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A View From A Pew

Let’s Be Honest, If Her Name Had Been Shaquita...

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If You Really Want To Protest Monuments, Statues Or Symbols To The Confederacy Let’s Have A Discussion About General Henry L. Benning The Voice Of The Community

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The Truth About Our Confederate Statue

The Columbus Black History Museum & Archives Responds Page 7

The Courier Career Woman Of The Week

Evone Taylor of Taylor Funeral Home...Serving Grieving Families Page 12

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THURSDAY August 31, 2017

At-Large Councilor Judy Thomas Responds

In our last issue the street committee reported that our At-Large representative Judy Thomas, was the lone dissenting vote against replacing bridges in our communities specifically the ones located on Decatur Street and Melrose Drive. Although the vote passed the street committee questioned her explanation for not voting for the bridge replacement. Her argument was she was not in favor of spending any money on anything until we get the property tax situation figured out. Councilor Thomas took issue with our assessment of her vote and reached out to us. Here is her response.

Mr. Hailes I just read the current issue of the Courier, and wanted to clarify what my vote on building some bridges had to do with the tax Assessor's situation.

Council was told that, because of the late mailing of tax notices, the city would be about three or four months behind schedule in collecting property tax, that this would put a strain on our ability to pay our bills to the point that we may have to borrow money, and that we will postpone all capital projects spending until January. The proposal that the City Manager brought to us did not meet that timeline, and so I voted not to approve the expenditure at this time. It had absolutely nothing to do with the location of the bridges.

- Judy Thomas

Has Mayor Teresa Abandoned The Hispanic Community?

You hear it all the time from citizens when it comes to politicians, “They only are concerned with us when they need our vote”. Well it appears the Hispanic community is finally seeing it first hand.

When you ask the Hispanic community, their sentiment is, now that mayor Teresa Tomlinson is in her last term and will no longer need their vote, at least for the time being, it appears she is not that concerned about supporting them. According to the street commit-

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tee, as the Tri-City Latino Festival is poised to celebrate their 5th annual event that recognizes the diversity, culture, and contributions of the Hispanic community, the festival committee members are asking themselves, “What did we do wrong?” Committee members are bewildered that mayor Tomlinson has chosen to not support the festival financially. In past years she would obtain a $1000 contribution from the Community Foundation. This year nothing. In addition they were recently informed that she will not be in attendance this year. Although the committee feels abandoned, they are not totally surprised. The community began to see her true colors when the mayor didn’t have the decency to attend the memorial service for local Hispanic businessman “Lefty” Encarnacion one of her staunches supporters prior to his death. So much for gone but not forgotten.

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A VIEW FROM A PEW

THURSDAY AUGUST 31, 2017

Let’s Be Honest, If Her Name Had Been Shaquita...

Conference register Black voters. Not long after she arrived she was killed by the Ku Klux Klan.

She was the first white female protester to die in the civil rights movement and when the nation saw the live news coverage of her murder by the Klan it changed the conversation about civil rights in the country and arguably, as a result, helped speed up passing of the Voting Rights Act. According to her family and friends Heather attended the rally because she believed in standing up for those she felt were not being heard.

She was against the hate, bigotry and racism that were being espoused by the neo-Nazis, altright and racist that were in attendance that weekend.

To coin the catchphrase made famous by the late Joan Rivers, “Can we talk?

Let’s be honest with one another, four weeks ago no one in Columbus, Georgia, black or white was talking about or concerned with removing the Confederate Memorial monument.

I feel just as comfortable stating that very few people, black or white, who have driven down Broadway even noticed the monument was there let alone what it represented.

I will even venture one step further to say if the young lady who lost her life in Charlottesville, Virginia that fate-

ful day on Saturday August 12, 2017 was named Shaquita, we wouldn’t be having this conversation right now. Don’t get me wrong, I believe people would be expressing their anger and there may be some protest but I don’t believe, in my heart of hearts there would be this resurging debate about the removal of Confederate statues, monuments or symbols. As I always say, however, it’s never a problem until it affects White folks.

