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Debates Over Arlington’s Confederate Memorial

(American Conservative) – im Webb, a former U.S. senator from Virginia, former secretary of the Navy, man of letters, and a Vietnam platoon leader with a heroic combat record, recently rendered a public service in coming to the defense of the endangered century-old Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in a Wall Street Journal commentary. “I cannot imagine,” Webb wrote, “that the removal of this memorial, conceived and built with the sole purpose of healing the wounds of the Civil War and restoring national harmony, could be within the intent of a sweeping sentence placed inside a nearly trillion-dollar piece of legislation.” The legislation in question being the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021.

The response from those seeking the memorial’s removal, starting with the vice-chair of the NDAA-created “naming commission” that recommended it, was standard fare. The memorial, currently slated for removal by the end of the year, is a tribute to “an enemy who chose treason to preserve slavery” and “celebrate[s] white supremacy,” declared Brigadier General Ty Seidule, a former West Point history professor. Another letter to the editor recommended following the German example in dealing with the Holocaust’s legacy, accompanied by the predictable syllogism: No monuments to Nazis, no monuments to Confederates.

Wait a second—enslaved African-Americans underwent a Holocaust? According to Wilfred McClay’s sweeping one-volume history of the United States, Land of Hope (2019), they experienced the largest natural increase of any slave population in history. This doesn’t minimize the evil aspects of slavery, including the brutal Middle Passage and the cruelly unchristian practice of separating families. But the idea that American chattel slavery ranks with the Holocaust in the annals of infamy is unsupportable.

A West Point professor, moreover, might be expected to…

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(Southern Partisan) – More than a decade ago, on the first day of a college seminar titled “The American South,” Glenda Gilmore—one of the deans of Southern history—challenged my classmates and me to define the borders of the South. It was a surprisingly difficult task. Everyone agreed on, say, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina, but what about Oklahoma—was it Western or Southern? What about Kentucky, home state of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Perhaps Missouri, the setting of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn? Undoubtedly northern Florida, but whither Miami? Why not New Mexico, which after all is south of Virginia? Does Delaware count? The exercise ended without any certainty, which surely was the point.

To the eminent (and eminently racist) Southern historian U.B. Phillips, the South was defined by its weather. Elsewhere, he labeled white supremacy the region’s “central theme.” To others, the South is simply the former Confederacy. To many, there’s an unspoken but firm association between Southernness and backwardness, or religion, or poverty. These assumptions position the South as a region apart, an “other” place, an American heart of darkness, a foil for the more enlightened North or the more entrepreneurial West.

It’s ironic, then, that the South has also become a stand-in for American authenticity. “The most violent and inequitable region of the country produced a disproportionate amount of the modernist literature, adventurous self-taught art, and genres of music and popular styles of religion, which entered into and then transformed the artistic sensibilities and cultural soundtracks of the twentieth century,” writes Paul Harvey in a penetrating essay in…

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(It’s not even up yet and the whining is so intense, they’ll run right to a different county’s tyrannical Chancery Court to seek an injunction from the same clown world jurists that have ruled some Arkansas constitutional amendments unconstitutional… – DD)

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HSC (Hot Spring County) Democrats Oppose Plans to Erect a Huge Confederate Flag

(Malvern Daily Record) – Efforts to raise a Confederate flag in Rockport at the Malvern exit on the Freeway is a threat to the future of our city and county—and will have a detrimental effect on the future economic development of our area. The HSC Democratic Committee calls upon all relevant governmental agencies to take whatever actions are necessary to prevent the erecting of this symbol of the Confederacy and its handmaiden, human slavery.

We reject claims that the flag, the rebel battle flag, is a symbol of state’s rights, or Southern pride. In 2015 Dylann Roof, killed nine black worshipers in South Carolina, demonstrating that the flag is indeed a symbol—but it is a symbol of hatred, deep and visceral hatred, hatred based on racism.

The Confederate forces which murdered surrendered black soldiers (TOTAL DEBUNKED LIE) at the battles of Poison Springs and Marks Mill in south Arkansas carried aloft the Confederate battle flag. After the Civil War..

That’s all this leftist neo-hippie drivel I’m going to excerpt. You get the idea… -DD

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(Just as VMI has accepted Lee’s Tomb and Traveller’s Grave??? They concealed Lee and cancelled Traveller. This is supposed to make it all better I guess? – DD)

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VMI board votes to accept Confederate Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery

The state military college’s board of visitors voted unanimously to accept Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s request to house the statue at its Civil War museum at New Market.

(Cardinal News) – A Confederate monument slated for removal from Arlington National Cemetery will be placed at a Civil War site owned by Virginia Military Institute.

The state military college’s board of visitors voted unanimously Wednesday to accept the memorial as the federal government works to jettison all elements of Confederate history from its property — a task that ranges from removing monuments to renaming military bases.

The Confederate Memorial, unveiled in 1914, will be moved to the Virginia Museum of the Civil War at New Market Battlefield State Historical Park. The site, about 77 miles from VMI’s campus in Lexington, is where 257 cadets were involved in the battle of New Market in May 1864.

For years, VMI commemorated the battle and the 10 cadets who died there by hosting an annual New Market Day parade. In 2021, it was renamed the Memorial Parade to honor all alumni who died in battle.

The monument was designed by Moses Ezekiel, the first Jewish cadet to attend VMI. He fought with the Confederates at…

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‘It was all about the flag’: Outgoing Rep. Nick Bain reflects on election loss

(Super Talk) – After losing the Republican primary by just 26 votes, State Rep. Nick Bain is attributing his defeat to his vote in a landmark decision to change Mississippi’s state flag.

Bain, who was seeking a fourth term as the representative for House District 2, was unseated by challenger Brad Mattox — whose campaign harped on the fact that the lawmaker used his vote to change the flag in 2020, which did not resonate well with some voters in the north Mississippi district.

“It was all about the flag. I had two opponents come out, and they were upset from the get-go about the reason and the fact that I voted to change the Mississippi state flag,” Bain said on Monday’s episode of The Gallo Show. “Let me say, unequivocally, I would do that a thousand times out of a thousand. It was the right thing to do, and we did it the right way.”

The Corinth attorney claims to have experienced scrutiny from voters while on the campaign trail. From having doors slammed in his face to residents alleging that he betrayed his…

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