I am still posting new information, but you can start with this posting and from there look at newer postings.
https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-neo-confederate-movement-is-hostile.html
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Kaufman County Confederate Injustice Center
So after I did my photo documentation of the neo-Confederate anti-Dallas billboard I returned and stopped by the Kaufman County Confederate Courthouse. The court house is a bracket shape wrapped around this court yard.
So I went inside and started taking photos on the 2nd floor. When I got to the 2nd floor I realized I was in the room in which people wait before being admitted to the court room.
The windows that you see on the side wings of the court room are the same. So during a trial the judge, the jury, the lawyer can easily gaze upon the Confederate monument.
The monument has night time illumination. (Lights indicated by the red arrows.)
This is so the monument can be illuminated at night so that the Confederacy can be glorified and be a beacon representing Kaufman County's core values.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
"American History for Home Schools," by 16 members of the Society of Independent Southern Historians
I have received my copy of "American History for Home Schools, 1607 to 1885, With a Focus on Our Civil War," by "16 Members of the Society of Independent Southern Historians."
This is the link to the Society of Independent Southern Historians, http://southernhistorians.org/
You can download it for free also according to their page, but archival purposes, I wanted a hard copy.
As you might assume, it is a farrago of Lost Cause talking points. It has been advertised for sale in the Confederate Veteran.
The list of the sixteen contributors contains the usual neo-Confederates: Clyde N. Wilson, Karen Stokes, H.V. Traywick, Joseph Stromberg and others who really have little to lose in terms of credibility with historians.
What was interesting is that one of the contributors is Earl L. Ijames, of NC, who has been noted elsewhere as a purveyor of questionable historical assertions.
It might be asked how useful this book will be to advocating a Lost Cause view of history. The question it potentially could be a lot. The past is always viewed from the present, and thus it is always seen differently.
In rewriting the Lost Cause argument to make it more desireable to people in the present is a necessary and useful task in the advocacy of any view of history.
Whether they have done a good job or not in this book, I don't know and I am not going to read it. It is going on the shelf.
The other question is whether anyone is going to read it. I don't know. However, the question of how many people will read it, needs to be viewed in the framework of how many people do you need to pass down through time a viewpoint of history. Not that many actually. There are still monarchists out there and they have their events.
Mostly this entry is about who Earl L. Ijames is revealed to be.
This is the link to the Society of Independent Southern Historians, http://southernhistorians.org/
You can download it for free also according to their page, but archival purposes, I wanted a hard copy.
As you might assume, it is a farrago of Lost Cause talking points. It has been advertised for sale in the Confederate Veteran.
The list of the sixteen contributors contains the usual neo-Confederates: Clyde N. Wilson, Karen Stokes, H.V. Traywick, Joseph Stromberg and others who really have little to lose in terms of credibility with historians.
What was interesting is that one of the contributors is Earl L. Ijames, of NC, who has been noted elsewhere as a purveyor of questionable historical assertions.
It might be asked how useful this book will be to advocating a Lost Cause view of history. The question it potentially could be a lot. The past is always viewed from the present, and thus it is always seen differently.
In rewriting the Lost Cause argument to make it more desireable to people in the present is a necessary and useful task in the advocacy of any view of history.
Whether they have done a good job or not in this book, I don't know and I am not going to read it. It is going on the shelf.
The other question is whether anyone is going to read it. I don't know. However, the question of how many people will read it, needs to be viewed in the framework of how many people do you need to pass down through time a viewpoint of history. Not that many actually. There are still monarchists out there and they have their events.
Mostly this entry is about who Earl L. Ijames is revealed to be.
Friday, March 15, 2019
Commander-in-nonsense Paul C. Gramling, Jr. They aren't apathetic, they just don't want to be publically known as Confederates
In the March/April Confederate Veteran, Paul C. Gramling Jr. Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), in the regular column for th C-in-C, starts out decrying apathy.
He points out that in a town the SCV had to cancel participation in a parade due to lack of interest. Gramling is very disappointed since it would be a great opportunity to promote the SCV and its goals. He is correct, it would be a great opportunity to move forward to achieve the group's goals. He also points out that many camps of the SCV, including his own, are rejected from local parades or are fighting to get into them or being kicked out of them.
Gramling sees the failure to participate as a lack of "committment."
I suggest that the the failure to participate as due to members not wanting the whole town to know that they are members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. It might be fine to get with a group where you can ramble on about your ancestors, Robert E. Lee, and feel special about yourself. Talk about battles where from their perspective 19th centurry men were manly men and real men and where the present with its gays, women's lib, outspoken African Americans, and the modern world with all its vexations hasn't happened yet. However, the membership didn't sign up to be infront of the whole town with their Confederate interests and they certainly haven't signed up for the neo-Confederate movement besides a general crankiness regarding the modern world.
As the radical face of the SCV becomes more generally known, more and more some SCV members will quietly drop out, others will be at functions that aren't in the public eye.
Having the Kennedy twins run the Heritage Defense for the SCV will greatly accelerate the exit of members who are nostalgicists from their ranks, leaving a more radical residue that will be prone to crazier things.
