Texas Republicans along with Democrats take down Confederate plaque in Austin

A Children of the Confederacy plaque with its neo-Confederate propaganda has been taken down from the Capitol building in Austin, Texas. The following is a photo of the plaque that I took.

CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO SEE THE FULL THING.

These are some news stories about it being voted to be taken down.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/11/texas-confederate-plaque-vote-greg-abbott-dan-patrick/

https://www.statesman.com/news/20190111/preservation-board-votes-to-remove-confederate-plaque-at-capitol

I had sent elected officials background information, but I don't know if they paid it any attention.

https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2017/10/letter-to-texas-rep-eric-johnson-about.html#.XDnugFw2qiM

I told them about the Children of the Confederacy essay published a few months later after the plaques installation in the United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine gleefully describing the massacre of African American soldiers in Reconstruction Florida.

What is important in this story is that both the Republicans and Democrats decided it had to go and among the leadership of both parties they decided it had to go.

It wasn't the story where an African American Democrat was wanting to get rid of the plaque but white Democrats representing whiter districts were making up excuses.

It wasn't the story in which the Democrats wanted to take down the plaque but the Republicans were defending it.

Both Democrats and Republicans wanted the plaque gone, and it didn't take a big campaign to convince them.  Granted that the plaque was in the Capitol building and the plaque had inanitites that were particularly offensive, but still it is a major change in the politics of deConfederating the landscape.

This sends out a message to all of Texas that glorification of the Confederacy is much less acceptable than it was. That doesn't mean that the battle is over,or that all glorification of the Confederacy is going to be rejected.

What it means is that if your town wants to keep its Confederate monument it will be seen as backward and out of touch and aberrant. Industries wanting to locate there will see your Confederate monument and think twice. People thinking of accepting a job offer there will have second thoughts.

As I have pointed out before one removal leads to another.

Speaking in Austin, Texas this Saturday about the Hood Brigade Monument. It is about white supremacy.

This Saturday I will be in Austin, Texas speaking about the Hood Brigade Monument and how it is about white supremacy.

This is the event.

https://www.facebook.com/events/240412070082742/

They are getting some fairly significant speakers at the event. 

I have copies of all the dedication speeches for all the Confederate monuments on the Texas Capitol grounds. 

My speech will explain how this monument, and others like it are erected for the purpose of supporting a system of white supremacy. My analysis of the dedication speeches for this monument would apply to most any Confederate monument in the nation. 

I am hoping that once people understand how to analyze the dedication speeches for this monument they will realize it applies to nearly every Confederate monument. 

For the Hood Brigade I also have this book. I will be showing it at the rally.  Chock a block full of stuff. I have some quotes following the picture. 

This is an extract from the ANNUAL ADDRESS OF COLONEL R. J. HARDING, President of Hood's Texas Brigade Association, AT CORSICANA, TEXAS, Reunion, Wednesday, June 28, 1905, starting on page 176 of the above book. 

The son of our glorious Hood got up a regiment of immunes. Anyone eligible that had ever had a contagious disease, yellow fever, smallpox, mumps or itch. Mississippi sent her quota promptly and McKinley insulted them by appointing the most despised negro in the State—John Lynch—their paymaster. Our boys would never receive their pay
from him.

I will say nothing about Teddy, except that he is rather coon-flavored. He seems to be trying to reform. [Bold face added.]

The book has other pungent racist items.

You can view or download the book at this direct link in several formats.

https://archive.org/details/unveilingdedicat01chil

Once you download the book, search words to use would be "coon" "negro" "inferior" 

What will be interesting is to show that the dedication speakers are a bunch of lying scammers. This is what John Bell Hood thought the War of the Rebellion was about. In fact the dedication speeches really show a bunch of scam artists engaged in all sorts of nonsense to push a political agenda. CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE WHOLE THING. 

O.R. Ser. 1 V. 39 Bk. 2 Page 419-422.

I am also planning on driving down early the day before and taking photo documentation of all the Confederate stuff on the Capitol grounds. 

I hope to have a set of photos like I did in Dallas of the Confederate War Memorial.

http://templeofdemocracy.com/dallas-convention-reflections.html

Letter to Texas Rep. Eric Johnson about a Children of the Confederacy essay gleefully telling of the slaughter of African American troops UPDATE

UPDATE: I mailed a letter about this Children of the Confederacy essay to Joe Straus, speaker of the Texas House. Today I mail a letter to Texas Governor Abbott about this essay.

I am mailing this letter today. I will be mailing other elected officials in Austin, Texas and I will be letting others know. I will have some extracts of the essay in this blog.

UPDATE2: I sent out a press release to a lot of media in Austin. Next I will be sending out some press releases to media in Dallas.

                                                                                    October 24, 2017

                                                                                    [Address was here.]

                                                                                    edwardsebesta@gmail.com

Texas House Representative Eric Johnson

Room 1N.7

P.O. Box 2910

Austin, Texas 78768

Dear Hon. Johnson:

I applaud your efforts to have the Children of the Confederacy plaque removed from the Capitol building. They are a pernicious organization that is run by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).

I enclose an essay by a member of the Children of the Confederacy published in the United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine, March 1960, in which the massacre of African American troops is celebrated and thought humorous.  This article was published just a few months after the Children of the Confederacy plaque was put on the building. I enclosed the cover of the magazine issue, and the table of contents. The article celebrating the slaughter of African American troops is titled, “Hog and Hominy Lick Carpetbaggers.” The UDC though highly enough of this essay to publish it in their magazine.

This essay isn’t an anomaly, but is consistent with the values of the United Daughters of the Confederacy promotes. They have in South Carolina a museum to the violent Red Shirts which they call a shrine. The UDC for decades in the early 20^th century celebrated the KKK as heroes. In the 21^st century they have less directly promoted books that celebrated the KKK as heroes.

My curriculum vitae is online. http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/curriculum-vitae.html. I am published by the Univ. of Texas Press, Univ. Press of Mississippi, peer-reviewed academic journals, last one at Cambridge Univ. I was awarded the Spirit of Freedom medal by the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C.

I have additional information about the Children of the Confederacy and their instruction about the Ku Klux Klan.

I have a lot of research information about the Capitol Confederate monuments also.

                                                                                    Sincerely Yours,

                                                                                    Edward H. Sebesta

Some sections from the article. 

University of Texas at Austin finally does the right thing

I downloaded the report of the special committee charged with evaluating the removal of Confederate statues at University of Texas - Austin. Lots of nonsense in it and they ended up removing only one statues, Jefferson Davis, out of five Confederate statues. The head of the committee was the person who was the head of diversity at Univ. of Texas - Austin. Gives a person an indication how seriously Univ. of Texas -- Austin's diversity efforts are. Not very in my mind.

Suddenly they are taking down the other four statues.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/higher-education/2017/08/20/ut-austin-take-4-statues-leaders-confederacy

This started late Sunday night, 8/20/2017. Evidently the Committee's report was thrown into the trash bin. Seems there was suddenly a need to do the right thing and babbling nonsense didn't seem to be of much use.

The statues are now removed.

http://kxan.com/2017/08/20/overnight-removal-of-confederate-statues-from-ut-ordered-by-president-fenves/

The Committee at the Univ. of Texas - Austin now looks to be fools.