tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20521759782240691762024-03-13T07:23:08.068-07:00Arlington Confederate Monument ReportA blog to report on the campaign to get Presidents of the United States to stop federal government actions which enable neo-ConfederacyEdward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-47741735600294047632020-12-16T09:43:00.002-08:002020-12-16T09:43:43.137-08:00Will be asking President Elect Joe Biden not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument. <p> I gave up on trying to get Donald Trump not to send a wreath after the effort in 2017. People didn't have expectations the petition would be worth the effort. I think a lot of people also understood that if Trump was criticized for sending a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument it would bring up the topic that former Pres. Obama had also sent wreaths to the Arlington Confederate Monument even though prominent scholars had asked him not to. </p><p>Also I had a lot of work to do in de-Confederating Dallas, Texas. That work is done and Joe Biden is now president-elect as of the Electoral College vote at least, if not earlier.</p><p>However, it is going to be 2021 soon and I think it is time to campaign to get Joe Biden to not send a presidential wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument. </p><p>I am thinking that largely the letter I sent to Donald Trump would work as well, but I will have to review it.</p><p>To track the history of this campaign looking at the links to the right of this page. For the Donald Trump campaign I did a lot of historical postings about the time when the Arlington Confederate Monument went up, and I think you can just skip back to the earlier letters and reports.</p><p>So this is a notice that the campaign is on again and I will be starting it up. Haven't decided what the campaign should be yet. I don't think I want to try to get prominent historians again. I am sure they know that it brings up the issue of Obama and they know the neoliberal establishment doesn't want that. </p><p>However, since 2015 neo-Confederacy has been under seige and a lot has happened and for most, if not all major cities and even many mid-range and small cities the Confederate monuments are gone. The recent Defense appropriate bill is renaming ten military bases named after Confederates. The Confederacy is vanishing from the landscape. So in 2021 continuing to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument is not going to be something that is as easily defended. Obama had a beer summit with abusive police officers in 2009 when he sent a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument. Since then the BLM movement took off after that, Confederate monuments have come tumbling down. Can you imagine Biden having a beer summit with abusive police officers?</p><p>It is 2021 shortly and all sorts of possibilities open themselves up. </p>Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-17157684705604906582019-11-17T19:30:00.002-08:002019-11-17T19:30:40.177-08:00Cornel West writes on Barack Obama, "Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama." This is the link to the article.<br />
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<a href="http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/barack-obama-legacy-presidency">theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/barack-obama-legacy-presidency</a><br />
<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-2856578875799681382017-04-02T04:02:00.004-07:002017-05-14T10:07:16.181-07:00Letter finally received by the White House UPDATE: There must be some security delay in sending mail to the White House. I finally got back the green postcard for the certified letter. It was delivered 3/27/2017 as you can see from the stamp and probably now is going through whatever processing mail goes through once it reaches the White House. So there might be a response during this coming week.<br />
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UPDATE: As of 5/14/2017 I have not heard back.Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-704018877927847352017-02-09T17:11:00.002-08:002017-02-11T09:34:36.484-08:00Letter to President Trump asking him not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate monument You can sign the petition here at this link. Please, please let others know about this petition.<br />
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<a href="https://www.change.org/p/edward-h-sebesta-ask-president-trump-not-to-send-a-wreath-to-the-arlington-confederate-monument">https://www.change.org/p/edward-h-sebesta-ask-president-trump-not-to-send-a-wreath-to-the-arlington-confederate-monument</a><br />
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You can read the letter in a PDF format and also download the bibliographic references for this letter at <a href="http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/sign-2017-petition-to-president-trump.html">http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/sign-2017-petition-to-president-trump.html</a>.<br />
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The following is the letter.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since the administration of
Woodrow Wilson, presidents annually have sent a wreath to the Confederate
Monument at Arlington National Cemetery. Prior to the administration of George
H. W. Bush, this was done on or near the birthday of Jefferson Davis. Starting with George H.W. Bush, it has been
done on Memorial Day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I ask you to not send a wreath or
any other commemorative token to the Arlington Confederate Monument during your
administration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are several reasons as to
why this monument, a product of what historians call the “nadir in American
race relations,” should not be honored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Arlington Confederate
Monument is a monument to traitors who through violent insurrection attempted
to secede from the United States of America. It is a monument that monumentally
endorses secession and treason. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the United States of America today
there are multiple secessionist movements.
These movements might seem marginal, but there are reasons to take them seriously.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The long historical view of secession
movements has shown that often they start with very little public support, but
over time they can suddenly be a real threat to the integrity of the nation.
They are like seemingly unimportant hairline cracks that when a object is put under
stress suddenly open up. The Quebec and Scottish movements both started out with
very little support. The Scottish movement for decades was viewed as
insignificant. Yet in a recent 2014 Scottish referendum on independence, the
vote to remain a part of the United Kingdom was only 55.3%. Now there is talk
of another referendum because of the British vote for Brexit. A nation whose
integrity is open to question on the occasion of one major political event or
issue or another will not long endure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Though many might think that the
secession of an American state from the United States of America is farfetched,
recent actions by the Texas State Republican Party in 2015 and 2016 show that
it is not very farfetched at all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Texas Nationalist Movement in 2015
and 2016 lobbied for a measure to place the question of Texas secession on the state
ballot in the 2016 Republican primary. What is disturbing is that they very
nearly succeeded and what is even more disturbing is the lack of patriotism of
the Texas State Republican Party in opposing this movement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At the December 2015 meeting of the sixty-member
State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) the secession measure was actually
voted out of the resolution committee for a vote by the full SREC, and then
voted down by a margin to 2 to 1 by the SREC. What is disturbing is that the
SREC refused to have a roll call vote on it, had a voice vote, and then upon
complaint of the secessionists, had a stand up vote on it, done so fast that it
was hard to see how individuals voted. It is astounding that it got out of the
resolution committee, it is astounding that it got any votes at all in the vote
by the SREC, and it is astounding that all sixty members of the SREC wouldn’t
want to go on record that they are proud to be American citizens and wish to
continue to be so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Even worse at the May 2016 Texas State
Republican Party convention the Platform Committee only voted down the
secession ballot measure 16 to 14 with one member abstaining. You would think
the vote would easily be 31 to 0 by a party which represents themselves as
mainstream. How patriotic is the Texas State Republican Party when a secession
measure is narrowly defeated? I hope that your administration doesn’t appoint
anyone to office that supported secession in Texas or anyone that wasn’t
willing to clearly stand up against secession. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Numerous opinion polls have shown that
a surprisingly large percentages, (in the double digits, often in the twenties),
support state secession. An appalling development as I write this letter is
that the support for secession in California as reported in a Reuters/Ipsos
poll on 1/23/2017 reached 32%. One Minnesota Republican Congressional District
Conventions in 2010 passed resolutions supporting a state’s right to secede. Another
Minnesota Congressional District in the same year came within 2 votes of
passing a resolution supporting a state’s right to secede. I hope that your administration doesn’t
appoint anyone who supported secession in Minnesota, and for that matter I hope
you don’t appoint anyone who supported secession anywhere in the United States.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Secession movements are even more
dangerous to the integrity of a nation when they have the support of a large
hostile foreign power. Though the involvement of Russia in American affairs has
been a point of partisan contention in the past few months, I can assure you
that Russian support for secession movements is very real. The head of one
California secession movement lives in Russia. The Texas Nationalist Movement
has had leaders go to meetings in Russia. Russian groups have even had the pro-secession
League of the South speak at events. Having a large powerful nation supporting
a small secessionist group certainly gives a secessionist group moral support, and
a feeling that what they are doing is recognized as significant and important. As
far as I can ascertain there has been no material support of these groups, but
I ask that your administration be vigilant in making sure that doesn’t happen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Secession is a threat to the integrity
of the United States of America. Unfortunately across the nation and at the Arlington
National Cemetery, one of the most sacred sites of our nation, we have
monuments to honor secessionists who through violent insurrection sought to
tear America apart. We normalize secession everyday with these monuments. It
should not be surprising that secession is chosen by various groups as an
option when they have some gripe when we portray violent secessionists as
heroes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If the Confederates had gotten their
way, there would be no America to make great again. Tearing America into different nations
doesn’t make America great, it terminates America. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not sending a wreath to the Arlington
Confederate Monument would be an important message: that secession is not
acceptable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Arlington Confederate Monument
insults and denounces Abraham Lincoln, the first elected Republican president.
