Extremism in the Texit movement./ Have largely moved to the Landscape Reparations blog.

 Michelle Renee has done this write up on the Texit movement. 

https://livingbluetx.com/2021/02/beliefs-behind-texit-movement

I have been discussing Texit in this blog over the years and you will find a lot of information in earlier posts. Generally though I have moved to the following blog. 

https://landscapereparations.blogspot.com/2021/01/landscape-reparations-and-deracializing.html

Seems that the Sam Davis Youth Camp will not be meeting at the Boy Scouts of America Camp which is on Bridgeport Lake

https://twitter.com/BudKennedy/status/1276995436012863488

This is Bud Kennedys tweet about the scheduled event and its cancellation.

This is the Facebook posting of the Sam Davis Christian Youth Camp - Texas where they announced they were meeting at the Sid Richardson Scout Ranch at the Longhorn Council facility. This is a BSA local division. 

https://www.facebook.com/SDCYCTexas/posts/10159270206283475

Really no one wants the Confederacy. 

No one. 

AntiNeoConfederate Channel on YouTube.

This is a link to a video on the channel. You can go there and subscribe to the channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wll-kvEcOAY

This is the link to the channel itself.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_TBuNDUeTcx0e2SlYfCYqw

Next show will be on the neo-Confederates pro-slavery ideology and the Kennedy Twins belief that the slave holders should have gotten slavery reparations.

This is the video embedded. The paper that goes with the video has been released. http://templeofdemocracy.com/history-paper-the-triumphalist-white-supremacy-of-fair-park.html

Driving out to Royse, Texas to support the protest Monday night, May 12, 2019.

The people in Royse, Texas have asked for our help. I have been sharing their event to Dallas Facebook groups.

This is the event on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2634188006655825/

Facebook has some videos of what the contraversy is about. A student decided to go to school wearing a Confederate battle flag as a cape.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1983418798539308/permalink/2316017671946084/

This is a group that is not happy with the Confederate flag wearing in the school.
https://www.facebook.com/smashdatopicbreakingnews/videos/kid-runs-through-royse-city-high-school-with-a-confederate-flag-as-a-cape/2357430191152900/

Here are some news articles.

https://thegrio.com/2019/05/03/texas-school-district-confederate-flag-racism-royse-city/

https://www.wfaa.com/video/news/local/parents-demand-action-after-new-videos-reveal-student-parading-around-school-wearing-confederate-flag/287-20323180-58ad-4f39-a00d-3f0f7a996c59

https://www.wfaa.com/video/news/local/parents-demand-action-after-new-videos-reveal-student-parading-around-school-wearing-confederate-flag/287-20323180-58ad-4f39-a00d-3f0f7a996c59

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/royse-city-just-took-a-step-back-100-years-students-parents-want-answers-after-student-wears-confederate-flag-to-school/287-a09ccb63-d36b-4da5-9596-5746c991ff48

The city is named after Garrett Burgess Griffin Royse. He was commonly known as Byrd Royse.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjr15

https://books.google.com/books?id=yaSqQg_gKSoC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=garrett+royse+confederate+%22veteran%22&source=bl&ots=nsX7dV-T6Q&sig=ACfU3U3VkNSxHLsiXNkEyA2mcXM84nk_pw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8hYLUwJfiAhUDjq0KHeQBDNIQ6AEwAXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=garrett%20royse%20confederate%20%22veteran%22&f=false

The baseball team there is named after Confederate Veteran Garrett Burgess Griffin Royse.

https://ballparkdigest.com/2017/05/12/royse-city-griffins-branding-unveiled/

Billboard in Kaufman County near Kemp, Texas is really only visible in media stories about the billboard

There have been multiple stories about a billboard put up in Kaufman County next to Kemp, Texas.

It has gotten some coverage across the state of Texas and national as well as locally in the DFW area.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/texas/article/Texas-billboard-backs-Confederate-heritage-13705747.php

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/article228219704.html

https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/controversial-billboard-in-north-texas

(Note: After photo documenting the billboard I visited the Kaufman County Courthouse. This is my blog about the Confederate Injustice center there. https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2019/03/kaufman-county-confederate-injustice.html#.XJam1pg2qiP)

This is what it looks like next to the South bound lane. The billboard faces south. What you notice is that the bottom billboard is in disrepair. It is abandoned and we will see why with the next picture.

The highway north and south bound lanes in this section are very widely seperated. So this is the view of the billoard headed north. As you can see, unless you knew the billboard was there, you would not likely even notice it, and even if you saw it you would need binoculars to see what the billboard was trying to express.

You would get somewhat closer headed further north along the highway but you would be looking at the billboard sideways and not be able to read it. If you were driving south you would have to be looking for it in your  rearview mirror.

That is likely why the other billboard is in disrepair. There is no need for it since no one would use it.

The billboard only functions in news stories about it.  That hasn't kept the city of Kemp, Texas from wanting it gone. They have passed a resolution against it and pointed out that it violates the use of a graphics of the Mavericks sport team. It is a small town, I drove through it and there aren't a lot of people. They don't have money and I am thinking they are hoping the Mavericks pay for the attorney.

A small town like this often dreams of some business locating a factory or facility there to keep the town from dying and a billboard like this is not a help at all for that.

http://www.fox4news.com/news/kemp-officials-expect-dallas-mavericks-to-take-action-on-controversial-confederate-billboard