Confederate Heritage 2015

It seems that someone is shocked … absolutely shocked, by my newfound interest in Southern heritage. I’m supposedly engaged in a “Hail Mary pass” because I am “unable to organize” a real movement on my own.

Here are some inconvenient facts which contradict this stupid narrative:

1.) In June 2010, I drove to Columbia, SC to participate in a Confederate flag rally at the South Carolina State Capitol. That’s actually where I met Michael Cushman.

2.) In November 2013, I organized a rally at the Georgia State Capitol to protest the removal of the Tom Watson statue there.

3.) In August 2014, I traveled to Oxford, MS to protest the renaming of Confederate Drive on the Ole Miss campus.

4.) In April 2015, I traveled to Tallahassee, FL to protest a communist student group which had burned the Confederate Battle Flag on the grounds of the Florida State Capitol.

5.) I’ve blogged about the issue for the last seven years on this website.

Now, if I would drive all the way to far flung places like Columbia, Tallahassee, Atlanta, and Oxford to take a stand in defense of Southern heritage, why wouldn’t I support similar efforts in my own backyard in Union Springs, AL and Clayton, AL, which are only 20 miles and 12 miles respectively from where I grew up?

There’s also the fact that I am a board member of the Council of Conservative Citizens which has, gosh, what … been involved in these clashes over the Confederate Battle Flag and Southern heritage for the last thirty years. Actually, there has never been a point in which the CofCC was not involved in Southern heritage issues.