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They Were Not Patriots Confederacy monuments disappear in New Orleans. On Friday, the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee became the last of New Orleans’s four contested monuments to go, an end to more than 130 years of publicly honoring a man who embodied Southern pride and racial oppression. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-orleans-begins-removing-monument-to-confederate-gen-robert-e-lee/2017/05/19/c4ed94f6-364d-11e7-99b0-dd6e94e786e5_story.html?utm_term=.3164af87faed&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1  New Orleans is the latest cityContinue Reading››The postConfederacy Monuments – Shrines IO008 appeared first onImpartial Observer.

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They Were Not Patriots
Confederacy monuments disappear in New Orleans. On Friday, the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee became the last of New Orleans’s four contested monuments to go, an end to more than 130 years of publicly honoring a man who embodied Southern pride and racial oppression. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-orleans-begins-removing-monument-to-confederate-gen-robert-e-lee/2017/05/19/c4ed94f6-364d-11e7-99b0-dd6e94e786e5_story.html?utm_term=.3164af87faed&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1 
New Orleans is the latest city taking down historical but controversial monuments that many say celebrate slavery and the Confederacy. Angry opponents see the move as suppressing or rewriting history in the service of political correctness.

Protests over Confederacy Monuments shake Charlottesville, Virginia
The reality is that racist activist have long been in favor of keeping Confederate monuments up and this has been known to anyone who wanted to pay attention to recent controversies in New Orleans or elsewhere. The protesters chanted, “You will not replace us” and “Blood and soil.” Yes, they were chanting a phrase popularized in Nazi Germany.
South Carolina Removes Confederate Battle Flag From Statehouse Grounds
COLUMBIA, S.C.—July 2015- It took mere seconds to lower the Confederate battle flag for a final time on South Carolina’s Statehouse grounds Friday morning, a quick and muted end to a decade’s long furor. 
Stonewall Jackson Shrine 
The spot of Jackson’s wounding, marked today by a large boulder just behind the Chancellorsville battlefield visitor center. The outbuilding at Fairfield plantation where Jackson died known to this day as the Stonewall Jackson Shrine. Among the unmarked graves of men and women, mothers and sons, there is one monument–to an arm. Jackson’s lost limb is buried in a graveyard near the main Chancellorsville battlefield, at what was then Ellwood Plantation. 




Alabama lawmakers aim to protect ‘all kinds of history’ with the latest bill approved Friday
Alabama lawmakers approved sweeping protections for Confederate monuments, names and other historic memorials on Friday, even as politicians elsewhere rethink the appropriateness of keeping such emblems on public property.
The measure “prohibits the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of any architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial street, or monument” that has stood on public property for 40 or more years,” it reads.
Changes to names or memorials installed between 20 and 40 years ago would need permission from a new state commission. The bill, which critics said aimed at preserving Confederate monuments raised to celebrate white supremacy, passed on a 68 to 29 after a lengthy debate. Rep. Mack Butler, R-Rainbow City, defended the bill as a way to protect history.http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/politics/southunionstreet/2017/05/19/historic-monuments-bill-goes-governor/101879434/