Inscribed on the monument are the words “<i>Victrix
causea Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni</i>.”
This is a line from a poem “Pharasalia” by the Roman poet Lucan. It is used to smear Lincoln as a tyrant and
the United States of America as being tyrannical. A speech by Fr. Alister C.
Anderson, as Chaplain-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), at
the 85th anniversary of the dedication of the Arlington Confederate Monument in
1999, published in the <i>Confederate
Veteran</i>, Vol. 4 2000, explains the meaning of this inscription as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Victix
causa, “the winning cause (or side)”, referring to Julius Caesar’s inordinate
ambition and his lust for total power and control, is compared with President
Lincoln and the Federal Government’s desire and power to crush and destroy the
South. Next we read diis placuit which translates “pleased the gods.” In this
context, gods are with a small “g” and refer to the gods of mythology; the gods
of money, power, war and domination, greed, hate, lust and ambition. Next we
come to the noble climax of this quotation, sed victa cantoni which translates
“but the losing side (or cause) pleased Cato”. Here Lucan, the poet, refers to
Pompey’s fight to retain the old conservative, traditional republican
government of Rome. Even though Pompey was defeated by Caesar’s greater
military power, his defeat, nevertheless, please the noble Cato. And here, of
course, Cato represents the noble aims of the Southern Confederacy. The South
fought politically to maintain the Constitution which had guided her safely for
eighty-seven years. She merely wanted to be left alone and governed by it. The
aggression-minded totalitarian Northern government would not permit that and so
she pleased the gods of abolitionism, transcendentalism, utopianism, state
centralism, universalism, rationalism and a host of other “isms.” [No italics in
the original.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sending a wreath to the Arlington
Confederate Monument endorses the monument and legitimizes this defamation of
Abraham Lincoln. I ask you to consider these lines from a poem, “O Captain! My
Captain!” by Walt Whitman: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O
Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While
follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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O heart! heart! heart!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the bleeding drops of red,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Where
on the deck my Captain lies, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fallen
cold and dead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The fact that any wreath by any
official has ever been sent to this monument with its smug, snarky slander of
Lincoln is a disgrace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I applaud your choice of a Lincoln
Bible for your inaugural oath. This is a great repudiation of the
neo-Confederate denunciations of Lincoln. However to send a wreath to the
Arlington Confederate Monument with its inscription, “<i>Victrix causea Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni</i>,” is a mockery of
your choice of the Lincoln Bible and renders it meaningless. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The monument isn’t just a memorial to
the dead. It is intended to glorify the Confederacy, a secession attempt to
preserve slavery and white supremacy. It is also a monument to the defeat of
Reconstruction and the triumph of white supremacy in America. This is clear in
the speeches made at its dedication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The monument was given to the Federal
Government by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) which raised the
funds to erect it. The UDC’s reasons for the monument are instructive. In the
address of Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens, President General of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy at the unveiling of the Arlington Confederate
monument in 1914, makes it clear that the monument is to glorify the ideas of
the Confederacy. At the unveiling,
Stevens said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
ideas our heroes cherished were and are beneficial as they are everlasting.
These were living then; they are living to-day and shall live to-morrow and
work the betterment of mankind. Thus our heroes are of those who, though dead,
still toil for man through the arms and brains of those their examples have
inspired and quickened to nobler things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The need for the monument then is
further explained by Stevens as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From
the dawn of time until the present men and women have built memorials to those
they esteemed great, to those whose memories they hoped to perpetuate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Stevens contrasts monuments to those
were merely great in deeds but not in morality with the Confederate soldier who
she feels were great in both deed and moral worth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Such
monuments mock and sadden each thoughtful heart. They hold aloft ideals of
force and fraud. They show how in a pitiless, mistaken past success could gild
a crime. They teach that great talent even selfishly used could evoke men’s
applause and shut the “gates of mercy on mankind.” But not all monuments are
like these. Some are like the monument the Daughters of the Confederacy
dedicate to-day. They show the future how noble the past has been and place it
under bond to prove of equal worth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thus this monument is intended
memorialize the soldiers because the ideals for which the soldiers fought which
were the ideals of the Confederacy, white supremacy and slavery. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since the United Daughters of the
Confederacy has upheld in multiple publications in the early 20th Century that
the Ku Klux Klan was the heroic effort of the Confederate soldier, we have an
idea what Stevens thought as to what the “noble past” and “ideas our heroes
cherished” were. Again, one of these “ideas” was secession to preserve the
enslavement of Africans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Stevens herself, as President of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy, promoted the idea that the Ku Klux Klan
and other violent white supremacist groups in Reconstruction were heroes. The
Alexander H. Stephens UDC Chapter in Ohio published, “Secret Political
Societies in the South during the Period of Reconstruction,” a publication which
defended the Ku Klux Klan, to raise money.