Do you honestly believe if the victim had been a black female or Marcus, the young black male that was also hit by that Dodge charger, there would be the same national outrage? Do you honestly believe if the protest-

ers who were armed with guns and bats, dressed in camouflaged clothing, wearing bulletproof vests and helmets that were fighting the police were black they would not have been fired upon? Please we all know there would have been a whole lot of “sad singing and flower bringing” going on in black households and black churches right now.

For those of you familiar with the history of the civil rights movement the death of Heather Heyer is reminiscent of Viola Liuzzo, the housewife and mother of five from Michigan who, in March 1965, traveled to Alabama to help Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership

Perhaps, as with Viola Liuzzo, the senseless and untimely death of Heather Heyer will force our nation to talk seriously about race relations and the negative connotations constant reminders of the Confederacy have on our local communities.

Speaking for myself, the issue comes down to this simple proposition: the government should not honor people whose principal claim to fame is that they fought a bloody war in defense of the evil institution of slavery. Ultimately, the case for removing Confederate monuments is the same as the case for removing the Confederate flag from public spaces of honor.

For those who want us to believe that the Civil War was not about slavery it is obvious they don’t know their history.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis, in his own words stated in 1861 that the cause of

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his state’s secession was that “she had heard proclaimed the theory that all men are created free and equal, and this made the basis of an attack upon her social institutions; and the sacred Declaration of Independence has been invoked to maintain the position of the equality of the races.”

His vice president, Alexander Stephens avowed that “slavery . . . was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution” and that protecting it was the “cornerstone” of the new Confederate government.

Still not convinced? Consider the official statements of the southern states outlining their reasons for secession. Here is Mississippi’s: Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery– the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth…. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation.

There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union…

Contrary to what some say removing Confederate monuments does not require any “whitewashing” of history. I am not suggesting that we should erase the Confederacy and its leaders from the historical record. We should certainly remember them and continue to study their history. We just should not honor them.

Wane A. Hailes

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If You Really Want To Protest Monuments, Statues Or Symbols To The Confederacy Let’s Have A Discussion About General Henry L. Benning Wane A. Hailes Special To The Courier

As long as we are starting a dialogue about confederate symbols it’s time that we have a serious discussion about renaming the 10 military bases that are named after Confederate figures: Fort Lee, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Bragg, Fort Polk, Fort Pickett, Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Rucker, Camp Beuregard and specifically our very own Fort Benning.

There is no doubt in my mind that very few of us, Black, White or Hispanic know the history or background of General Henry L. Benning, the Confederate soldier of which the United States Army installation Fort Benning is named after.

Henry L. Benning, who became one of Robert E. Lee’s more effective subordinates, was a lawyer, legislator, judge, and a Confederate General during the American Civil War. He owned 97 slaves.

As a Muscogee County delegate to the secession convention, Henry L. Benning, for whom Fort Benning is named, was on the committee that introduced a bill calling for Georgia to withdraw from the United States. The convention voted on January 19, 1861 to secede. The vote was 208 for secession, 89 against.

After Georgia seceded from the Union, Benning was sent as Georgia's representative to Virginia, which was still debating the secession question. There, he gave a speech before the Virginia secession convention, arguing that separation from the Union was the only way to preserve slavery.

1st two sentences of the Georgia Declaration of Secession -Approved, Tuesday, January 29, 1861-The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slaveholding confederate

....If things are allowed to go on as they are, it is certain that slavery is to be abolished. By the time the north shall have attained the power, the black race will be in a large majority, and then we will have black governors, black legislatures, black juries, black everything. Is it to be supposed that the white race will stand for that? It is not a supposable case. ... war will break out everywhere like hidden fire from the earth, and it is probable that the white race, being superior in every respect, may push the other back. ... we will be overpowered and our men will be compelled to wander like vagabonds all over the earth; and as for our women, the horrors of their state we cannot contemplate in imagination. That is the fate which abolition will bring upon the white race. ... We will be completely exterminated, and the land will be left in the possession of the blacks, and then it will go back to a wilderness and become another Africa...