He points out that in a town the SCV had to cancel participation in a parade due to lack of interest. Gramling is very disappointed since it would be a great opportunity to promote the SCV and its goals. He is correct, it would be a great opportunity to move forward to achieve the group's goals. He also points out that many camps of the SCV, including his own, are rejected from local parades or are fighting to get into them or being kicked out of them.
Gramling sees the failure to participate as a lack of "committment."
I suggest that the the failure to participate as due to members not wanting the whole town to know that they are members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. It might be fine to get with a group where you can ramble on about your ancestors, Robert E. Lee, and feel special about yourself. Talk about battles where from their perspective 19th centurry men were manly men and real men and where the present with its gays, women's lib, outspoken African Americans, and the modern world with all its vexations hasn't happened yet. However, the membership didn't sign up to be infront of the whole town with their Confederate interests and they certainly haven't signed up for the neo-Confederate movement besides a general crankiness regarding the modern world.
As the radical face of the SCV becomes more generally known, more and more some SCV members will quietly drop out, others will be at functions that aren't in the public eye.
Having the Kennedy twins run the Heritage Defense for the SCV will greatly accelerate the exit of members who are nostalgicists from their ranks, leaving a more radical residue that will be prone to crazier things.
Even small towns don't want neo-Confederate garbage
This is a very revealing and interesting story.
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Madison-County-scraps-proclamation-for-Confederate-History-Month-506999661.html?fbclid=IwAR027zXq1wIpLytke-ME3LL0hcGn34oECOr3NfBzLv3SHOSIPA22o7Aeq2o
Madisonville is a small city in Madison County, Texas.
Recently the county didn't declare a Confederate History month because there was opposition.
Before going forward, I want readers to know where Madison County is in Texas.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madison+County,+TX/@31.2311252,-97.2476362,8z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x86464f65d5a175f9:0xb5fcd36f4e2f82f8!8m2!3d30.9888479!4d-95.940971
Very roughly it is half-way between Dallas and Houston. There aren't any towns as big as Huntsville, Waco,or Bryan College Station. Not urban at all. Really rural.
Yet Madison County supervisors decided that they didn't want controversy over a Confederate history month. If you can't get a Confederate history month declaration here, I wonder where in Texas, besides East Texas, you can get such a declaration. Even East Texas will realize that a declaration of a Confederate history month will do nothing but confirm stereotypes that they are racists.
Another effect will be that if Madison County doesn't have a Confederate month, other rural countries adjacent will not likely to want a Confederate history month and look bad in comparison.
I think we are seeing the first effects of major cities taking down Confederate monuments. Smaller cities and even rural counties will see affirmations of the Confederacy as public indicators of backwardness, a stigma they already suffer from. Removing monuments is going to involve a lot of controversy. Not declaring a Confederate history month is easy, you just don't do something.
You don't introduce a resolution, you avoid voting on it.
This is a significant sign that the Confederacy is being dumped and being dumped everywhere. Before the national SCV could pile on a single place and make it very uncomfortable for that city or country not to support the Confederacy. Now dozens of places are removing a monument, or not declaring Confederate heritage month, or doing something else. There is no way the SCV can pile on like before on one location.
Also, the climate has changed a lot. Appearing with the SCV is an item for news reporting as an expose' or scandal.
Though there is a long fight ahead, we can take heart that the neo-Confederacy is crumbling in many cases on its own.
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Madison-County-scraps-proclamation-for-Confederate-History-Month-506999661.html?fbclid=IwAR027zXq1wIpLytke-ME3LL0hcGn34oECOr3NfBzLv3SHOSIPA22o7Aeq2o
Madisonville is a small city in Madison County, Texas.
Recently the county didn't declare a Confederate History month because there was opposition.
Before going forward, I want readers to know where Madison County is in Texas.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madison+County,+TX/@31.2311252,-97.2476362,8z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x86464f65d5a175f9:0xb5fcd36f4e2f82f8!8m2!3d30.9888479!4d-95.940971
Very roughly it is half-way between Dallas and Houston. There aren't any towns as big as Huntsville, Waco,or Bryan College Station. Not urban at all. Really rural.
Yet Madison County supervisors decided that they didn't want controversy over a Confederate history month. If you can't get a Confederate history month declaration here, I wonder where in Texas, besides East Texas, you can get such a declaration. Even East Texas will realize that a declaration of a Confederate history month will do nothing but confirm stereotypes that they are racists.
Another effect will be that if Madison County doesn't have a Confederate month, other rural countries adjacent will not likely to want a Confederate history month and look bad in comparison.
I think we are seeing the first effects of major cities taking down Confederate monuments. Smaller cities and even rural counties will see affirmations of the Confederacy as public indicators of backwardness, a stigma they already suffer from. Removing monuments is going to involve a lot of controversy. Not declaring a Confederate history month is easy, you just don't do something.
You don't introduce a resolution, you avoid voting on it.
This is a significant sign that the Confederacy is being dumped and being dumped everywhere. Before the national SCV could pile on a single place and make it very uncomfortable for that city or country not to support the Confederacy. Now dozens of places are removing a monument, or not declaring Confederate heritage month, or doing something else. There is no way the SCV can pile on like before on one location.
Also, the climate has changed a lot. Appearing with the SCV is an item for news reporting as an expose' or scandal.