In a published notice to the UDC membership in the <i>Confederate Veteran</i> in 1914, she announced the booklet’s
publication and states, “This object has your President General’s hearty
endorsement, and she hopes it will receive your hearty cooperation.” The UDC later printed the address in their
publication, <i>Southern Magazine</i>, July
1936. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Likewise General Bennett H. Young,
Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, who spoke at the 1914
unveiling, also defends the cause of the Confederate soldier, the
neo-Confederate cause of their descendants, and defends secession in his speech
at the dedication as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At
this hour I represent the survivors of the Southern army. Though this
Confederate monument is erected on Federal ground, which makes it unusual and
remarkable, yet the men from whom I hold commission would only have me come
without apologies or regrets from the past. Those for whom I speak gave the
best they had to their land and country. They spared no sacrifice and no
privation to win for the Southland national independence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
am sure I shall not offend the proprieties of either the hour of the occasion
when I say that we still glory in the records of our beloved and immortal dead.
The dead for whom this monument stands sponsor died for what they believed to
be right. Their surviving comrades and their children still believe that for
which they suffered and laid down their lives was just; that their premises in
the Civil War were according to our Constitution…. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
sword said the South was wrong, but the sword is not necessarily guided by
conscience or reason. The power of numbers and the longest guns cannot destroy
principle nor obliterate truth. Right lives forever, it survives battles,
failures, conflicts, and death. There is no human power, however mighty, that
can in the end annihilate truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Young’s speech is obscure as to what
the Confederate soldiers, “believed to be right,” or what “their premises in
the Civil War” regarding “our Constitution,” were. However, secession
conventions proclaimed what the purpose of secession was: white supremacy, and
the preservation of slavery. These
causes were also endorsed in the speeches of secession commissioners sent by
one slave state to another to encourage further secession. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">General Bennett H. Young was a
supporter of Mr. S.E.F. Rose’s pro-KKK book, “History of the Ku-Klux Klan,”
(1915) arguing that, “all the children and all the descendants of the men of
the South” should read this book of the defeat of “carpet-bagger and negro
rule.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Another indication of what the ideals
of these Confederate soldiers were is revealed in a speech about the Ku Klux
Klan given by Thomas Upton Sission to the 19<sup>th</sup> Annual Convention of
the United Confederate Veterans, Wednesday, June 9, 1909. In the speech Sission at length explains that
the Ku Klux Klan was the heroic effort of the Confederate soldier during
Reconstruction. The minutes of the Reunion, inform the reader that Sission’s
address was “accorded the most enthusiastic attention.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As for Young’s statement of “No
Apologies. No Regrets,” this is said despite the historical record of
Confederate soldiers having committed racial atrocities, war crimes of massacring surrendered African American
soldiers on at least eight occasions. To send a wreath to the Arlington
Confederate Monument is a desecration of the sacrifice of these massacred
soldiers. The ultimate sacrifices of these massacred soldiers obviously didn’t
matter when the Arlington Confederate Monument was dedicated, but let their
sacrifices matter now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Young’s speech conflates the “South”
with the “Confederacy,” thus imprisoning the South inside a metaphysical
Confederacy. Not sending a wreath will assist the South in escaping this
metaphysical Confederacy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In rebuttal to one of Young’s claims, it
was more than force of arms which found that the Confederacy was wrong, it was
an America marching forward in history, freeing the slaves, and freeing America
itself from the practice and ideology of slavery. It was this America that
found the Confederacy wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Another speaker was President Woodrow
Wilson whose presidential administration segregated the federal government and
drove many African Americans federal employees out of their jobs. While
president, he helped launch D.W. Griffith’s notorious pro-Klan movie <i>Birth of a Nation</i> by having it shown in
the White House. It is not surprising
that he would show such a movie. In Wilson’s deplorable racist work, “History
of the American People,” in Vol. 5, he sees giving African Americans the right
vote as an oppression and justifies violent terror writing:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There
reconstruction, whose object had been, not the political rehabilitation of the
southern governments, but the political enfranchisement of the negroes, had
wrought a work of bitterness incomparably deeper, incomparably more difficult
to undo, than the mere effects of war and a virtual conquest of arms. They had
made the ascendency of the part of the Union seem to the men of the South
nothing less than the corruption and destruction of their society, a reign of
ignorance, a regime of power basely used; and this revolt, these secret orders
with their ugly work of violence and terror, these infinite, desperate shifts
to be rid of the burden and nightmare of what had been put upon them, were the
consequence. [Lack of capitalization of “negroes” in the original.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hilary A. Herbert, Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Arlington Confederate Monument Association, makes it
clear that the monument stands for the legitimacy of secession, stands in
opposition to Reconstruction, and stands for white supremacy. In his “History
of The Arlington Confederate Monument at Arlington, Virginia,” he writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
1867 the seceding States were subjected to the horrors of Congressional
Reconstruction, but in a few years American manhood had triumphed; Anglo-Saxon
civilization had been saved; local self-government under the Constitution had
been restored; ex-Confederates were serving the National Government, and true
patriots, North and South, were addressing themselves to the noble task of restoring
fraternal feeling between the sections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Within
a generation after Congressional Reconstruction, American historians condemned
it …. as “a crime against civilization,”
and public opinion seems to have approved the verdict. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Herbert goes on to refer to the
Confederate soldiers who joined the Ku Klux Klan and Red Shirts as being heroes
for restoring white supremacy and overthrowing Reconstruction, referring to
“the soldiers who fought the battles of the Confederacy and … by their courage
and devotion during the two decades after the war, were saviors of Anglo-Saxon
civilization in their section.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Herbert was an active white supremacist,
a revolting racist, working for the denigration and subjugation of African
Americans. In his address, “The Race Problem at the South: Introductory
Remarks,” Herbert argues that African Americans weren’t fit to be given the
right to vote stating, “…in my opinion the granting of universal suffrage to
the Negro was the mistake of the nineteenth century.” Herbert contributed to and edited the book,
“The Solid South.” It is a book that aims to historically prove that African
Americans in the South should not be given the vote. In the concluding chapter
of the book, “Sunrise,” Herbert argues against Congress giving African Americans
the franchise with a threat of race war if Congress attempts to do so. Herbert also wrote the, “The Abolitionist
Crusade and its Consequences,” not to just attack the anti-slavery movement,
but American efforts to give African Americans civil rights in America, He argued that African Americans are incapable
of civilization by themselves and insisted that it was necessary to
disenfranchise them. A typical comment of this rancid racist text is, “Taken in
the aggregate, the shortcomings of the negro are numerous and regrettable, but
not greater than was to be expected. The general advance of an inferior race
will never equal that of one which is superior by nature and already centuries
ahead.” [Page 236, lack of capitalization in the original.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These are the types of people who
worked to have the Arlington Confederate Monument constructed and dedicated and
the types of people who accepted it. The monument crowned the establishment of
white supremacy in the South and it is a monument to the triumph of white
supremacy in America. Sending a wreath to the monument endorses this triumph. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sending a wreath to the Arlington
Confederate Monument also enhances its prestige and the prestige of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy and of the neo-Confederate groups which assemble
there each year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The United Daughters of the Confederacy
has a long history of supporting discrimination and racism. They praised the Ku
Klux Klan in the early part of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, they published
numerous articles against the Supreme Court decision of <i>Brown vs. Board of Topeka</i> and in support of segregation during the
Civil Rights Era in the 1960s. Even in the 21<sup>st</sup> century they praise
the white terrorist Red Shirts of Reconstruction and maintain a museum to honor
them calling it the “Only Shrine of its kind,” in an article in the June/July
2001 <i>UDC Magazine</i>. They promoted and
praised the extremist pro-Klan book, “Southern by the Grace of God,” by Michael
Andrew Grissom from the 1980s and into the 21<sup>st</sup> century. More
recently, Retta D. Tindal, UDC Historian General 2010-2012, wrote in a Dec.
