Latest CofCC LTE over Orangeburg monument

CofCC Board Member Kyle Roger got a second letter to the editor published in the Orangeburg, SC newspaper

LTE Published in Orangeburg Times and Democrat…

T&D Staff Writer Gene Zaleski wrote about me in his March 21 and March 29 articles concerning the Confederate monument at John C. Calhoun and Russell Street. Some of his information is incorrect.

Kevin Gantt, S.C. Department of Transportation project manager for the proposed improvement plan, says the Lower Savannah Council of Governments picked the intersection. The proposed project was then approved by Orangeburg City Council. The March 21st article implies that SCDOT picked the site. SCDOT only drew up the plans for the proposed project that was sent to them.

The story misrepresents the comments I made. I told the reporter that I was not familiar with the Orangeburg Historical Society and could only speculate on its motives.

I also never alleged an NAACP conspiracy. I simply pointed out that the LSCOG chairwoman was an NAACP member. Bernard Haire, mayor pro tempore of Orangeburg City Council, is a major NAACP supporter. The NAACP has waged a 20-year campaign against Confederate monuments and the Maurice Bessinger BBQ chain. Factor in that SCDOT says there are only 10 accidents a year at the intersection and it does not even have a stop sign yet. It seems extremely likely that the intersection was picked because of political and racial bias, not safety concerns.

The reporter and the newspapers also appear completely unaware that South Carolina state law prevents any government entity from altering the monument without the approval of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter that holds the deed to the site.

CofCC activism pays off in Orangeburg County

A letter to the editor from a CofCC member caused a Orangeburg County Council member to go on the defensive. Note: She claims the committee she chairs did not pick the site. According to the SCDOT project manager, her committee did pick the site. The SCDOT had nothing to do with selecting the site, their job was just to draw up plans.

From Orangeburg Times & Democrat…

A letter to the editor insinuating the NAACP is behind planned intersection improvements near Edisto Memorial Gardens is “full of lies,” Orangeburg County Councilwoman Janie Cooper says.

“The NAACP knew nothing about it,” Cooper said during council’s Monday night meeting.

The S.C. Department of Transportation wants to change the intersection of John C. Calhoun Drive and Russell Street to add a full stop. The department says the change will make the intersection safer by removing the need for Russell Street traffic to merge onto John C. Calhoun Drive at an angle.

The project has drawn the opposition of some who say it would lead to the removal of a Confederate monument marking where Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman crossed the Edisto River.

Speaking during council’s Monday meeting, Orangeburg resident Abe Salama brought up the March 11 letter to the editor submitted by Kyle Rogers of Summerville. Rogers says he’s a national board member of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

Cooper is chairman of the Lower Savannah Council of Governments board of directors, the agency responsible for funding the project. Rogers noted that Cooper and other members of County Council are members of the NAACP.

Cooper said she is a member, and “I am sure that if you are the color of black you will join the NAACP for what it stands for.”

NAACP linked to effort to bulldoze monument

From Examiner.com…

A proposed construction project at the corner John C. Calhoun Drive and Russell Street in Orangeburg has put a Confederate monument and a Maurice Bessingers BBQ in danger.

The project has many people crying foul. Both of the properties in danger are the targets of a twenty year old campaign by the NAACP and other black racial groups to eradicate symbols of the Confederacy. More recently the NAACP has expanded their efforts and now opposes Confederate symbols in cemeteries and even museums.

The selection of the intersection is allegedly based on safety concerns. However, the SCDOT says there are only an average of ten rear-end collisions per year at the intersection. This is a very low number. There is also no traffic light at the intersection, only a stop sign. Critics say that a simple traffic light would solve safety concerns. Patrick Hall, a senior transportation planner at the Atlanta Regional Commission says he believes the project is not justified.

Critics are suggesting that the project is a political and racially motivated attack on symbols of the Confederacy. The evidence seems to support this.

City Councilman leading campaign of racial harassment in Summerville, SC.

A lone white woman living in a black neighborhood in Summerville, SC is being racially harassed by bullies. They say they don’t like her Confederate flag and staged a protest in front of her house Saturday. The campaign of harassment is apparently being led by a radical left-wing Summerville, SC city council member, Aaron Brown.