Suppose they elevated Charles Sumner to the presidency?

Suppose they elevated Fred Douglass, your escaped slave, to the presidency? What would be your position in such an event? I say give me pestilence and famine sooner than that.

— Henry Lewis Benning Speech to the Virginia Convention, February 18, 1861

States with reference to the subject of African slavery.

one of his sons was mortally wounded during the Civil War.

On September 12, 1839, Benning married Mary Howard Jones of Columbus.

The couple had ten children; five daughters would survive Benning, and

Following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Benning took an active

Benning was born on a plantation in Columbia County, Georgia, the son of Pleasant Moon and Malinda Meriwether White Benning, the third of eleven children. He attended Franklin College (now the University of Georgia), graduating in 1834. While a student, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society. After college, he moved to Columbus, Georgia, which would be his home for the rest of his life. He was admitted to the bar at age 21.

Benning was active in Southern politics and an ardent secessionist, bitterly opposing abolition or emancipation of slaves. In 1851 he was nominated for the U.S. Congress as a Southern rights Democrat, but was not elected.

In 1853 he was elected an associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, where he was noted for an opinion that held that a state supreme court is not bound by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on constitutional questions, but that the two courts must be held to be "coordinate and co-equal".

part in the state convention that voted to secede from the Union, representing Muscogee County. In March 1861, the Southern states that had seceded appointed special commissioners to travel to those other slaveholding Southern states that had yet to secede. Benning served as the Commissioner from Georgia to the Virginia Secession Convention, trying to persuade Virginia politicians to vote to join Georgia in seceding from the Union.

Although he was considered for a cabinet position in the government of the newly established Confederate States of America, he chose to join the army instead and became the colonel of the 17th Georgia Infantry, a regiment he raised himself in Columbus on August 29, 1861. The regiment became part of Toombs's Brigade in the Right Wing of the Army of Northern Virginia, under Gen. Robert E. Lee.

As a newly minted army officer, Benning immediately ran into political difficulty. He questioned the legality of the Confederate government's Conscription Act and spoke against it openly as a violation of states' rights.

Refusing to obey certain orders, he came close to being court-martialed, but influence from his friend, Col. T.R.R. Cobb, defused the situation. The first significant action he saw was at the Second Battle of Bull Run in August

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1862. At the Battle of Antietam, Benning's brigade was a crucial part in the defense of the Confederate right flank, guarding "Burnside's Bridge" across Antietam Creek all morning against repeated Union assaults. His courage in battle was no longer questioned by his superiors, and he became known as the "Old Rock" to his men.

He was promoted to brigadier general on April 23, 1863, with date of rank of January 17, 1863. For most of the rest of the war, Benning continued as a brigade no longer questioned by his superiors, and he became known as the "Old Rock" to his men. He was promoted to brigadier general on April 23, 1863, with date of rank of January 17, 1863. For most of the rest of the war, Benning continued as a brigade commander ("Benning's Brigade") in the division of the aggressive John Bell Hood of Texas. He missed the Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville because his brigade was stationed in southern Virginia along with the rest of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's First Corps. However, they returned for active combat in the Battle of Gettysburg. There, on July 2, 1863, Benning led his brigade in a furious assault against the Union position in the Devil's Den, driving out the defenders at no small cost to themselves.

That September, Longstreet's Corps was sent west to assist Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee. On the second day of the bloody Battle of Chickamauga, Benning participated in Longstreet's massive charge against a gap in the Union line, even as his horse was shot out from under him. He mounted another horse, which was also killed.

Finally, he cut loose a horse from a nearby artillery battery and rode into combat bareback. During a surprise Union counterattack against his brigade, many of his men fled a n d B e n n i n g r a n o ff t o Longstreet to report the calamity. Riding an old artillery horse and whipping it with a piece of rope, Longstreet wrote after the war that Benning was "Greatly excited and the very picture of despair." Benning said, "General, I am ruined; my brigade was suddenly attacked and every man killed; not one is to be found. Please give me orders where I can

do some fighting." Longstreet responded impassively, "Nonsense, General, you are not so badly hurt. Look about you. I know you will find at least one man, and with him on his feet report your brigade to me, and you two shall have a place in the fighting line."