2012 article in <i>UDC Magazine</i> that
“Newly liberated Negroes were not prepared for their freedom.” The article also
asserts that that infamous Black Codes were fair and appropriate, and denounces
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the amendment which gave African Americans
citizenship under the Constitution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Sons of Confederate Veterans also
has a history of supporting racism and extremism. To detail it all would require
a lengthy article so just some examples will be given here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On pages 70-71 in the Jan./Feb. 2017 <i>Confederate Veteran</i> in their two-page ad
for “Confederate Gifts from GHQ,” is the anti-Semitic book “The South Under
Siege 1830-2000,” which argues that the Civil Rights movement is a Jewish
conspiracy to undermine Christian society. In the book Conner asks, “First, why
would the Jewish-controlled U.S. news media be so willing to distort the truth
about racial violence so greatly, in order to obtain hate-crimes legislation?”
and as a possible answer Conner poses another question, “… are they the acts of
a dangerously-paranoid people?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The book, quoting the notorious anti-Semite
Kevin MacDonald, claims that the idea of racial equality in intelligence, was a
Jewish conspiracy stating:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Until
after the turn of the 20th century, anthropologists had routinely recorded
genetic as well as cultural differences between races and ethnic groups – that
being the whole point of anthropology. The highlighted differences among the
races had included those of intelligence. But as Kevin MacDonald points out in <i>The Culture of Critique</i>, a
German-Jewish-immigrant named Franz Boas changed all that. At Columbia, Boas
arbitrarily claimed that biological differences between races were miniscule –
that environment alone shaped the behavior of the different races and ethnic
groups (a la Rousseau). A number of other Jewish anthropologists swiftly
adopted Boas’ position; and soon the Jews dominated the field of cultural
anthropology. As MacDonald points out, by 1915 the Jews had gained control of
the American Anthropological Association; and by 1926 they were chairing the anthropology
departments at all of the major universities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The ad recommends the book to the SCV
members as, “An excellent defense against the ‘official’ history currently
taught in the government schools.” The book is also sold in the <i>2016-2017 SCV Merchandise Catalog</i> with
the same recommendation. A 2003 book
review in the <i>Southern Mercury</i>,
published by the SCV Educational PAC, praises the book stating that it is a
“masterful volume.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The SCV sells and has sold for years <i>The
Birth of a Nation, </i>recommending it as “silent film masterpiece” with the
statement that the movie is “so politically incorrect that it hasn’t been shown
publicly in years!” implying that it is a valid film but suppressed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At the 2015 SCV national convention in
Richmond, Virginia the “heritage luncheon” speakers were James Ronald Kennedy
and Walter Donald Kennedy. Walter Donald Kennedy is the author of “Rekilling
Lincoln” which seeks to “rekill” the slain president by destroying his
reputation. Walter Kennedy wrote the
cover article for the Nov./Dec. 2012 <i>Confederate
Veteran</i> titled “Lincoln’s Band of Tyrants,” in which Lincoln is grouped
with Karl Marx and Adolph Hitler and concludes with the sentence, “Lincoln,
Marx, Engels and Hitler are indeed a strange but deadly ‘Band of Brothers.’” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In summary, sending a wreath to the
Arlington Confederate Monument is wrong for these reasons: it legitimizes
treason, it legitimizes secession; it is a monument for white supremacy; it
slanders Abraham Lincoln; and it enables neo-Confederate organizations with
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In your inaugural speech you said,
“When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.” Your
speech talks about unity, stating, “We share one heart, one home, and one
glorious destiny.” White supremacy is of course unpatriotic. It is the idea
that we are divided into different classes of Americans based on race, which is
deadly to the American idea. You also stated
that “The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all
Americans.” Sending wreaths to monuments honoring the Confederacy undermines
this idea. I earnestly hope that you will embrace the sense of common national
identity you proclaimed in your inaugural speech. Do not pursue business as usual and please give
this letter due consideration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Sincerely
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<a href="https://www.change.org/p/edward-h-sebesta-ask-president-trump-not-to-send-a-wreath-to-the-arlington-confederate-monument">https://www.change.org/p/edward-h-sebesta-ask-president-trump-not-to-send-a-wreath-to-the-arlington-confederate-monument</a><br />
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I will have a WORD version of the letter available later. I have a PDF version available here to read. I decided to not have a WORD version on the internet but a PDF instead. Below is a link to both the letter to President Trump and a bibliographic resource to the contents of the letter.<br />
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<a href="http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/sign-2017-petition-to-president-trump.html">http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/sign-2017-petition-to-president-trump.html</a><br />
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Please sign and let others know about this petition. Goal is one million signatures.<br />
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The certified letter has been mailed.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-19387424282291015422017-02-05T11:27:00.000-08:002017-02-05T11:27:30.086-08:00Slocum Massacre in Texas and "Americans Forgotten Mass Lynching" in ArkansasA couple articles about white attacks on African Americans in the period in which the Arlington Confederate Monument went up.<br />
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<a href="http://tpr.org/post/should-texas-remember-or-forget-slocum-massacre#stream/0">http://tpr.org/post/should-texas-remember-or-forget-slocum-massacre#stream/0</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/16/america-s-forgotten-mass-lynching-when-237-people-were-murdered-in-arkansas.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/16/america-s-forgotten-mass-lynching-when-237-people-were-murdered-in-arkansas.html</a>Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-7749563915871699202017-02-03T18:36:00.001-08:002017-02-03T18:41:20.123-08:00Atlanta Race Riots in 1906 In 1906 in Atlanta white mobs inflamed by Atlanta newspapers attacked African Americans. The death tool estimates vary with at least 25 dead. It was a horrific race riot.<br />
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This is a C-Span talk by Professor Bauerlein about his book, "Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906."<br />
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<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?165421-1/negrophobia-race-riot-atlanta">https://www.c-span.org/video/?165421-1/negrophobia-race-riot-atlanta</a><br />
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There has been a play about the Atlanta Race Riots.<br />
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<a href="http://www.artsatl.com/review-innovative-four-days-fury-unearths-ugly-truths-atlanta-race-riots/">http://www.artsatl.com/review-innovative-four-days-fury-unearths-ugly-truths-atlanta-race-riots/</a><br />
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This is another article about six different riots.<br />
<a href="http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/09/19/6-instances-when-whites-took-to-rioting-leading-to-death-despair-destruction/">http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/09/19/6-instances-when-whites-took-to-rioting-leading-to-death-despair-destruction/</a><br />
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The <i>Confederate Veteran</i> published an article in 1906 blaming the race riots on African Americans. Below is the link.<br />
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This website has documentation about how the Confederacy and neo-Confederacy is really about white supremacy.<br />
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This was the world of the Arlington Confederate Monument. A world where African Americans were ground under.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-32809688969926418682017-02-03T17:38:00.003-08:002017-02-11T09:41:05.067-08:00First draft of letter to Donald Trump done and sent to colleagueThe first draft of the letter to Donald Trump asking him not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument was finished this morning and sent to a colleague for proofing and editing.<br />
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I am planning on getting the letter mailed by certified mail before mid-February, hopefully early next week.<br />
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You can co-sign at<br />