Though there is a long fight ahead, we can take heart that the neo-Confederacy is crumbling in many cases on its own.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
About neo-Confederate hostility against Muslims
I think that the readers of the blog need to know about the hostility of the neo-Confederate movement against Muslims. Go to the blog posting via the link below.
As part of a campaign already underway I have been alerting the churches in Mobile. My campaign planned on mailing Mosques in Mobile, AL this coming week.
I have decided to accelerate this and get the letters written and ready to go this weekend.
https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-neo-confederate-movement-is-hostile.html
As part of a campaign already underway I have been alerting the churches in Mobile. My campaign planned on mailing Mosques in Mobile, AL this coming week.
I have decided to accelerate this and get the letters written and ready to go this weekend.
https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-neo-confederate-movement-is-hostile.html
Friday, March 08, 2019
Sent many many letters to Mobile, Alabama churches warning them about the potential for violence.
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| Dylann Roof before he massacred church members in Charleston, South Carolina |
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| Dylann Roof photo from his website |
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| Photo from Dylann Roof website |
I will be doing a series of posts about the SCV and the reunion in Mobile.
Friday, March 01, 2019
New Orleans is so lucky! Neo-Confederates boycotting New Orleans
https://www.facebook.com/theconfederatecross/photos/a.952946451413132/2559936494047445/?type=1&theater
It doesn't occur to them that perhaps their tourist business is not wanted, that their presence in any modern city is not missed, in fact their presence is not wanted.
I don't think you can send a request for your city to be boycotted. You have to take down a Confederate monument.
For cities that don't have Confederate monuments you will need to be creative. Do you have a Confederate street that can be renamed. Perhaps a resolution could be passed? Perhaps you can have a Frederick Douglass holiday? I think you will just have to keep trying to do stuff to get them angry enough to declare a boycott.
It doesn't occur to them that perhaps their tourist business is not wanted, that their presence in any modern city is not missed, in fact their presence is not wanted.
I don't think you can send a request for your city to be boycotted. You have to take down a Confederate monument.
For cities that don't have Confederate monuments you will need to be creative. Do you have a Confederate street that can be renamed. Perhaps a resolution could be passed? Perhaps you can have a Frederick Douglass holiday? I think you will just have to keep trying to do stuff to get them angry enough to declare a boycott.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Does this slogan sort of give you a Dylann Roof massacre flashback?
http://scv2020reunion.com/
On the page for the reunion is a poster with the headline "We Don't Reconstruct .. We Reload."
There is a picture of a Confederate soldier reloading a gun. I am just wondering if this is the best image and slogan after the massacre in Charleston in 2015.
This is an article I had published in the Dallas Morning News.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/17/confederate-heritage-root-recent-tragedies-troubles
On the page for the reunion is a poster with the headline "We Don't Reconstruct .. We Reload."
There is a picture of a Confederate soldier reloading a gun. I am just wondering if this is the best image and slogan after the massacre in Charleston in 2015.
This is an article I had published in the Dallas Morning News.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/17/confederate-heritage-root-recent-tragedies-troubles
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
What happened to the 2020 Sons of Confederate Veterans National Reunion website? UPDATE:
UPDATE: It is back up.
By the way, the slogan "We Don't Reconstruct ... We Reload," sort of makes me think of Dylann Roof.
THIS WAS POSTED EARLIER.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) were gearing up for a national reunion in 2020 in St. Augustine, Florida. I let the activists there know about it. They started asking a lot of questions of city government about it.
Suddenly the website for the SCV National Reunion disappears.
Click on this link and you get a sort of empty BlueHost page. http://scv2020reunion.com/
But it did exist.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9xPjqyGH1QIJ:scv2020reunion.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
However, it is interesting that this website had instructions so archive.org didn't archive it. SCV is running scared.
And the cache is archived.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190227162915/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9xPjqyGH1QIJ:scv2020reunion.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
There are two major development here and a minor development here.
1. The major development is that it seems the SVC fled. They were looking at activists making their reunion in St. Augustine an issue for over a year. Of course it could be that it is some secret website.
2. The archiving was blocked. That means that the efforts of the SCV are being self-erased from the historical record. They are diminishing themselves. When you go secret, you lose visibility. Preventing archiving and going with a secret website all means that you are diminishing your public presence and you are limiting your effectiveness.
As you make your activities more and more secret it makes what you are doing seem like a dirty secret.
Of course it could be that a website pops up later.
3. Another major development could be that the SCV for future reunions will have to avoid major urban centers and progressive regions and seek out places that are rural and in sympathy with their beliefs. It will be an ever shrinking geography.
At some point having an SCV reunion in your town will be a sign of backwardness and bring ridicule on the city and even in the most rural location some local resentment of the SCV's presence will exist.
By the way, the slogan "We Don't Reconstruct ... We Reload," sort of makes me think of Dylann Roof.
THIS WAS POSTED EARLIER.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) were gearing up for a national reunion in 2020 in St. Augustine, Florida. I let the activists there know about it. They started asking a lot of questions of city government about it.
Suddenly the website for the SCV National Reunion disappears.
Click on this link and you get a sort of empty BlueHost page. http://scv2020reunion.com/
But it did exist.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9xPjqyGH1QIJ:scv2020reunion.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
However, it is interesting that this website had instructions so archive.org didn't archive it. SCV is running scared.
