1936 Johannesburg Empire Guide Arrives from Australia/ Like Fair Park and looks like Fair Park

This is the cover of the booklet. If you were doing a quick glance you might mistake it for Fair Park. Art Deco was used at expositions in the 1930s to make white racist regimes seem modern and of the future.

 There is a tower to send out beams of light like the 1936 Texas Centennial

 Art Deco buildings at the exhibit. The lower one is very similar in style to buildings at Fair Park.

British Imperialism is so superior with their Art Deco building.

They find the famous ruins in Zimbabwe, then called Rhodesia after a British imperialist, very mysterious. Though it is obvious that the people of Zimbabwe in the past build these buildings, they speculate that maybe it is the Queen of Sheba. They find it mysterious because they can't imagine anyone besides white people building these buildings.

The status of the Confederate War Memorial in Pioneer Park, is it ready to go or not.

I went down to get photo documentation of the Confederate War Memorial in Pioneer Park. I heard there was a barricade and also that the monuments were being wrapped. I SO MUCH ENJOYED SEEING THIS.

I want to discuss some issues, but first some pictures of the barricade and monument.

There were some gaps in the wrapping placed around the fence.

So at first glance it looks like they are being wrapped up to go. This has upset the Dallas No. 6 local chapter of the UDC since they have an appeal to the Dallas Plan Commission about this. If they are wrapped up to go, it is an action that assumes that a decision by Dallas Plan Comision is already made.

https://www.facebook.com/dallas6udc/posts/10157069842906310

Also, another development is that the decision by the Dallas Landmark Commission has been appealed at the last moment. This is the article on that appeal.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/04/02/whats-happening-dallas-confederate-war-memorial

Very critically the article mentions that the appeal comes before the Dallas Plan Commission on May 16, 2019. The elections for the Dallas mayor and for the Dallas city council is on May 4th. I don't know when the elected officials are seated. But the Dallas Plan Commission will be voting after the new City Council and Mayor has been elected. The City Plan Commission might just decide to make a decision after the new city council and mayor are sworn into office, or just delay the decision to the new City Plan Commission.

Or it could be that they are just going ahead and voting for the removal. I think that the Dallas powers that be are for the removal.

The wrapping of the monument might be for protection before the final removal or it might just getting ready for removal and the tarps are part of the method that will be used for the removal. I don't know. I tend to think that they are getting prepared for removal and the Dallas Plan Commission decision is a foregone conclusion regardless of what the local neo-Confederates might have to say.

However, I wouldn't conclude that it is a done deal. A lawsuit might be filed. Which would delay removal further. A newly seated mayor and city council might want to make a decision about the removal and review the issue. Though I think that for most newly elected city council members it is something they don't want to have to deal with. And the plan might be that the final decision will be made by outgoing committtes and commissions.

Meanwhile efforts are underway at the state Capitol to pass legislation blocking removal of monuments. With all these delays, and if the state monument bill is passed into law, the monument might be stuck here if the law takes effect before the monument is removed.

I really don't know how much real support there is for a bill to protect Confederate monuments in the Texas state legislatures and whether the Texas governor really would want to sign it, but it is a possibility.

I think the monument is going, but I don't think it is entirely a sure thing. We will need to watch after events develop.

If for some reason the monuments are delayed such that a Texas state bill makes it impossible to remove them, I am going to start a Dallas boycott campaign. It will encourage Dallas to lobby for the bills repeal. It will be an example for other cities elsewhere to not delay such that their Confederate monuments get pinned down. I have already written up a proposal for my professional society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science to boycott cities that refuse to remove their Confederate monuments or have Confederate monuments past 2020.

BUT SEEING THEM WRAPPED UP IS GREAT!

ROBERT E. LEE IS TOTALLY GONE FROM TURTLE CREEK PARK

Years ago after testifying to have the Dallas Southern Memorial Association (DSMA) a reporter wanted to interiew me. So we sat at a table to talk, The members of the Dallas Southern Memorial Association sat at the table next to us. So we moved to another table and they followed to a table next to us with triumphant grins on their faces.

My message to the DSMA today is EAT SHIT!

This was the inscription on one of the benches for the Robert E. Lee monument. CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO SEE THE COMPLETE IMAGE FULL SIZE.

The inscription reads "NO CALUMNY CAN EVER DARKEN HIS FAME FOR HISTORY

Continuing. HAS LIGHTEN UP

Continuing  HIS IMAGE WITH HER EVERLASTING LAMP

These are scenes of the location today.

This is a view from the opposite direction.

It seems that racist garbage isn't going to be celebrated forever.

Of course there is more to be done. I have recently typed up an inventory of what remains to be done in Dallas.

See this other blog focused on Dallas itself. https://dallaslandscape.blogspot.com/

And the Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1983418798539308/

Dallas Indepedent School District has a school named after Sidney Lanier author of a poem defending the Ku Klux Klan

Dallas School District has a school names after Sidney Lanier who is a an author of a poem defending the Ku Klux Klan. He did about 4 attacking Reconstruction. I am organizing my research material for a report on Lanier.

This is the poem. What Lanier is saying is that the Reconstruction policies of the Grant Administration are to blame for antagonizing the South and for the organization of the Ku Klux Klan. In short the attempt to have a multiracial democracy is an unreasonable aggravation causing the Ku Klux Klan to be organized.  Lanier was a white supremacist who used his poetry to fight for white supremacy.

Will be having organizational meeting April 18th at 7:30 pm

We will be having an organizational meeting Thursday, April 18th at 7:30 pm. WILL UPDATE WITH LOCATION SOON.

It will be somewhere along Highway 75 (Central) near a DART light rail station. I will be updating this posting when I fix the location.

Meetings will be 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month.

We will be discussing possible projects and an agenda.

To find background information on Dallas there are these online resouces.

1. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1983418798539308/

2. http://templeofdemocracy.com/dallas.html

The following agenda is by no means complete but I think it is a good start.

UNFINISHED TASKS

1. The replica Arlington House in Oak Lawn built to glorify Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy.

2. Many schools named after Confederates and other white supremacists.

3. Two minor Confederate monuments in Oak Lawn Park.

4. The whole Fair Park is an assemblage of white supremacist art and architecture.

5. Hatton W. Sumners honored at the Red Museum.

6. Many streets named after Confederates, white supremacists, and one after Nathan Bedford Forrest.

7. Exclude Lost Cause jurors from Jury duty.

We need to have regular meetings and plan strategies. The easy victories are done. Now we enter the hard fight against the racialized landscape.