Lee - Jackson Day 2020

[Philip Leigh]

My Visit to Washington & Lee University

(January 20, 2020) A month prior to my Saturday presentation in Lexington, Virginia about Defending Confederate Monuments at the Lee-Jackson Day Annual Memorial, I asked Washington & Lee and th…

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[Viper21]

I would also like to point out to anyone following, The Lee-Jackson Day events, will continue. That the Commonwealth is removing Lee Jackson Day as an official state holiday, is irrelevant. This celebration will continue, annually, on the same weekend each January in Lexington.

While it is disappointing what Virginia politicians are doing, we do not need state offices closed, to celebrate the lives of these two great men, who rest eternally in Lexington. Hopefully the weather will be better next year...! Hope to see more of y'all then...!!

 

[Philip Leigh]

A copy of the keynote speech is provided below:

My Confederate Statue Speech

(July 30, 2019) Provided below is the text of my speech a week ago about Confederate statues at the Abbeville Institute summer conference. * * * In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrot…

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[CSA Today]

A copy of the keynote speech is provided below:

My Confederate Statue Speech

(July 30, 2019) Provided below is the text of my speech a week ago about Confederate statues at the Abbeville Institute summer conference. * * * In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrot…

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[Viper21]

A copy of the keynote speech is provided below:

My Confederate Statue Speech

(July 30, 2019) Provided below is the text of my speech a week ago about Confederate statues at the Abbeville Institute summer conference. * * * In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrot…

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For those that were not in attendance, this speech was VERY well received. Lots of questions were asked, & plenty of discussion took place after. For folks that these issues are of importance, it was a weekend full of fantastic speakers. Well informed, articulate, & very good at delivering the messages. It will be difficult to top this years speakers, next year.

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

I've lost track of this thread, having to have some unexpected minor surgery (no worries anyone) that sidelined me. Did any of this get YouTubed?

 

[unionblue]

Cute dog picture in post# 91.

 

[CSA Today]

I've lost track of this thread, having to have some unexpected minor surgery (no worries anyone) that sidelined me. Did any of this get YouTubed?

I hope you are feeling better.

 

[Viper21]

I've lost track of this thread, having to have some unexpected minor surgery (no worries anyone) that sidelined me. Did any of this get YouTubed?

No. Perhaps in the future.

 

[Viper21]

Cute dog picture in post# 91.

That pooch has been in attendance the last few years. Very friendly, & well mannered.

 

[unionblue]

That pooch has been in attendance the last few years. Very friendly, & well mannered.

He looks like a good boy and well-mannered, a plus at any event.

 

[byron ed]

It is a lovely little town, despite some of its less than savory temporary residents.

Explain.

 

[DanSBHawk]

A slightly odd photo from Lexington:

 

[unionblue]

A slightly odd photo from Lexington:
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I like the irony.

 

[Viper21]

A slightly odd photo from Lexington:
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Great photo..! Some good looking fellas in grey..!

 

[uaskme]

A slightly odd photo from Lexington:
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Martin would probably be amazed that people still believed the Civil War was fought over the Negro, if he was still alive. Whitey loved us so much, they fought a War over us?

 

[Andersonh1]

A slightly odd photo from Lexington:
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I doubt the photographer framed the banner with the marchers for this reason, but to me it's a good reminder that commemorations of all these southern heroes, white and black, can peacefully coexist.

 

[byron ed]

Martin would probably be amazed that people still believed the Civil War was fought over the Negro, if he was still alive...

First of all, how shallow to use the phrase "the Civil War was fought over the negro" (as in property) and then (insult to injury) project that many people ever thought that. Rather, the actual thing many people believed and believe yet is that the war was fought over slavery, negro or not. Let's wrap our minds around the difference.

To go by his writings, Martin would not be surprised that people still believed that the war was fought over slavery, as he himself did. He fought against all forms of unjust domination, not just that of the "negro."

...Whitey loved us so much, they fought a War over us?

Lowering this to the level of stage comedian isn't helpful.

 

[DanSBHawk]

I like the irony.

There is a MLK quote that is often repeated, that goes something like "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

MLK was actually paraphrasing an antebellum Massachusetts minister named Theodore Parker, whose grandfather led the militia against the british at the Battle of Lexington. Reverend Parker was an abolitionist, and he wrote this in 1853:

Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.​

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Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Jefferson trembled when he thought of slavery and remembered that God is just. Ere long all America will tremble.​

Both Parker and MLK proved to be right. The arc is definitely bending towards justice. The photo above is interesting because it shows two different competing visions crossing each other in time. One vision that is right and moral becoming mainstream in our country, while the other vision is rightfully diminishing and fading with every generation.

 

[Philip Leigh]

A slightly odd photo from Lexington:
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The photo above [depicting Lexington's Lee-Jackson Day Parade with a banner advertising an MLK Day Parade] is interesting because it shows two different competing visions crossing each other in time. One vision that is right and moral becoming mainstream in our country, while the other vision is rightfully diminishing and fading with every generation.

The former Confederate states have far more MLK memorial streets and avenues than similarly sized Northern states. North Carolina and New Jersey, for example, have comparable populations but the Southern state has twenty-nine MLK streets whereas the Northern one has only eight. Similarly, even though Ohio has four times the population of Mississippi, the Buckeye State has only eight MLK streets whereas the state with the Confederate banner in its flag has sixteen.

BTW, Wisconsin (population 5.8 million) has five MLK streets and boulevards whereas South Carolina (population 5.1 million) with eleven has more than twice as many.