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TexasTowelie

(111,288 posts)
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 04:07 AM Mar 2021

A Texas Agency is Defending the Confederacy

In 1908, the Texas chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy built a 15-bedroom mansion in Austin’s leafy Hyde Park neighborhood, a mile north of the University of Texas. Intended to house elderly wives and widows of Confederate veterans, the Confederate Woman’s Home, like similar facilities in other southern states, was part of the Daughters’ mission to create “living monuments” to the Confederacy, an effort that also involved erecting hundreds of Confederate memorials across the South in the early decades of the 20th century.

The Confederate Woman’s Home still sits at 3710 Cedar Street, and last summer demonstrators enraged by the murder of George Floyd convened at its doorstep. One protester covered the site’s state historical marker with a sign that read, in part, “the glorification of a white supremacist group is an insult to our BIPOC neighbors.” The building’s current owner, AGE of Central Texas, a nonprofit that provides education to caregivers and the elderly, appeared to get the message. On June 23 it covered the marker with a black plastic bag and attached a notice declaring the organization’s commitment to equal rights.

This gesture of solidarity ignited a battle—over the status of Confederate markers and monuments, over local control, and over private property rights—that has played out over the past year in virtual meetings of the Texas Historical Commission, the state agency charged with historic preservation. In response to this incident and other efforts to remove Confederate memorials across the state, the commission has strengthened protections for Texas historical markers and enacted a new rule requiring a majority vote of the 15-person commission before a state antiquities landmark can be “retired.”

Critics charge that such moves are intended to make it more difficult to remove Confederate memorials. The Confederate Woman’s Home marker was approved by the Texas Historical Commission in 2012 and erected with permission from AGE. This summer, AGE requested its removal, which the commission unanimously denied at its October meeting; a request by the organization to rescind the building’s landmark status is currently under review. At the same meeting, the commission also rejected a request by the mayor of Lancaster, a small town south of Dallas, to remove a historical marker for a former Confederate arms factory.

Read more: https://www.texasobserver.org/a-texas-agency-is-defending-the-confederacy/

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A Texas Agency is Defending the Confederacy (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP
What the south did was treason. The Jungle 1 Mar 2021 #1
They didn't get it then OldBaldy1701E Mar 2021 #2
Lincoln should have hung Lee at Appomattox courthouse. The Jungle 1 Mar 2021 #4
That's only true for some of us. 2naSalit Mar 2021 #3
aka hanging on to threads of bullshit to justify their miserable lives. nt Javaman Mar 2021 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #6
arggh LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #7

OldBaldy1701E

(4,968 posts)
2. They didn't get it then
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 08:09 AM
Mar 2021

And they won't get it now. Just go down there with some federal troops and arrest the entire lot of them for treason. See if they are so keen on their attempt at posing as 'heritage' lovers then...

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
4. Lincoln should have hung Lee at Appomattox courthouse.
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 09:39 AM
Mar 2021

There were plenty of trees. Not hanging Lee and trying to appease the south was a huge mistake.
We have fought a cold civil war ever since. Davis should have also been hung. Many should have been dumped in jail for life.
Appeasement was a failure.

It is absolutely crazy that the south still thinks it just fine to celebrate the treason that caused 620,000 American deaths.

The confederate flag is a death shroud and should be banned by law. America is done appeasing the south.

2naSalit

(86,040 posts)
3. That's only true for some of us.
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 08:16 AM
Mar 2021

I find that some of America's great national pastimes are bigotry and racism, been that way for centuries. When that tradition is threatened by the rest of us, the bigots get nasty and violent. Seems to be a constant in this country.

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