<a href="https://www.change.org/p/edward-h-sebesta-ask-president-trump-not-to-send-a-wreath-to-the-arlington-confederate-monument">https://www.change.org/p/edward-h-sebesta-ask-president-trump-not-to-send-a-wreath-to-the-arlington-confederate-monument</a><br />
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You can download a PDF of the letter and also the bibliographic references for the letter at<br />
<a href="http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/sign-2017-petition-to-president-trump.html">http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/sign-2017-petition-to-president-trump.html</a><br />
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Mailed today.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-9366879175216505142017-01-30T10:02:00.001-08:002017-01-30T10:03:08.930-08:00Daisy McLaurin Stevens, United Daughters of the Confederate President General and Arlington Confederate Monument Dedication Speaker recommends pro-Klan Booklet. Daisy McLaurin Stevens, President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) was the UDC speaker for the dedication of the Arlington Confederate Monument.<br />
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She was also thought the Ku Klux Klan were heroes.<br />
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This is the letter from <i>Confederate Veteran</i>, Vol. 22, 1914, page 152 from Stevens addressed to the UDC membership. She endorses the publication of a pro-Klan speech in a pamphlet and urges the membership of the UDC to purchase it. Text of interest is in the 2nd half of the letter.<br />
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You can download the address from <a href="https://archive.org/details/secretpoliticals00cook"> https://archive.org/details/secretpoliticals00cook</a><br />
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The address by Walter Henry Cook, at Western Reserve University, was published by a UDC local chapter. It is not known when it was published, but perhaps it was in 1914.<br />
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This is what Confederate "heritage" is really all about, white supremacy and rancid racism.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-15133378404501114452017-01-23T15:53:00.001-08:002017-02-10T10:17:02.178-08:00Composing a letter to President Trump asking him to not send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate MonumentI am composing a letter to President Trump asking him not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument.<br />
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I am hoping to finish it tonight. Then send it to a friend for proof reading.<br />
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One of the major changes from the 2009 letter to Barack Obama is the rise of secessionist movements in America and the support for secession in the opinion polls.<br />
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You can co-sign here.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-8751740973495202792017-01-23T15:47:00.000-08:002017-01-23T15:49:46.043-08:00Tulsa Race RiotThe Tulsa Race Riot was a horrific massacre of African Americans by white rioters.<br />
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It included airplanes bombing the African American neighborhood in Tulsa.<br />
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<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ebony.com/black-history/the-destruction-of-black-wall-street-405#axzz4WdCvcd44">http://www.ebony.com/black-history/the-destruction-of-black-wall-street-405#axzz4WdCvcd44</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4a7tabocNk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4a7tabocNk</a><br />
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The Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma insisted on providing their facilities to the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 2013.Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-25174179435189621442017-01-22T05:20:00.000-08:002017-01-22T05:20:34.721-08:00Atlanta Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy pamphlet with ad by the Ku Klux Klan<br />
The Ku Klux Klan ad shown below appears in a pamphlet by the Atlanta Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is an ad by the early 20th century Ku Klux Klan founded by William Joseph Simmons. The ad is a pack of lies. The KKK of the early 20th century was violent and lawless. It is not surprising that the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) would accept such an ad in a pamphlet devoted to their history. The UDC was very enthusiastic about the Reconstruction KKK.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-75964051083073533902017-01-21T08:46:00.000-08:002017-01-21T08:46:51.963-08:00Hilary A. Herbert who headed up the committee to get the Arlington Confederate Monument constructed writes on Race in the South<a href="https://ia801604.us.archive.org/28/items/jstor-1009884/1009884.pdf">https://ia801604.us.archive.org/28/items/jstor-1009884/1009884.pdf</a><br />
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Self-congratulatory racist.Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-88728224522980077672017-01-21T04:25:00.000-08:002017-01-21T04:25:49.399-08:00Woodrow Wilson, shows the movie "Birth of a Nation" in the White HouseThis article is how Woodrow Wilson aided in the promotion of the movie "Birth of a Nation."<br />
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<a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/episodes/the-birth-of-a-nation-and-black-protest/">http://chnm.gmu.edu/episodes/the-birth-of-a-nation-and-black-protest/</a><br />
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Incidentally, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which often participates in annual celebrations at the Arlington Confederate Monument, sells "Birth of a Nation" as a film that accurately represents history. <a href="https://scv.secure-sites.biz/store.php">https://scv.secure-sites.biz/store.php</a><br />
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This is a more descriptive review of the film.<br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/02/07/why-birth-of-a-nation-is-still-the-most-controversial-movie-ever/">http://nypost.com/2015/02/07/why-birth-of-a-nation-is-still-the-most-controversial-movie-ever/</a><br />
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This is the film which Woodrow Wilson praised as "history written with lightning."Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-64454051345818397022017-01-16T17:26:00.000-08:002017-01-16T17:36:09.919-08:00"Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century" by Nicholas Palter<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Crow-Wilson-Administration-Segregation/dp/0870818643">https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Crow-Wilson-Administration-Segregation/dp/0870818643</a><br />
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Sometime ago, I purchased "Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century," by Nicholas Patler It is about the resistance to Woodrow Wilson implementation of segregation in employment by the Federal government.<br />
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What I really liked about this book is the preface. I haven't had time to read the book yet, but will.<br />
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Patler in the preface to the book describes his attendance at a history session about Woodrow Wilson where the historians really didn't want to deal with Wilson's racism. Patler writes that the audience members "referred to the inconsistency between Wilson's ardent defense of individual freedom and equality at home and abroad the the poor treatment of blacks in America ..."<br />
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Patler reveals that the historians in the conference were really fans of Wilson rather than historians.<br />
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"I did not hear a good explanation that day. Although Dr. Link admitted that this attitude was 'a blemish on the Wilson administration," it seemed the speakers in general tiptoed around the topic, and the consensus was, in so many words, 'Why focus on this negative aspect of the Wilson years when he accomplished so many positive things?'" </blockquote>
Patler's mentions in his preface that in his investigations he discovered:<br />
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"Not only were African Americans segregated en masse in federal departments, but in many cases they were harassed, downgraded, and terminated as well."<br />
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There is this video of him talking on C-Span about Woodrow Wilson<br />
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Yet, Princeton University decided that Wilson still needed to be honored as some type of hero.<br />
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This was the general environment of the early 20th century in which the Arlington Confederate Monument went up.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-81433877525030588592017-01-16T04:17:00.000-08:002017-01-16T04:20:56.565-08:00United Daughters of the Confederacy North Carolina Division Ku Klux Klan Post CardThe United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is the group that led the effort to erect the Arlington Confederate Monument. This post card by the North Carolina Division of the UDC shows what Confederate "heritage" meant to the UDC.<br />
