My presentation to the Dallas City Council briefing on 2/6/2019

I kept it short. I wanted them to know that there was a lot more to the Confederate War Memorial than they realize to keep them motivated to get rid of the monument.

20190206 SPEAKING BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL BRIEFING

The Confederate War Memorial is about lynching in two ways in addition to the connection because of the Cabell medallion on the monument.

John H. Reagan glorifies the violence in the overthrow of Reconstruction in his Confederate War Memorial speech as part of a continuing neo-Confederate celebration of violence to maintain white supremacy and plowing the ground for the Ku Klux Klan to take root in Texas and in particular Dallas in the 1920s.

The other speakers assert that the Confederate soldiers and leaders were martyrs for states’ rights, the ideology which would be used to block federal anti-lynching legislation for decades.

This would be the ideology used by that monster, Dallas’ Congressional Representative Hatton W. Sumner, in his campaigns against anti-lynching legislation, he played a leading role in blocking both the Dyer bill of 1922 and the Wagner-Costigan bill in 1937.

Both ideologies expressed at the dedication are behind the threaten mob violence, made by Earl Hurt, Commander of the Texas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, against NAACP Secretary Walter White when he comes to Dallas in 1938 to speak against lynching before the Interracial Commission.

When the U.S. Supreme Court found Hamilton County, Tennessee sheriffs guilty of aiding a lynching, in the only criminal court case tried before the U.S. Supreme Court, W.L. Cabell with the full support of the local United Confederate Veterans sought to have President Taft pardon them.

I hope to have a rough draft of the history of the Confederate War Memorial published this weekend.

If this statue remains it will be a scarecrow warning people to stay away from Dallas.