And the cache is archived.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190227162915/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9xPjqyGH1QIJ:scv2020reunion.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
There are two major development here and a minor development here.
1. The major development is that it seems the SVC fled. They were looking at activists making their reunion in St. Augustine an issue for over a year. Of course it could be that it is some secret website.
2. The archiving was blocked. That means that the efforts of the SCV are being self-erased from the historical record. They are diminishing themselves. When you go secret, you lose visibility. Preventing archiving and going with a secret website all means that you are diminishing your public presence and you are limiting your effectiveness.
As you make your activities more and more secret it makes what you are doing seem like a dirty secret.
Of course it could be that a website pops up later.
3. Another major development could be that the SCV for future reunions will have to avoid major urban centers and progressive regions and seek out places that are rural and in sympathy with their beliefs. It will be an ever shrinking geography.
At some point having an SCV reunion in your town will be a sign of backwardness and bring ridicule on the city and even in the most rural location some local resentment of the SCV's presence will exist.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Not so enduring anymore
The title of the book is "Confederate Monuments: Enduring Symbols of the South and the War Between the States.
Not so enduring anymore.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
About the "Disturbing Graves" pre-text. UPDATE: Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans upset with this post.
Seems I upset some neo-Confederates. I posted a link to a posting by the Texas SCV in DeConfederate Dallas.
https://www.facebook.com/edward.sebesta/posts/10158268078544829
They are deleting and reposting this item to break my links, so you might want to just go to their facebook page to see the post.
What you can see in this posting is that for neo-Confederates facts don't seem to matter.
ORIGINAL POST FOLLOWS
One of the issues that the Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans is trying to push that moving the Confederate War Memorial from Pioneer Park is somehow sacriligious because it will disturb graves.
https://www.facebook.com/edward.sebesta/posts/10158268078544829
They are deleting and reposting this item to break my links, so you might want to just go to their facebook page to see the post.
What you can see in this posting is that for neo-Confederates facts don't seem to matter.
ORIGINAL POST FOLLOWS
One of the issues that the Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans is trying to push that moving the Confederate War Memorial from Pioneer Park is somehow sacriligious because it will disturb graves.
This issue is worth examining to show how much the neo-Confederates like to just make stuff up and get sanctimonious about it.
https://www.facebook.com/TexasSCV/photos/a.1230244337023283/2074016415979400
https://www.facebook.com/TexasSCV/photos/a.1230244337023283/2074125912635117
https://www.facebook.com/TexasSCV/photos/a.1230244337023283/2074126705968371
The fact is when it was moved to Pioneer Park from its old location to make way for a highway there were no complaints about possibly disturbing graves.
The monument is actually made of individual units which can be detached and moved. The only thing that will endup being disturbed is the members of the SCV and they seem to have been already disturbed.
Further a Dallas Morning News article from 1966 shows how hypocritical the Sons of Confederate Veterans are being. It is titled, "Park Board Considers Relocation of Graves," July 6, 1966, page 12.
From the article:
"The board discussed two requests at the meeting.Who was making this request? From the article.
One was for reloca[t]ing remains of more than 100 Confederate war veterans. ..."
"John B. Hood Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, requested that the city relocate the remains of Confederate soldiers now buried in the Confederate Cemetery on Electra Street, just off Pine Street in South Dallas.
The organization wants them placed in an area adjacent to the Confederate monument in Pioneer Park, next to Dallas Memorial Auditorium. .... The group also has asked the city to change the name of Pioneer Park to Confederate and Pioneer Park or Confederate-Pioneer Park."The reason the Hood Camp gave for why they wanted these 100 plus Confederate soldiers to be dug up was that the new location would be more central in Dallas and seen by more people.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans seemed not to worry then about disturbing a grave even to the point of digging up and reburying the Confederate Veterans.
Dallas moves to remove another Confederate statue. Richmond however still stuck in the Confederacy
The Smithsonian article about the vote to remove the Confederate War Memorial in Pioneer Park. It is online here.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-history-archaeology/dallas-city-council-votes-remove-massive-confederate-war-memorial-180971503/
This is the 2nd statue it is going to remove.
This Smithsonian has changed a lot since it was publishing stuff criticizing suggesting that Richmond, Virginia, which still hasn't gotten rid of any Confederate monuments, was somehow wiser than New Orleans which got rid of them all.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-richmond-has-gotten-right-about-interpreting-its-confederate-history-180963354/
When you are behind Dallas that must really hurt.
This is the town of M.E. Bradford and William Murchison. All their little dreams of neo-Confederacy Gone With the Wind!
As I have stated before, each time a statue is removed, the ones that remain seem more anomalous. With Austin, San Antonio having gotten rid of Confederate stuff, and Dallas moving forward, it won't be long until someone in Houston will decided it is time to move forward.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-history-archaeology/dallas-city-council-votes-remove-massive-confederate-war-memorial-180971503/
This is the 2nd statue it is going to remove.
This Smithsonian has changed a lot since it was publishing stuff criticizing suggesting that Richmond, Virginia, which still hasn't gotten rid of any Confederate monuments, was somehow wiser than New Orleans which got rid of them all.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-richmond-has-gotten-right-about-interpreting-its-confederate-history-180963354/
When you are behind Dallas that must really hurt.
