Thursday, February 14, 2019

Some stuff and nonsense by the Texas Division Sons of Confederate about "disturbing grave"

UPDATE

I have this post in De-Confederate Dallas about a posting in Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans

https://www.facebook.com/edward.sebesta/posts/10158268078544829

They are deleting the post and reposting the post to break links, so you might want to just go to their Facebook page.

When you bring up facts it seems to upset them. Name calling is a component of their rebuttal.

ORIGINAL POST

One of the issues that the Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans is trying to push that moving the Confederate War Memorial from Pioneer Park is somehow sacriligious because it will disturb graves.

This issue is worth examining to show how much the neo-Confederates like to just make stuff up and get sanctimonious about it.

https://www.facebook.com/TexasSCV/photos/a.1230244337023283/2074016415979400

https://www.facebook.com/TexasSCV/photos/a.1230244337023283/2074125912635117

https://www.facebook.com/TexasSCV/photos/a.1230244337023283/2074126705968371

The fact is when it was moved to Pioneer Park from its old location to make way for a highway there were no complaints about possibly disturbing graves.

The monument is actually made of individual units which can be detached and moved. The only thing that will endup being disturbed is the members of the SCV and they seem to have been already disturbed.

Further a Dallas Morning News article from 1966 shows how hypocritical the Sons of Confederate Veterans are being. It is titled, "Park Board Considers Relocation of Graves," July 6, 1966, page 12.

From the article:
"The board discussed two requests at the meeting.

One was for reloca[t]ing remains of more than 100 Confederate war veterans. ..."
Who was making this request? From the article.
"John B. Hood Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, requested that the city relocate the remains of Confederate soldiers now buried in the Confederate Cemetery on Electra Street, just off Pine Street in South Dallas. 
The organization wants them placed in an area adjacent to the Confederate monument in Pioneer Park, next to Dallas Memorial  Auditorium. .... The group also has asked the city to change the name of  Pioneer Park to Confederate and Pioneer Park or  Confederate-Pioneer Park." 
The reason the Hood Camp gave for why they wanted these 100 plus Confederate soldiers to be dug up was that the new location would be more central in Dallas and seen by more people.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans seemed not to worry then about disturbing a grave even to the point of digging up and reburying the Confederate Veterans.

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