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The North Carolina Division of the UDC was so proud of their donation of a flag of the Ku Klux Klan to the Museum of the Confederacy that they issued a post card to publicize it.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-85049203702990557372017-01-14T12:32:00.000-08:002017-01-31T19:21:08.236-08:00William Howard Taft's "Little Brown Brothers." The Philippines American War and the brutal suppression of Philippine IndependenceWilliam Howard Taft was the first American Governor-General of the Philippines when the Philippine Independence movement was brutally suppressed by the American army after the Spanish American War.<br />
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The Filipinos had an independence movement and with the defeat of the Spanish by the Americans they sought to establish an independent Philippines. The American government however decided to keep the Philippine as part of the spoils of war and waged a brutal ware of suppression against the Philippine independence movement.<br />
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The death tool of Filipinos is estimated to be 200,000.<br />
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<a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/war">https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/war</a><br />
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The book, "Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn," by Leon Wolff, was published in 1962 and was awarded the Francis Parker Prize by the Society of American Historians an affiliate of the American Historical Association.<br />
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It was reissued in 2001 updated and including accounts of numerous atrocities committed by U.S. Soldiers during the Philippines-American War. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_brown_brother">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_brown_brother</a><br />
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It is available in both hard cover and soft cover and used copies are available.<br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Little-Brown-Brother-Purchased-Philippine/dp/1582882096/">https://www.amazon.com/Little-Brown-Brother-Purchased-Philippine/dp/1582882096/</a><br />
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This isn't the only book available on the topic. Another book is "Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903," by Stuart Creighton Miller, who was a professor at San Francisco State University and published by Yale University. It also is available in hard cover and soft cover and used copies. Though the used hard copies are really expensive, but the used paperback copies are quite cheap.<br />
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I just finished ordering both of them.<br />
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This is one article about William Howard Taft's administration of the Philippines.<br />
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<a href="http://www.libertas.bham.ac.uk/publications/Essays/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20BAASPhilippinesAdamBurns[1].pdf">http://www.libertas.bham.ac.uk/publications/Essays/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20BAASPhilippinesAdamBurns[1].pdf</a><br />
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This is a dissertation, "William Howard Taft and the Philippines, 1900-1921."<br />
<a href="https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/280064.pdf">https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/280064.pdf</a><br />
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I am not necessarily endorsing them, but I think they are eye-opening. The whole occupation is just appalling in its racism.<br />
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For those people who always like to excuse the atrocities and behaviors of the past, I give you a speech delivered in 1899 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale University by William Graham Sumner. It was published in the <i>Yale Law Journal</i>, Jan. 1899. The title is, "The Conquest of the United States by Spain." Please no arguments about presentism. The occupation of the Philippines was understood to be an appalling idea then as it is understood to be now. The link to the address given by Sumner is below.<br />
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<a href="http://praxeology.net/WGS-CUS.htm">http://praxeology.net/WGS-CUS.htm</a><br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-30988987893434132192017-01-12T03:40:00.001-08:002017-01-12T03:41:37.731-08:00The Brownsville Incident The Brownsville Incident was were 167 African American troops stationed in Brownsville, Texas were unjustly dishonorably discharged in 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt as part of Roosevelt's pandering to white supremacists.<br />
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The dishonorable discharges were reversed in 1972 by Richard Nixon.<br />
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The white citizens of Brownsville, Texas were furious that African American troops were stationed in their town and waged a campaign to get rid of them.<br />
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<a href="http://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=trotter_review">http://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=trotter_review</a><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsville_Affair">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsville_Affair</a><br />
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<a href="https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/articles/blacksMilitary/BlacksMilitaryBrownsville.htm">https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/articles/blacksMilitary/BlacksMilitaryBrownsville.htm</a><br />
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There is a book on the Brownsville Incident by, "The Brownsville Raid," by John D. Weaver, published in 1970.<br />
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<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPoa6od2tYUC&pg=PA321#v=onepage&q&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPoa6od2tYUC&pg=PA321#v=onepage&q&f=false</a><br />
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This was the America which allowed a Confederate monument at the Arlington National Cemetery.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-17090308369791556262017-01-09T09:58:00.000-08:002017-01-09T09:58:04.985-08:00Rayford W. Logan's book "The Betrayal of the Negro" Rayford W. Logan's book, "The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson" is a classic and major work of African American history. It is about the oppression of African Americans from after the fall of Reconstruction in 1877 to the end of Woodrow Wilson's term and show how the political system betrayed African Americans rights as human beings.<br />
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It is widely available in libraries and you can order it online and often it is in book stores. It is well worth reading. In reading it you will understand the context of the acceptance of having a Confederate monument erected in Arlington National Cemetery. The monument is the crowning of the triumph of white supremacy in American and the defeat of African American civil rights.<br />
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These are some links to learn about the book.<br />
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<a href="https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3437918">https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3437918</a><br />
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This is the wikipedia page on Rayford Logan:<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayford_Logan">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayford_Logan</a><br />
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Besides blogging on the effort to convince President-Elect Donald Trump not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument, I am also going to be blogging items about the times when this monument went up so that this white supremacist monument is seen as a phenomenon of a white supremacist time.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-32369082682804376652017-01-08T14:35:00.000-08:002017-01-31T19:38:03.964-08:00President William Howard Taft in 1912 explains to the United Daughters of the Confederacy at their General Convention that the Civil War is about white pride.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Taft’s speech at the United Daughters of the Confederacy General Convention in 1912 where he explains the meaning of the Civil War as being white pride nationwide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pages 18
– 21, “History of The Arlington Confederate Monument at Arlington, Virginia,” by
Hilary A. Herbert, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Arlington
Confederate Monument Association. Copyright United Daughters of the Confederacy
1914. <b>Boldface</b> is added to this speech by the blogger. Spelling as found in the book. The speech given by Taft is an erasure of history. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Also, note Taft's warm feeling about the incoming Woodrow Wilson administration which will institute segregation in Federal employment and Wilson himself will show the pro-Ku Klux Klan movie, "Birth of a Nation," in the White House and praise it as "history written with lightning." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Evening,
November 12, 1912.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mrs.