Longstreet's reply humiliated Benning, but instilled enough determination in him to return to find his brigade and prevail in the battle.

Benning's Brigade fought at the Battle of Wauhatchie outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, and joined Longstreet's Corps in its unsuccessful Knoxville Campaign in late 1863. Returning to Virginia, the brigade fought against Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the 1864 Overland Campaign, where Benning was severely wounded in the left shoulder during the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5. This wound kept him out of the remainder of the campaign and much of the subsequent Siege of Petersburg, but he was able to return in time for the waning days of that lengthy campaign. His brigade withstood strong Union assaults against its entrenchments, but was forced to withdraw along with the rest of Lee's army in the retreat to Appomattox Court House in early April 1865. Benning, heartbroken, was one of the final officers to lead his men to the surrender ceremony.

If we knew then what we know now

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Confederate General Henry L. Benning April 2, 1814 - July 10, 1875

I would like to believe those charged with naming our army base and the nine others would be able to find ten soldiers whose exemplary service not only upheld our most important values, but was actually performed in the defense of the United states.

Changing the names would not mean that we can’t still respect the services of those Confederate leaders; nor

does it mean we are imposing our notion of morality on people of a longdistant era. What it does mean is that now we have a better understanding of our history, not Black History, not White history but America’s history we are upholding our own convictions.

It’s time to rename them especially given that it is an insult to Black soldiers who serve our country and are stationed at those bases.

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The Facts About Our Confederate Statue

By Johnnie Warner Special To The Courier

Formed March 10, 1865, the Memorial Association, formerly known as the Ladies Soldiers’’ Aid Society, were fervent Confederates. They were the founders of the annual Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866. Similar to the Roman Catholic custom of decorating graves on All Saints Day, the Ladies Soldiers’ Aid Society began a custom of decorating Confederate soldiers’ graves with flowers. The annual decorating of graves on Confederate Memorial Day had extended to parades, festivals, and an annual address. Around the mid 1870’s, the Memorial Association had decided to erect a monument on Broad Street/Broadway to the Confederate soldiers of Columbus, Georgia. The monument was placed in “Salisbury Park” between Seventh and Eighth Streets because of greener grass, larger trees, and funding raised by the ladies of the Memorial Association living between Seventh and Eighth Streets.

As our local historian on African American history we asked Mr. Warner to provide a historical perspective and opinion regarding the removal of the Confederate Memorial monument located on Broadway in Columbus, Georgia.

Why are White citizens of Columbus, Georgia adamant about not removing the Confederate Memorial Monument?

Historical monuments are symbols inspiring virtues of loyalty, discipline, responsibilities, and a feeling that you should respect yourself and deserve to be respected by other people because of your ancestor’s accomplishments.

Southern White history is rooted from the Civil War. Before the Civil War, many Southern Whites had no history to inspire them. Many Europeans came to the New Colonies from England as convicted criminals and had to serve as indentured servants (temporary slaves). The average Confederate enlisted soldier was 25 years old, poor, and uneducated. The leaders of the Confederacy had easily manipulated them to believe that the Civil War was about States Rights.

The average Confederate soldier did not own slaves, so it would have been virtually impossible to have him fight for slavery.

Erected by the ladies of the Memorial Association in 1879, the Columbus, Georgia Confederate Memorial Monument was dedicated and gave honor to the Columbus Confederate soldiers and those Confederate soldiers who died in the Columbus Confederate Hospitals. Towering several feet at a cost of $4,500, the white marble monument was placed in “Salisbury Park” on Broadway/Broad Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets.

Granite steps were added for $500 in 1881 to increase the height.