This is the town of M.E. Bradford and William Murchison. All their little dreams of neo-Confederacy Gone With the Wind!
As I have stated before, each time a statue is removed, the ones that remain seem more anomalous. With Austin, San Antonio having gotten rid of Confederate stuff, and Dallas moving forward, it won't be long until someone in Houston will decided it is time to move forward.
No major metropolis wants to feel their are more retrograde than Dallas. Houston will start moving to re-examine its memorials.
As time goes on smaller metropolises will want to look at getting rid of their Confederate statues also, since Confederate statues will stand as a mark of backwardness.
Neo-Confederacy is crumbling a statue at a time.
Friday, February 08, 2019
Clyde N. Wilson publishes guide to Civil War books, You can see who the neo-Confederate favorites are
Shotwell has published "The War Between the States: 60 Essential Books, A Southern Reader's Guide," and I am eagerly looking forward to going through it.
Why, because it shows which books are loved by neo-Confederates which tells something about the book and the book's author. It is amusing to see some books which I have always thought to be sympathetic to the neo-Confederate view, or having some very strong neo-Confederate elements in it, or just books I thought to be bad, are in this book which also promotes some real neo-Confederate fringe. The embarrasment of the association, well it should be there, but with some of these authors it probably isn't.
It also shows how different types of publishing work together to sustain neo-Confederacy.
Is this guilt by association? I suppose there could be a book written by an author which neo-Confederates could like, but the author abhors neo-Confederacy.
However, in many of these books it is fairly clear that they are sustaining of a neo-Confederate world view even though the author might have one view or another. The books truly deserve their inclusion in this set of recommended books.
Some of the books are:
"Confederate War" by Gary Gallagher.
"The Civil War" by Shelby Foote.
"So Good A Cause: A Decade of the Southern Partisan" by Oran P. Smith.
"The South Was Right!" by the Kennedy Twins
"Illustrated Confederate Reader" by Rod Gragg. It is a book where you would never read the declaration of causes why a state would secede.
This is a good book to establish the neo-Confederate canon for the Civil War.
Why, because it shows which books are loved by neo-Confederates which tells something about the book and the book's author. It is amusing to see some books which I have always thought to be sympathetic to the neo-Confederate view, or having some very strong neo-Confederate elements in it, or just books I thought to be bad, are in this book which also promotes some real neo-Confederate fringe. The embarrasment of the association, well it should be there, but with some of these authors it probably isn't.
It also shows how different types of publishing work together to sustain neo-Confederacy.
Is this guilt by association? I suppose there could be a book written by an author which neo-Confederates could like, but the author abhors neo-Confederacy.
However, in many of these books it is fairly clear that they are sustaining of a neo-Confederate world view even though the author might have one view or another. The books truly deserve their inclusion in this set of recommended books.
Some of the books are:
"Confederate War" by Gary Gallagher.
"The Civil War" by Shelby Foote.
"So Good A Cause: A Decade of the Southern Partisan" by Oran P. Smith.
"The South Was Right!" by the Kennedy Twins
"Illustrated Confederate Reader" by Rod Gragg. It is a book where you would never read the declaration of causes why a state would secede.
This is a good book to establish the neo-Confederate canon for the Civil War.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Kevin Levin paper published
I wrote it in 2017 when Kevin Levin was attacking David A. Love so Love could have it as a refernece and I thought that it was time to write up all of Levin's actions into one paper.
All the CWMemory web pages referenced in this article are printed out as well as others that might be needed to defend the paper or for a future rewrite.
http://templeofdemocracy.com/kevin-levin.html
The next time he snipes at a journalist they will have this essay available for their perusal.
All the CWMemory web pages referenced in this article are printed out as well as others that might be needed to defend the paper or for a future rewrite.
http://templeofdemocracy.com/kevin-levin.html
The next time he snipes at a journalist they will have this essay available for their perusal.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
With enemies like this you don't need friends. "Citizens Matter" campaigning for the Confederacy and against police accountability
This is the website for Citizens Matter, a local group.
http://www.citizensmatter.us/index.php
This group is mobilized to defend the Confederacy and abolish the Police Review Board for the City of Dallas.
They have raging maniacs with paranoid fears of Muslims.
The Dallas Observer has a recent article about them.
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/real-question-in-police-review-board-debate-is-race-11523932
I couldn't design a better group to be the supporters of the Confederacy to give neo-Confederacy a bad name.
Crazed groups like this is the natural evolution of neo-Confederacy as more and more people decide to give up the Confederacy the residual of supporters will be people such as Citizens Matter.
The head of Heritage Defense is Walter Donald Kennedy of the Kennedy twins. This is again a sign that neo-Confederate groups are shifting to ever more overt radicalism.
http://www.citizensmatter.us/index.php
This group is mobilized to defend the Confederacy and abolish the Police Review Board for the City of Dallas.
They have raging maniacs with paranoid fears of Muslims.
The Dallas Observer has a recent article about them.
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/real-question-in-police-review-board-debate-is-race-11523932
I couldn't design a better group to be the supporters of the Confederacy to give neo-Confederacy a bad name.
Crazed groups like this is the natural evolution of neo-Confederacy as more and more people decide to give up the Confederacy the residual of supporters will be people such as Citizens Matter.
