"Kentucky mayor wants to remove Confederate statues"

Via Drudge: “It’s the right thing to do,” he told The Washington Post on Sunday. “But doing it right is just as important.”

Gray conceded that even doing it right can have dangerous consequences.

I am taking action to relocate the Confederate statues. We have thoroughly examined this issue, and heard from many of our citizens.

— Mayor Jim Gray (@JimGrayLexKY) August 12, 2017

Scott Adams seems to favor removing the statues if enough people are offended by them...

Scott Adams wonders why people are proud of strangers https://t.co/RIxIp2hVCm

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) August 13, 2017

"Impatient protesters begin digging up Confederate general’s grave"

"A group of anti-Confederate protesters aren’t happy enough with the declaration by the city of Memphis that it wants to dig up and move the remains of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest."

They want it done now.

A group surrounded a shovel Wednesday and ceremoniously removed a chunk of grass and soil.

“We are going to bring the back hoe, the tractors and the men with the equipment to raise Bedford Forrest from the soil of Memphis,” Isaac Richmond with the “Commission on Religion and Racism” declared to awaiting TV cameras, CBS 3 reported.

Richmond ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year.

He believes if the general who died 137 years ago can just be eliminated, that will really help things.

“If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,” he said, shovel in hand. “We got a fresh shovel full, and we hope that everybody else will follow suit and dig him up.”

Others see their actions as little more than destruction of property.

“They can protest all they want. Just because they don’t like it, doesn’t mean they are right. Digging up the park is just pure and simple vandalism,” says Lee Millar, spokesman Sons of Confederate Veterans.

“We really don’t want to make this a confrontation. We just want to say hey, we want to get on with it!” Richmond insists.

Black Lives Matter?

Anthony Hervey a black man who supports the use of the Confederate Flag was run off the road and died in a car accident on Sunday July 19th.

According to a story in the New York Post:" A passenger in Hervey’s car, Arlene Barnum, tells The Associated Press that Hervey swerved and crashed after another vehicle carrying four or five young black men pulled up alongside them, yelling and looking angry. Barnum said Hervey yelled something back at the other vehicle before losing control and crashing.

“It spun like crazy and we flipped, flipped, flipped. It was awful,” she said."

No further information is forthcoming at this time from the police as it seems likely that are going to cover it up. It has not be categorized as a crime let alone a hate crime. The Justice Department is not investigating. The Cable networks and the New York Times have not covered this incident. Nobody is saying nuthin.

In the meantime the NAACP is forging ahead with it's plans to destroy the Confederate Monument at Stones Mountain on the grounds that taxpayers money should not be spent on maintaining a symbol of "oppression." The fact that is maintained by private funds does not seem to have penetrated the skulls of these mental giants who didn't want to deploy troops to Guam because they were afraid the island would tip over.

I guess Anthony Hervey's life doesn't matter all that much. After they sandblast off his remains from the side of the highway.

"Should US military bases named after Confederates be renamed?"

Via Stars and Stripes

What do these US military bases have in common?

Fort Bragg, Fort Rucker, Fort Hood, Fort Lee, Fort Benning, Fort Gordon, Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Polk, Fort Pickett, Camp Beauregard (Operated by the Louisiana National Guard)

They are all named for Confederate generals. There’s been talk for years about whether this is appropriate, and now in wake of Charleston and the South Carolina Confederate flag, it’s coming up again.

Do you think these posts should be renamed to honor people who fought in the U.S. Army exclusively? Vote, and share your thoughts in the comments section below.