About 35 people, lured with free food, demonstrated in front of a private residence in Summerville, SC. City Council member Aaron Brown led the group wearing an Obama baseball cap.

About 30 people, including some local CofCC members, countered Brown and his mob. They stood in the woman’s yard with Confederate flags.

Once the main group of protesters and their police escort left, several young thugs remained and shouted racial slurs, profanities, and threats of violence. None of which is being reported by the media, who had a large presence.

See article in Charleston Post & Courier.

Confederate Flag Rally & Jeff Davis Birthday Celebration

The CofCC is co-sponsoring a Confederate rally and Jeff Davis birthday commemoration on June 26th at 1:30 PM on the north side of the statehouse in Columbia, SC.

This will mark the ten year anniversary of the so-called “compromise” with the NAACP. The NAACP immediately reneged on their end and now demand a complete removal of all

The South Carolina held marches and rallies all over the state for seven years leading up to the “compromise.” For most of that time, we were the only group that was publicly defending the flag.

There will be speakers, including veterans of the 90′s flag fight.

NAACP pledges to continue boycott against South Carolina.

CofCC.org News Team

The NAACP (National Association of Assailants, Criminals, and Perpetrators) has pledged to continue it’s boycott of South Carolina until the Confederate Battle Flag is removed from the Confederate Soldier statue.

Actually. I have protested the annual NAACP march of the welfare moms in Columbia twice, and listened to their speeches. The speakers have called for the entire Confederate Soldier Statue to be removed, and for any other Confederate-related monuments to be removed. If anyone thinks the NAACP will not find new targets if they get their way, they are sadly mistaken.

Stop rewritting history and removing statues.

By: The Unreconstructed Southerner

(Update: A recent poll by South Carolina’s largest newspaper show that 45% oppose removing or altering the statue. Only 29% are in favor of removing the statue. It should also be noted that in 2000 the NAACP was allowed to design it’s own monument in a failed attempt to appease the anti-white group. The monument designed by the NAACP, is a hideous monstrosity that clashes with all the other monuments. It depicts a fictional version of slavery design to incite black hatred against white people. Today the white mayor of Columbia spoke at the NAACP MLK march to grovel and call for the statue to be altered.)

This past year Southern heritage activists fought back in North Carolina against attempts by the NAACP and the politically correct press to distort events in Wilmington, NC in 1898 that turned violent thanks to a black rabble rouser and his inflammatory newspaper. Now it seems that South Carolina is now facing the forces of historical distortion seeking to rewrite history for their own contemporary benefit. Their target, former Governor Benjamin Tillman (1890-1894) and his statue which stands outside the South Carolina Capitol Dome.

Confederate Flag Yard Signs make news.

CofCC.org News Team

Confederate Flag yard signs attacking anti-Confederate Flag Republican candidates made the news in Greenville. The South Carolina CofCC distributed the signs, 2,000 in all, to locations around South Carolina. A variety of pro-Confederate flag activists have taken part in putting the signs up.

 Read Article.

Thompson flagged in Columbia.

Eight people with Confederate flags protested Fred Thompson in Columbia Wednesday morning, Dec. 5th, over his anti-Confederate flag comments.

Read article from Channel 10 in Columbia.

SC CofCC to strike back on Confederate Flag issue.

CofCC.org News Team

Big News. Most of you know by now that Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson
joined John McCain and Rudy Giuliani on the list of Republican
Presidential Candidates who have attacked the Confederate Flag. If you
have not heard the news, visit http://www.cofcc.org and watch the videos
of the candidates. Romney viciously attacks the flag and Thompson says
it should be removed from public view.

We are going to fight back. We will be getting 2,000 yard signs. These
are the same yard signs you saw for the Dump Beasley campaign and others
in SC, GA, and MS. They will have a Confederate Flag on one side a “BOOT
ROMNEY,” “BOOT THOMPSON,” “BOOT MCCAIN,” or “BOOT GIULIANI” on the other
side. About half will say “BOOT ROMNEY,” and the the other half will be
split between the rest of the candidates.

The signs should be in our hands next Friday (Dec. 7th) and we will begin
distributing them to people around the state.