The Racism of Admiral Raphael Semmes

The local Sons of Confederate Veterans camp is named after Admiral Raphael Semms.

Raphael Semmes from his diaries is reveal to be quite the racist and looks down on Brazilians because they have mixed racial ancestry.

The above is a link to pages about Semmes racism in the book, "The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade," by Gerald Horne. Scroll down a bit.

Start at page 191 and read through to the beginning of page 192.  At the end of page 190 and going into page 191 you can read how Semmes erected a tombstone, with the words, "in memoriam of Abraham Lincoln who died of nigger on the brain."

Mobile(ize) Resistance Against Neo-Confederacy Background information and resources. Minor update.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) are having their 2019 Reunion in Mobile, Alabama, July 10-13, 2019.

They have a web page for the reunion here:

https://www.scvsemmes.org/2019-scv-reunion.html

Very likely local government entities provided incentives to bring the Sons of Confederate Veterans to Mobile, Alabama. Local camps of the SCV do bidding to host the SCV national reunion. The hotel may have also given incentives to get the SCV to have the convention at their hotel.

In this case it is the Renaissance Riverview Hotel and the convention itself will be at the Mobile Convention Center located on Water Street at the Mobile River.

Our plan is to have peaceful protests, counter-events of an educational nature which will inform the public and people in Mobile, Alabama what the Sons of Confederate Veterans is really about.

This blog will be updated with information about our efforts and we will provide some information about Alabama and Mobile, Alabama neo-Confederacy.

Incidentally you can read about the SCV at Black Commentator.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html

This was written in 2013. There is a lot more stuff since then and updated information will be provided.

Additionally, we will be writing the local churches asking them not to host the SCV. Last time the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception let the cathedral for a Confederate event in 2007.

You can see photos of Confederate flags flying in the cathedral at these links.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140601142935/http://www.scvsemmes.org/uploads/3/1/7/8/3178401/229119_orig.jpg

and

https://web.archive.org/web/20140601142935/http://www.scvsemmes.org/uploads/3/1/7/8/3178401/6386330_orig.jpg

Whoever took these pictures pulled them off the internet and only these Archive.org pictures remain.

The webpage showing all the pictures and describing the event is also archived by the Internet Archive. You can see the other pictures at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130907225729/http://www.scvsemmes.org/past-activities.html

There will be a Facebook Page for the counter effort as well as a Facebook Event. However, make sure you book mark this page incase Facebook takes down our pages. They have so far pulled down one anti-Confederate event page and refused to give an explanation.

FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/295303354512827/

Who is Ed Sebesta? My curriculum vitae is here:

http://templeofdemocracy.com/curriculum-vitae.html

I am the co-editor of two university press books, author of peer-reviewed academic articles, last one at a journal published at Cambridge Univ. I have had several articles published at Black Commentator.

I was awarded the Spirit of Freedom medal by the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C.

For useful information to combate neo-Confederate mythology I suggest my curriculum vitae for information and the following web page. It is the material that couldn't fit into the book, "The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader," which documents how it is about white supremacy.

http://confederateneoconfederatereader.com/