by editor | Jun 17, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The anger after George Floyd’s death is fueling a national movement to topple perceived symbols of racism and oppression, including calls to bring down monuments in rural places like Columbus, Miss., where on Monday county officials voted to keep a monument to...
by editor | Jun 16, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“Can we all just get along?” That was the plea of Rodney King after a Simi Valley jury failed to convict any of the four cops who beat him into submission after a 100-mile-an-hour chase on an LA freeway. King’s plea came after the 1992 LA riots, the...
by editor | Jun 15, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
VIRGINIA: Residents Sue to Stop Lee Statue Removal RICHMOND, VA — Six Monument Avenue residents have filed a lawsuit in hopes of blocking Gov. Ralph Northam’s attempt to remove the Robert E. Lee statue. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Richmond Circuit Court,...
by editor | Jun 11, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
For two months now, most of America has endured a government-imposed lockdown. I hate to use that word — lockdown — as it connotes locking prisoners into their cells during prison disturbances. But it is the word that the government itself uses when referring to its...
by editor | Jun 10, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Civil War historians are apt to recite one well-known fact about the battle of Gettysburg—that despite the immense carnage which blanketed the fields outside of the small Pennsylvania borough, the Civil War’s bloodiest battle surprisingly produced just one civilian...
by editor | Jun 9, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder, the true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called “systemic racism.” Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those...