Marion Butler, President of the District of Columbia Division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, introduced the President of the Board of
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who heartily welcomed the Daughters to
the city in glowing words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mrs.
Butler next introduced the President of the United States, Mr. Taft, saying:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"This
is the first time the Daughters of the Confederacy have held an Annual Convention
out of the South. We have assembled here to lay the corner-stone of a
Confederate monument, to be erected at Arlington, the Federal Cemetery, the
former home of Lee. Permission to build this monument was granted to the
Daughters of the District of Columbia and the Confederate Veterans by Mr. Taft
when Secretary of War. We deem it most fortunate and propitious that we are
assembled in the National Capital for such a purpose and are to be welcomed by
the same distinguished citizen, who is now President of the United States. We trust
that the building of this monument will be the keystone of the arch of a
reunited country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ladies,
the President."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Ladies
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
beg to welcome you to Washington. You have captured this city beautiful and
made it more lovely by your presence. As its temporary head, I give you the
freedom of the city, and recognize that in what you have done, you have founded
a shrine and an altar here which will be visited in the future by many a
faithful pilgrim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If
the occasion which brings you here were the mourning at the bier of a lost
cause, I know that the nice sense of propriety of a fine old social school
would have prevented you from inviting me, as the President of the United States,
to be present. You are not here to mourn or support a cause. You are here to
celebrate, and justly to celebrate, the heroism, the courage and the sacrifice
to the uttermost of your fathers and your brothers and your mothers and your
sisters, and of all your kin, in a cause which they believed in their hearts to
be right, and for which they were willing to lay down their lives. That cause
ceased to be, except in history, now more than half a century ago. It was one
which could elicit from half a nation, and brave and warlike race, a four year struggle
in which lives, property, and everything save honor were willingly parted with
for its sake. So great was the genius for military leadership of many of your
generals, so adaptable was the individual of your race to effective warlike training,
so full of patriotic sacrifice were your people that now when all the
bitterness of the struggle on our part of the North has passed away, we are
able to share with you of the South your just pride in your men and women who carried
on the unexampled contest to an exhaustion that few countries ever suffered.
The calm observer and historian, whatever his origin, may now rejoice in his
heart that the Lord ordained it as it is. <b>But no son of the South and no son of
the North, with any spark in him of pride of race, can fail to rejoice in that
common heritage of courage and glorious sacrifice that we have in the story of
the Civil War and on both sides in the Civil War.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
has naturally taken a long time for the spirit of hostility that such an
internecine struggle develops completely to die away. Of course it has lasted a
less time with those who were the victors and into whose homes and domestic lives
the horrows of war were not directly thrust. The physical evidences of war were
traceable in the South for decades after they had utterly disappeared in the
North in the few places in which they existed. Then there are conditions in the
South which are a constant reminder of the history of the past. Until within
recent decades, prosperity has not shed her boon of comfort upon the South with
as generous a hand as upon the North. Hence those of us at the North who have been
sometimes impatient at a little flash now and then of the old sectional
antagonism are unreasonable in our failure to appreciate these marked
differences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For
years after the war, the Republican Party, which had carried the nation through
the war to its successful conclusion, was in control of the administration of
the Government, and it was impossible for the Southerner to escape the feeling
that he was linked in his allegiance to an alien nation and one with whose
destiny he found it difficult to identify himself. Time, however, cures much,
and after awhile there came a Democratic Administration of four years, and then
another one of four years. Southerners were called to Federal offices, they
came to have more and more influence in the halls of Congress and in the Senate,
and the responsibility of the Government brought with it a sense of closer
relationship to it and to all the people for whom the Government was carried
on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
speak for my immediate Republican predecessors in office when I say that they
all labored to bring the sections more closely together. I am sure I can say
that, so far as in me has lain, I have left nothing undone to reduce the
sectional feeling and to make the divisions of this country geographical only. But
I am free to admit that circumstances have rendered it more difficult for a
Republican Administration than for a Democratic Administration, to give to our
Southern brothers and sisters the feeling of close relationship and ownership
in the Government of the United States. Therefore, in solving the mystery of
that Providential dispensation which now brings on a Democratic Administration
to succeed this, we must admit the good that will come to the whole country in
a more confirmed sense of partnership in this Government which our brothers and
sisters of the Southland will enjoy in an Administration, in which Southern
opinion will naturally have greater influence, and the South greater
proportionate representation in the Cabinet, in Congress, and in other high
official stations. While I rejoice in the steps that I have been able to take
to heal the wounds of sectionalism and to convey to the Southern people, as far
as I could, my earnest desire to make this country one, I can not deny that my
worthy and distinguished successor has a greater opportunity, and I doubt not
he will use it for the benefit of the nation at large.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
fell to my official lot, with universal popular approval, to issue the order
which made it possible to erect, in the National<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cemetery
of Arlington, the beautiful monument to the heroic dead of the South that you
founded today. The event in itself speaks volumes as to the oblivion of
sectionalism. It gives me not only great pleasure and great honor, but it gives
me the greatest satisfaction as a lover of my country, to be present, as
President of the United States, and pronounce upon this occasion the
benediction of all true Americans."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
President was given an ovation, the convention rising in appreciation of his
greeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-50440103151358111422017-01-07T18:07:00.001-08:002017-01-07T18:35:37.930-08:00Huge readership spike of this blog from South KoreaI am getting ready to write Donald Trump asking him not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument. I was reviewing the information I collected in 2009 and also what I have since learned.<br />
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I was looking at the Arlington Confederate Monument Report blog and I noticed that there had been a spike in viewers and so first I went to see where they were from. How surprising to see that the most viewers were from South Korea. It is hard to see on the Google map supplied below but you can see the South Korean readership in the list.<br />
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Japan has recently called home some envoys because they are upset over a statue to memorialize South Korean women who were put into brothels by the Japanese military in World War II.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/06/asia/japan-diplomats-south-korea/">http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/06/asia/japan-diplomats-south-korea/</a><br />
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<a href="http://time.com/4625449/japan-south-korea-comfort-women-statue/">http://time.com/4625449/japan-south-korea-comfort-women-statue/</a><br />
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I think that the move by Japan to retaliate is not well thought out. There are probably in the last week hundreds of millions of people who previously had never heard of the "comfort" women, sex slaves for the Japanese military, who now have learned the history of these sex slaves.<br />
