Sunday Status: George Washington?

     A tiny group of Neo-Confederates called The Alabama Flaggers  demonstrated for secession on the steps of the Alabama Capitol Building Saturday, and were amazed more people didn't show up. The Montgomery Advertiser story quoted one of the organizers criticizing the anti-confederate flag movement of recent weeks:

"The Civil War happened, and there's not anything anybody can do to sweep it under the rug," Mincey-Burton said. "Taking the battle flag down, taking statues of Robert E. Lee down, that's like taking George Washington out of the Revolutionary War. This happened. Face it, and get over it."

      Not to dis the group, but George Washington was fighting FOR the United States against Britain. He is honored for doing so.
     The Confederate Army was fighting against The United States.  They are remembered for doing so.
     
     The story also quotes a James Perry of Macon County:

"Every time Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King broke wind, (the media) reports it, and it's on the front page. There's not a sign down here commemorating the Confederacy, and it was born here."

Lower Dexter Avenue.

At the top of The Capitol Building Steps

With no mention of Booth as Lincoln's killer.

Inside the restored Legislative House Chamber

Feet away from Saturday's secession rally

Cornerstone of Confederate Memorial

The Confederate Monument on Alabama capitol Grounds

Also on Dexter Avenue

Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Capitol Grounds.

On Dexter, feet from The Alabama Capitol Building

...etc.

[Related: University of Texas votes to remove Jefferson David statue.]