The head of Heritage Defense is Walter Donald Kennedy of the Kennedy twins. This is again a sign that neo-Confederate groups are shifting to ever more overt radicalism.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
2020 Sons of Confederate Veterans Reunion is in St. Augustine, Florida.
The 2020 Sons of Confederate Veterans Reunion is in St. Augustine, Florida.
http://scv2020reunion.com/
We are going to be having a counter presence at each of their events. The momentum built by the counter efforts in Mobile, Alabama will lead to St. Augustine in 2020.
This is the Mobile(ize) Resistance Against Neo-Confederacy for Mobile, Alabama.
https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/
http://scv2020reunion.com/
We are going to be having a counter presence at each of their events. The momentum built by the counter efforts in Mobile, Alabama will lead to St. Augustine in 2020.
This is the Mobile(ize) Resistance Against Neo-Confederacy for Mobile, Alabama.
https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/
Mobile(ize) Resistance Against Neo-Confederacy has both a Facebook page and a Google blog
The effort to have a counter event in Mobile, Alabama at the 2019 reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has been started.
This is the blog for the counter activity. Sign up for the email updates. We have it as a backup for the Facebook page.
https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/
This is the first posting with all the information.
https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/2019/01/
I am going to include a copy of this posting at the end of this posting to share all the information.
This is the Facebook group for the Mobile(ize) against Neo-Conffederacy event.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/295303354512827/
What you can do. Let as many people know about this event and have them like the Facebook Page and IMPORTANTLY sign up for the emails from this blog. You can see on the right side of this page where you can sign up.
More details will be forthcoming.
Additionally this web page will have postings of updates of this effort and other information.
The posting of Jan. 16, 2019 at the blog Mobile(ize) Resistance Against Neo-Confederacy.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) are having their 2019 Reunion in Mobile, Alabama, July 10-13, 2019.
They have a web page for the reunion here:
https://www.scvsemmes.org/2019-scv-reunion.html
Very likely local government entities provided incentives to bring the Sons of Confederate Veterans to Mobile, Alabama. Local camps of the SCV do bidding to host the SCV national reunion. The hotel may have also given incentives to get the SCV to have the convention at their hotel.
In this case it is the Renaissance Riverview Hotel and the convention itself will be at the Mobile Convention Center located on Water Street at the Mobile River.
Our plan is to have peaceful protests, counter-events of an educational nature which will inform the public and people in Mobile, Alabama what the Sons of Confederate Veterans is really about.
This blog will be updated with information about our efforts and we will provide some information about Alabama and Mobile, Alabama neo-Confederacy.
Incidentally you can read about the SCV at Black Commentator.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html
This was written in 2013. There is a lot more stuff since then and updated information will be provided.
Additionally, we will be writing the local churches asking them not to host the SCV. Last time the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception let the cathedral for a Confederate event in 2007.
You can see photos of Confederate flags flying in the cathedral at these links.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140601142935/http://www.scvsemmes.org/uploads/3/1/7/8/3178401/229119_orig.jpg
and
https://web.archive.org/web/20140601142935/http://www.scvsemmes.org/uploads/3/1/7/8/3178401/6386330_orig.jpg
Whoever took these pictures pulled them off the internet and only these Archive.org pictures remain.
There will be a Facebook Page for the counter effort as well as a Facebook Event. However, make sure you book mark this page incase Facebook takes down our pages. They have so far pulled down one anti-Confederate event page and refused to give an explanation.
FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/295303354512827/
Who is Ed Sebesta? My curriculum vitae is here:
http://templeofdemocracy.com/curriculum-vitae.html
I am the co-editor of two university press books, author of peer-reviewed academic articles, last one at a journal published at Cambridge Univ. I have had several articles published at Black Commentator.
I was awarded the Spirit of Freedom medal by the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C.
For useful information to combate neo-Confederate mythology I suggest my curriculum vitae for information and the following web page. It is the material that couldn't fit into the book, "The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader," which documents how it is about white supremacy.
http://confederateneoconfederatereader.com/
This is the blog for the counter activity. Sign up for the email updates. We have it as a backup for the Facebook page.
https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/
This is the first posting with all the information.
https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/2019/01/
I am going to include a copy of this posting at the end of this posting to share all the information.
This is the Facebook group for the Mobile(ize) against Neo-Conffederacy event.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/295303354512827/
What you can do. Let as many people know about this event and have them like the Facebook Page and IMPORTANTLY sign up for the emails from this blog. You can see on the right side of this page where you can sign up.
More details will be forthcoming.
Additionally this web page will have postings of updates of this effort and other information.
The posting of Jan. 16, 2019 at the blog Mobile(ize) Resistance Against Neo-Confederacy.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) are having their 2019 Reunion in Mobile, Alabama, July 10-13, 2019.
They have a web page for the reunion here:
https://www.scvsemmes.org/2019-scv-reunion.html
Very likely local government entities provided incentives to bring the Sons of Confederate Veterans to Mobile, Alabama. Local camps of the SCV do bidding to host the SCV national reunion. The hotel may have also given incentives to get the SCV to have the convention at their hotel.
In this case it is the Renaissance Riverview Hotel and the convention itself will be at the Mobile Convention Center located on Water Street at the Mobile River.
