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A black Texas high school senior, who decided to dress up as a slave for a campus costume event, says school officials told him to change his outfit to avoid making anyone feel uncomfortable. The school district says otherwise.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – An organization aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement is now threatening the City of New Orleans publicly, defacing historical monuments and demanding they be torn down.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – A group aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement is threatening to physically tear down New Orleans, Louisiana’s most famous French Quarter monument depicting President Andrew Jackson on a horse.

A civil court judge dealt a blow to taxpayers suing the Houston Independent School District seeking intervention to stop the costly and politically correct re-branding of eight schools named for historical figures associated with the Confederacy.

Outraged taxpayers, parents, alumni, and community watchdog groups held a press conference at the Houston Independent School District offices Wednesday to protest the school board’s plans to spend millions in taxpayer dollars to rename eight schools. They feel the money would be better spent on the students.

Another historical Confederate figure fell to political correctness, this time, for the first time, at a public school in the Texas state capital.

Controversy erupted at the cash-strapped Houston Independent School District Thursday when the board of trustees voted to change the names of seven of its schools originally named for Confederate war figures. At issue is how trustees handled the process, which left many Houstonians feeling disenfranchised and worried about the astronomical costs associated with the name changes. Some may sue.

HOUSTON, Texas — Changing the name of just one middle school in Texas will cost Houston taxpayers almost $500,000. Some Houston taxpayers are not happy about the cost of the name change, and some former students, parents of students, and current students at the middle school are not happy about the name change either.

More Texas school districts seek to erase their Confederate history by rebranding campuses with politically correct names. This reality, sparked by the 2015 tragic, fatal shootings of nine black church parishioners in South Carolina, has only been exacerbated by images that surfaced of the shooter with the Confederate flag.

The same Texas public school board that stripped the historical namesakes of figures associated with the Confederacy from four campuses in January, the Houston Independent School District, voted to rebrand three more late last week.

The Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees voted 5-4 Thursday evening to rebrand four campuses named for historical figures associated with the Confederacy.

On December 17, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate statues from the city, using obscure “nuisance” laws to strip these over 100-year-old historic monuments from their places of honor.

On July 9, 1776, patriots in Manhattan, having heard the Declaration of Independence read aloud for the first time, marched down Broadway and tore from its perch the two-ton lead statue of King George III.

In 1871, the Texas legislature banned carrying guns outside the home–a move largely directed at controlling blacks during the Reconstruction era. That ban was altered in 1995, when Texas adopted the concealed carry of handguns, yet a prohibition against openly carrying handguns in public remained on the books. It took the Republican-controlled 2015 Texas legislature and Governor Greg Abbott (R) to abolish that final prohibition, thereby making it legal to carry handguns openly in public in the Lone Star State–and achieving liberty for all.

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

Just before Thanksgiving, a Texas school board voted to erase more American history.

On Monday, University of Mississippi Police Department officers took down the state flag, yielding to those who argued that the standard’s Confederate battle flag in one corner made it unfit to display. The flag was furled and saved in the university’s archives.

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.

On September 11, The Huffington Post reflected on how southern Democrats used gun control—and their resulting superior firepower—as a de facto means of suppressing post-Civil War blacks, thereby maintaining a society where “average citizens” lived in the shadow of their “betters,” in clear violation of the 14th Amendment.

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.

Julian Castro, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), stirred up some controversy at a San Antonio high school named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In recent weeks, he called for a name change. Not everyone agrees with the former San Antonio mayor.

Leftist agitator and Muslim propagandist Musa al-Gharbi is calling progressives to strike while the iron is hot, re-appropriating, abolishing, or otherwise re-identifying Confederate monuments, street names, and public schools while the anti-Confederate flag momentum still holds sway.

On June 24, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) ordered the Confederate battle flag removed from the state Capitol grounds in Montgomery. On July 13, the Huntsville, Alabama, chapter of the NAACP said the Confederate battle flag worn by every Alabama state trooper and emblazoned on every trooper’s vehicle needs to go away, as well.

Ironically, Forrest is buried Health Sciences Park which, until 2013, was called the Nathan Bedford Forrest Park. It is where all attention is now focused as the city pursues action that the Heritage Act may forbid.

Amid moves around the country to banish Confederate flags from public view and remove statues of Confederate leaders from prominent places, an online petition to rename Virginia’s Jefferson Davis Highway has been launched.

A local civil rights activist lodged state and federal complaints against a North Texas high school over its Confederacy focused team mascot, the Rebel. In response, hundreds of parents, students and other supporters showed up on Sunday afternoon for an impromptu rally to defend the mascot from criticism that it is a divisive symbol of the Confederacy.

On July the 7, the Nashville Metro Council voted to ask the Tennessee Department of Transportation “to plant vegetation to block the view” of a statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

On July 9, the New Orleans City Council undertook the “legal process” of declaring Confederate statues “nuisances” within the city, so that those statues can then be removed.

On July 7 the Memphis City Council voted unanimously to exhume the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from its 110 year resting place and move it to another location.

Early Thursday morning, the State House of South Carolina voted to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State Capitol. Gov. Nikki Haley has pledged to sign the bill immediately, and the flag may come down as soon as today.

Behold the smeared, clownish face of politics in America today.

(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.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has joined calls to remove a statue of Kentucky-native Jefferson Davis from the state capitol building.

An 83-year-old monument to the Confederate soldiers who came to the defense of Charleston during the Civil War was defaced by “Black Lives Matter” protesters sometime late on Saturday evening.

The statue of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, is under attack at the University of Texas campus in Austin. The statue was first defaced with writing that said “Davis must fall” and “Emancipate UT.” The Student Government also voted in March that the statue must come down. The administration at the University of Texas has not acted on the Student Government vote.