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I also think it was very foolish that it was thought that a treaty agreement could be done to push this historical crime down a memory hole. Did the Japanese government really think this would work?<br />
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Good for those who won't allow this to be pushed down the memory hole. One time in preparation for a short business trip to Korea, I read a 600 page history of Korea. Korea history has good parts, but poor Korea has had some really bad times, such as the Mongol invasion and the Japanese occupation.<br />
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I don't know why the Japanese government isn't just ignoring the statue, perhaps there is a nationalist desire for a conflict.<br />
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As for my South Korean readers, I hope my blog was a help.<br />
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As for the Russian readership, there is an interest in Russia to foment division, like secession, in the United States and I am getting periods of high readership from Russia occasionally for my blogs.<br />
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This is captured from the screen on 1/7/2017 at 8:30 pm roughly EST.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-2524318557951216292016-11-16T15:04:00.000-08:002016-11-16T15:07:00.737-08:00"Breitbart" and the Arlington Confederate MonumentStephen K. Bannon, executive director of "Breitbart," is going to be Donald Trump's chief White House strategist according to some reports.<br />
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"Breitbart" is a publication which appears to be very much on defending Confederate monuments and flags. I am still researching them. Up to now I thought of them as another right wing fringe group and many of them defend the Confederacy or the Lost Cause.<br />
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In 2009 when a group of us wrote President Obama asking him not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument at the annual Confederate event there Ron Maxwell was the speaker.<br />
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"Breitbart" reprinted Ron Maxwell's speech made at the Arlington Confederate Monument in 2009.<br />
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This is the link to the article.<br />
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<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/25/on-the-occasion-of-president-obamas-wreath-for-the-confederate-memorial/">http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/25/on-the-occasion-of-president-obamas-wreath-for-the-confederate-memorial/</a><br />
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In his speech, Maxwell asserts the following:<br />
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I myself am neither a Confederate nor a neo-Confederate, whatever that means. I am simply an American — and that’s enough for me. I belong to no organizations, clubs, round-tables or societies related to the Civil War or indeed to anything else. But I will not be intimidated from speaking at memorials for Confederate or Yankee soldiers – nor silently stand by as others heap insult and scorn on anyone who does. I am no one’s mouth-piece or propagandist. I have no axe to grind or grievance to nurse. I am no more and no less than a free man.</blockquote>
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Really?<br />
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He gave an interview in "Southern Partisan" magazine, Vol. 22 Issue No. 6, (Nov./Dec. 2002)<br />
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He contributed a movie review to "Southern Partisan," March/April 2002, Vol. 22 No. 2.<br />
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This was done after the reputation of "Southern Partisan" was generally known to the public.<br />
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Then I have this review of his anti-Muslim anti-Hispanic article in "Chronicles" magazine.<br />
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<a href="http://hispanicmuslims.com/articles/alamokosovo.html">http://hispanicmuslims.com/articles/alamokosovo.html</a><br />
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His movies are ridiculed by those who have some knowledge of history and Maxwell's movies are in my opinion neo-Confederate propaganda.<br />
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There are some reviews of "Gods and Generals."<br />
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<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gods-and-generals-2003">http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gods-and-generals-2003</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gods_and_generals/">https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gods_and_generals/</a><br />
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More about Ron Maxwell.<br />
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1. Attended the 108th reunion in 2003 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.<br />
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2. Announced as speaker at the Stephen D. Lee Institute meeting in 2007 in "Confederate Veteran" magazine. The Stephen D. Lee Institute is an organization of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.<br />
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3. When Ron Maxwell spoke in 2009 at the Arlington Confederate Monument it was an event for which the Sons of Confederate Veterans was one of the sponsors.<br />
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An article about the Sons of Confederate Veterans.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html">http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html</a><br />
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The fact that his Confederate folderol is published by "Breitbart" says a lot about "Breitbart."<br />
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The Confederacy will be in the White House. We should ask whether the Confederate flag will be flown at the White House.<br />
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Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-49643364301503018112016-11-12T03:56:00.003-08:002016-11-12T03:56:34.259-08:00You can now follow this blog by email. Please note new feature to the right. Please note that to your right you can submit your email and be kept notified of postings to this blog.<br />
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I am implementing this on all my blogs.Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-91662561258309551722016-10-22T09:36:00.001-07:002016-10-22T09:36:26.799-07:00THIS EFFORT IS STILL ACTIVE: Letter to President in 2017. This effort is still active. I decided that a letter to Barack Obama this year would not accomplish much. I have him on record as having continued to send the wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument.<br />
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I will be writing the next president of the United States in 2017 asking that they not send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument on memorial day.<br />
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This year I had to finish a paper and give a presentation on M.E. Bradford who campaigned his entire life against civil rights. I also have decided to redirect my campaign more into social media, more in to video and other active media and print will be more focused on publishing.<br />
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The side bar will be updated to provide more information about the neo-Confederate movement.<br />
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I am thinking of using Change dot Org to do the petition next year.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052175978224069176.post-79966819733211411432015-10-26T16:54:00.000-07:002020-06-10T07:31:47.746-07:002011 Letter to Obama mentioned in article in "The Chronicles of Higher Education" article UPDATE:You can read the article at this link:<br />
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<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/bowdoin-ends-confederate-heritage-award-like-many-still-offered-by-u-s-service-academies/106066">http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/bowdoin-ends-confederate-heritage-award-like-many-still-offered-by-u-s-service-academies/106066</a><br />
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I will be writing Obama in 2016 to ask him to not send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument.<br />
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UPDATE: I didn't write a letter in 2016. I have been focusing on redesigning my campaign against the neo-Confederate movement. I will be writing again in 2017.<br />
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<br />Edward H. Sebestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768790561259522555noreply@blogger.com