Our plan is to have peaceful protests, counter-events of an educational nature which will inform the public and people in Mobile, Alabama what the Sons of Confederate Veterans is really about.
This blog will be updated with information about our efforts and we will provide some information about Alabama and Mobile, Alabama neo-Confederacy.
Incidentally you can read about the SCV at Black Commentator.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html
This was written in 2013. There is a lot more stuff since then and updated information will be provided.
Additionally, we will be writing the local churches asking them not to host the SCV. Last time the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception let the cathedral for a Confederate event in 2007.
You can see photos of Confederate flags flying in the cathedral at these links.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140601142935/http://www.scvsemmes.org/uploads/3/1/7/8/3178401/229119_orig.jpg
and
https://web.archive.org/web/20140601142935/http://www.scvsemmes.org/uploads/3/1/7/8/3178401/6386330_orig.jpg
Whoever took these pictures pulled them off the internet and only these Archive.org pictures remain.
There will be a Facebook Page for the counter effort as well as a Facebook Event. However, make sure you book mark this page incase Facebook takes down our pages. They have so far pulled down one anti-Confederate event page and refused to give an explanation.
FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/295303354512827/
Who is Ed Sebesta? My curriculum vitae is here:
http://templeofdemocracy.com/curriculum-vitae.html
I am the co-editor of two university press books, author of peer-reviewed academic articles, last one at a journal published at Cambridge Univ. I have had several articles published at Black Commentator.
I was awarded the Spirit of Freedom medal by the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C.
For useful information to combate neo-Confederate mythology I suggest my curriculum vitae for information and the following web page. It is the material that couldn't fit into the book, "The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader," which documents how it is about white supremacy.
http://confederateneoconfederatereader.com/
Saturday, January 12, 2019
I am back. Ready to start activism. Both for Dallas and nationally. The Confederacy is going to start coming down.
Start coming down more than it has I suppose I should say.
I have been pouring a lot of time into researching the built landscape of the city of Dallas. Also, helping the people in Austin a little on their stuff. They took my material on the Children of the Confederacy to the right people and the plaque is down.
I have also done a lot of thinking about how the landscape is imagined. How the build landscape is named.
Yesterday was my last planned visit to an archive. It will be a few days to organize the materials I collected last week. And I expect as I start writing and producing I will find gaps and will be visiting a library or archive again.
But sometime next week activism starts and research as an activity will be a minor component of my time.
I am going to be writing up my Dallas research findings, then creating powerpoints, which will be story boards for the production of videos. I am excited to get into video production.
Being retired I have been able to spend 40 hours a week doing research, digging in archives. I have made amazing discoveries. Also, my research has been assisted by the digitization of resources. I am able to do searches and find things that previously I would have only found if I had been doing research over decades and was luck.
Who would expect that former Dallas Morning News columnist Lynn Landrum would reference Van Evrie as a legitimate source to understand African Americans in an article? I would have never looked for this, and even if I thought it might have existed, it would takes months of research to find it. With digitized data and searching I found it.
So I hope not only to reshape how the Dallas built environment is understood, but also show how modern technology can enable comprehending a build environment of a locality.
This blog will be more general anti-Confederate stuff. For Dallas follow my other blog.
https://dallaslandscape.blogspot.com/
I have been pouring a lot of time into researching the built landscape of the city of Dallas. Also, helping the people in Austin a little on their stuff. They took my material on the Children of the Confederacy to the right people and the plaque is down.
I have also done a lot of thinking about how the landscape is imagined. How the build landscape is named.
Yesterday was my last planned visit to an archive. It will be a few days to organize the materials I collected last week. And I expect as I start writing and producing I will find gaps and will be visiting a library or archive again.
But sometime next week activism starts and research as an activity will be a minor component of my time.
I am going to be writing up my Dallas research findings, then creating powerpoints, which will be story boards for the production of videos. I am excited to get into video production.
Being retired I have been able to spend 40 hours a week doing research, digging in archives. I have made amazing discoveries. Also, my research has been assisted by the digitization of resources. I am able to do searches and find things that previously I would have only found if I had been doing research over decades and was luck.
Who would expect that former Dallas Morning News columnist Lynn Landrum would reference Van Evrie as a legitimate source to understand African Americans in an article? I would have never looked for this, and even if I thought it might have existed, it would takes months of research to find it. With digitized data and searching I found it.
So I hope not only to reshape how the Dallas built environment is understood, but also show how modern technology can enable comprehending a build environment of a locality.
This blog will be more general anti-Confederate stuff. For Dallas follow my other blog.
https://dallaslandscape.blogspot.com/
Kevin Levin is afraid that the narrative will escape the League of Distinguished Civil War Historians UPDATE Kevin Levin paper published
Kevin Levin is back at it again.
Paul Duggan dis an indepth article, Nov. 28, 2018, in the Washington Post about Frank Earnest who heads up "heritage defense" for the Virginia Sons of Confederate Veterans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/11/28/feature/the-confederacy-was-built-on-slavery-how-can-so-many-southern-whites-still-believe-otherwise/
It is a good indepth article about neo-Confederate view polnts and how neo-Confederate think.
