
City Council Votes 6 to 1 to Remove Confederate Statues in New Orleans
On December 17, the New Orleans city council voted 6 to 1 to remove “prominent Confederate statues” in the city.

On December 17, the New Orleans city council voted 6 to 1 to remove “prominent Confederate statues” in the city.

America continues to shed its sad racial history as public support grows against display of the Confederate battle-flag (specifically, the battle-flag of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia). Tragically it took nine June 2015 racist murders in Charleston, South Carolina, home of the Confederacy, to really awaken Americans to the need to move on.

Julianne Moore’s life off-screen is quickly becoming a tale of everything the actress abhors. From Sarah Palin, to guns, to Civil War history relating to the Confederacy, Moore can’t keep from stating her opposition to certain people, places, and things.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) is looking for a way to block attempts to remove historical statues–statues of Confederate leaders in this instance–from their current positions in New Orleans.

On Saturday, hundreds upon hundreds of people from Georgia arrived at Stone Mountain, the nation’s largest Confederate memorial, to show their support for the Confederate flag. It is interesting to note that the location for this rally. Stone Mountain itself has been targeted in the anti-Confederate hysteria that began sweeping the certain parts of the country following the attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June.

On July 20, a petition was launched to rename a Long Beach middle school honoring Robert E. Lee.

“In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country.” All Americans would agree with the quote above — and in a moment I’ll have something to say about the man who wrote it.

(Note: This speech was given by Ron Maxwell, on Sunday, June 7, 2009, at the annual commemoration of the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery.)

California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) is calling on the San Diego Unified School District to change the name of Robert E. Lee Elementary School because of its namesake’s ties to the Confederacy.

The left’s crusade on American history continues as New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu calls for the removal of a monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee that has stood since 1884.

On January 15–just four days before the commemoration of General Robert E. Lee’s birthday–The Daily Beast ran a story claiming Lee would have approved of the removal of Confederate battle flags from Washington and Lee University and that Lee wrote in a “self-serving” manner, post-Civil War, to cover his tracks on secession.