, Beauvoir, and the Smithsonian.
I rather doubt the Smithsonian wants these monuments unless they plan an exhibit that really focuses on their history as icons of white supremacy, which I think would be too hot for the Smithsonian.
I think Beauvoir would be interested, but I don't know if they can afford the transportation, though I suspect the city of New Orleans would be willing to underwrite some of the cost.
Meanwhile in Baltimore the city stalls in removing any Confederate monuments.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Kevin M. Levin attempts to talk down to Sarah Jones of the "New Republic" magazine
Kevin M. Levin attempts to patronize Sarah Jones of the "New Republic." You can read the exchange here on Twitter if you are a member. I printed it out for my records.
https://twitter.com/KevinLevin/status/864241228333940737
In this conversation he is the expert talking down to Sarah Jones. He also uses his usual tactic avoiding debate on the issues by either questioning the competency of the individual or their right to debate the issue.
You really have to read the entire series this is one example. Not the capitalization of "WHY" and the expression "you would do well to consider."
Levin pulls out what he thinks will flatten Jones by asking whether she has been to Richmond. If Jones hasn't then she is some type of outside agitator. This is the theme of "Sweet Home Alabama" that Jones is an outsider.
Turns out that Sarah Jones is from Virginia and has been to Richmond many times.
Then it is more patronizing stuff.
Levin's patronizing of Sarah Jones is this article by Jones in New Republic.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/142710/yes-tear-confederate-monuments
Sarah Jones in the article is basically calling Gary Shapiro of the University of Richmond a fool. She doesn't use the term, just calls his arguments "deeply confused."
Though Shapiro does not deny the horrors of slavery or hold up the Confederacy as an entity worthy of praise, his argument is deeply confused. If these monuments are “memorials,” whom do they memorialize? Certainly not the victims of slavery.
Levin blogs on this encounter.
http://cwmemory.com/2017/05/15/is-richmond-next/
From his blog:
I do not mean to suggest that all parties in Richmond are satisfied or that mistakes have not been made. What I do think is important to acknowledge is that the city has made a concerted effort to think carefully about how history is interpreted and how it is commemorated in public spaces. None of this is acknowledged in the New Republic piece.
Turns out that Sarah Jones doesn't think much of what the little cliques in Richmond have done.
And Levin is bent out of shape that Sarah Jones doesn't think much of the efforts of the local historical societies and what cliques they make up and of which he is in good standing.
He can't comprehend that some figures in the larger national establishment are just coming out and saying these statues need to go and really don't care what rationalizations or excuses or clever strategems the local historical cliques have come up with.
I wonder how long it is going to be before The Atlantic decides that Levin is retrograde.
Convoluted stuff and nonsense arguments aren't going to convince people other than those who love the Confederacy or fear loss of white control over the landscape. That is white nationalists and banal white nationalists. http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/breaking-the-white-nation.html
https://twitter.com/KevinLevin/status/864241228333940737
In this conversation he is the expert talking down to Sarah Jones. He also uses his usual tactic avoiding debate on the issues by either questioning the competency of the individual or their right to debate the issue.
You really have to read the entire series this is one example. Not the capitalization of "WHY" and the expression "you would do well to consider."
Levin pulls out what he thinks will flatten Jones by asking whether she has been to Richmond. If Jones hasn't then she is some type of outside agitator. This is the theme of "Sweet Home Alabama" that Jones is an outsider.
Turns out that Sarah Jones is from Virginia and has been to Richmond many times.
Then it is more patronizing stuff.
Levin's patronizing of Sarah Jones is this article by Jones in New Republic.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/142710/yes-tear-confederate-monuments
Sarah Jones in the article is basically calling Gary Shapiro of the University of Richmond a fool. She doesn't use the term, just calls his arguments "deeply confused."
Though Shapiro does not deny the horrors of slavery or hold up the Confederacy as an entity worthy of praise, his argument is deeply confused. If these monuments are “memorials,” whom do they memorialize? Certainly not the victims of slavery.
Levin blogs on this encounter.
http://cwmemory.com/2017/05/15/is-richmond-next/
From his blog:
I do not mean to suggest that all parties in Richmond are satisfied or that mistakes have not been made. What I do think is important to acknowledge is that the city has made a concerted effort to think carefully about how history is interpreted and how it is commemorated in public spaces. None of this is acknowledged in the New Republic piece.
Turns out that Sarah Jones doesn't think much of what the little cliques in Richmond have done.
And Levin is bent out of shape that Sarah Jones doesn't think much of the efforts of the local historical societies and what cliques they make up and of which he is in good standing.
He can't comprehend that some figures in the larger national establishment are just coming out and saying these statues need to go and really don't care what rationalizations or excuses or clever strategems the local historical cliques have come up with.
I wonder how long it is going to be before The Atlantic decides that Levin is retrograde.
Convoluted stuff and nonsense arguments aren't going to convince people other than those who love the Confederacy or fear loss of white control over the landscape. That is white nationalists and banal white nationalists. http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/breaking-the-white-nation.html
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
.svg){kind=link}