Well Kevin Levin was not happy over this.
http://cwmemory.com/2018/12/07/relegating-frank-earnest-and-the-lost-cause-to-the-trash-bin-of-history/
Levin wants to shut down discussion of neo-Confederates.
The issue though is that Earnest and others like him have influence with legislators and there are states in which State law forbids the local governments. There is a neo-Confederate movement whose members write some of the books with the very popular conservative Politically Incorrect Guide series. There are neo-Confederates in positions of influence in the conservative movement in the United States. Thomas Wood's "Politically Incorrect Guide to American History" is a New York Times bestseller.
People like Earnest get high positions in the Federal government. This article in CNN is about one of them.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/politics/va-secretary-confederate-president/index.html
If more people knew about the existence of the neo-Confederate movement, people like Robert Wilkie would not get appointed to important government positions, in this case Wilkie was appointed the Secretary of Veterans Affairs by Donald Trump.
Levin uses some false opposites. Reporting on Earnest doesn't mean we can't report on other things regarding the Civil War and historical memory. I don't think the Washington Post has a quota of profiles either.
What Levin wants is the whole issue of neo-Confederates swept under the rug and the narrative of the Civil War and its remembrance to remain in the cloistered confines of the self-appointed League of Distinguished Civil War Historians like himself, to remain within the establishment.
The problem is that the influence of neo-Confederates in shaping the built landscape has been obcured. It is now coming to light.
Paul Duggan called Levin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/a-civil-war-expert-objected-to-my-profile-of-a-neo-confederate-i-called-him-to-discuss-his-critique/2019/01/08/fb89917c-02d4-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html?utm_term=.314df442ce88
This is Levin's reporting on this article.
http://cwmemory.com/2019/01/09/a-conversation-with-the-washington-post/
Kevin Levin's concerned to keep discussion of Civil War memory confined to establishment Civil War historians works to enable the neo-Confederate movement.
I have decided to publish my paper on Kevin Levin. I will be doing a separate posting of the link and will update this blog post also with a link to it.
I have the paper I wrote about Kevin Levin online at the following link.
http://templeofdemocracy.com/kevin-levin.html
I took the time to printout and archive all of the pages relevant to this essay and others that might be needed to support this essay and file them.
Paul Duggan dis an indepth article, Nov. 28, 2018, in the Washington Post about Frank Earnest who heads up "heritage defense" for the Virginia Sons of Confederate Veterans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/11/28/feature/the-confederacy-was-built-on-slavery-how-can-so-many-southern-whites-still-believe-otherwise/
It is a good indepth article about neo-Confederate view polnts and how neo-Confederate think.
Well Kevin Levin was not happy over this.
http://cwmemory.com/2018/12/07/relegating-frank-earnest-and-the-lost-cause-to-the-trash-bin-of-history/
Levin wants to shut down discussion of neo-Confederates.
We need to stop taking these people seriously. Their views have been discredited and whether they acknowledge it or not, their attachment to this particular memory of the war is wrapped in nostalgia and racial animus. But what troubles me the most is that the attention granted given to individuals like Earnest and the SCV obscures a much richer landscape of cultural identification with the past. In short, what other profiles could be written that tell us something about where we are in 2018 re: Civil War memory and where we might be headed?
In the end, Earnest is part of a rear guard action that is growing weaker and weaker owing to age. It’s time to move on.
The issue though is that Earnest and others like him have influence with legislators and there are states in which State law forbids the local governments. There is a neo-Confederate movement whose members write some of the books with the very popular conservative Politically Incorrect Guide series. There are neo-Confederates in positions of influence in the conservative movement in the United States. Thomas Wood's "Politically Incorrect Guide to American History" is a New York Times bestseller.
People like Earnest get high positions in the Federal government. This article in CNN is about one of them.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/politics/va-secretary-confederate-president/index.html
If more people knew about the existence of the neo-Confederate movement, people like Robert Wilkie would not get appointed to important government positions, in this case Wilkie was appointed the Secretary of Veterans Affairs by Donald Trump.
Levin uses some false opposites. Reporting on Earnest doesn't mean we can't report on other things regarding the Civil War and historical memory. I don't think the Washington Post has a quota of profiles either.
What Levin wants is the whole issue of neo-Confederates swept under the rug and the narrative of the Civil War and its remembrance to remain in the cloistered confines of the self-appointed League of Distinguished Civil War Historians like himself, to remain within the establishment.
The problem is that the influence of neo-Confederates in shaping the built landscape has been obcured. It is now coming to light.
Paul Duggan called Levin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/a-civil-war-expert-objected-to-my-profile-of-a-neo-confederate-i-called-him-to-discuss-his-critique/2019/01/08/fb89917c-02d4-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html?utm_term=.314df442ce88
This is Levin's reporting on this article.
http://cwmemory.com/2019/01/09/a-conversation-with-the-washington-post/
Kevin Levin's concerned to keep discussion of Civil War memory confined to establishment Civil War historians works to enable the neo-Confederate movement.
I have decided to publish my paper on Kevin Levin. I will be doing a separate posting of the link and will update this blog post also with a link to it.
I have the paper I wrote about Kevin Levin online at the following link.
http://templeofdemocracy.com/kevin-levin.html
I took the time to printout and archive all of the pages relevant to this essay and others that might be needed to support this essay and file them.
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