It was the pride of the lower residents of Broad Street/Broadway. Many of the lower residents of Broad Street/Broadway were descendants of the pioneers of Columbus, Georgia: the Peabody’s, Schell’s, Josephs, Wells, Torbett’s, Battles, and Wheats.

On Confederate Memorial Day local citizens and their children with wreaths of cedar and evergreen decorated the Confederate Memorial Monument. The parade had begun with a salute fired next to the Confederate Memorial Monument.

It was headed by the Marshal of the Day, followed by the ladies of the Memorial Association in carriages, military companies, and band marching to the Springer Opera House for the annual address.

According to the (1832-1864) Muscogee County Tax records, most of the pioneer families owned slaves.

Salisbury Park was named for Colonel William Salisbury (1830-1878). His home formerly faced the park. Colonel William Salisbury was a Confederate soldier, editor, banker, and a distinguished citizen of Columbus, Georgia.

He served with the Georgia Grays,

Fifth Georgia Regiment of the Confederate Army from Columbus, Georgia. As owner and publisher of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, he was slain because of an editorial he published in his paper. His funeral procession was one of the largest in Columbus history. More than 5,000 people extended from his home to Linwood Cemetery.

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C OURIER C AREER W OMAN O F T HE W EEK Evone Taylor...Taylor Funeral Home Search Program (ETS).

During my tenure at CVCC, I was actively involved by serving on many boards and committees and passionately working as an advocate for the support staff for many years by serving as the President of CVCC Educational Support Personnel Organization (ESPO).

After a period time, I realized the longer I waited I probably would not further my education. So I decided to take another step, therefore, I enrolled in Troy University – Phenix City Campus as a full time student where I received a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice.

I continued to work and at this time my mother’s health was declining. With a desire and a passion to go even further, while working and caring for my mother, I enrolled in the Master’s program at Troy University as a part time student and received a Master’s Degree in Community Counseling.

“O taste and see that the Lord is good.”

I was caring for my mother, working fulltime at CVCC, enrolled as a part time student at Troy, working part time at Taylor Funeral Home, nobody but God !

I come from a poor family.

We didn’t’ have much but God provided.

“O taste and see that the Lord is good.”

Psalm 34:8

I was born in Columbus, Georgia and I am the youngest of seven children born to the parents of the late George Taylor and the late Rosie Bell Williams Taylor. My dad died when I was three years old, leaving my mother to raise six children, one sibling died at birth.

I am the product of a single parent home and am known to many as “Baby Sister”. I was reared in Smiths, Alabama where I currently reside. My mother did not work.

The only source of income was my daddy’s social security that we received monthly. I come from a poor family. We didn’t’ have much but God provided.

At an early age I accepted Christ and joined Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church located in Smiths, Alabama under the pastorage and leadership of the late Rev. Dr. J. H. Flakes, Jr. where I serve faithfully in many capacities.

I am a first generation college graduate. After graduating from Smiths Station High School in Smiths, Alabama, I enrolled at Chattahoochee Valley Community College (CVCC) in Phenix City, Alabama where I graduated with an Associate’s Degree in General Education.

Upon graduating from CVCC, God blessed me with employment at CVCC in the Microcomputer Information System (MIS) Department.

While employed at CVCC, I not only worked in the MIS Department but also in the Business Office and with the Educational Talent

Everything has a season and so when it was my season to make a career change, I retired from the A l a b a m a Department of Postsecondary Education after serving 25 years at Chattahoochee Valley Community College and joined the Taylor Team full time.

During my employment at CVCC, I also worked partt i m e a t Ta y l o r Funeral Home in the evenings and on weekends.

When Ta y l o r Funeral Home opened in 1991, we could not afford to

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employ anyone, so my nephew, myself, my mom, my sister and other relatives and family friends worked the business until such time as we could pay employees – one at the time. Nobody, But God !

Today, I am a proud member of The Taylor Team where I assist families in making funeral arrangements, direct funerals and a grief support facilitator.

And I thank God for giving Taylor Funeral Home the opportunity and privilege to serve this area by providing families a service complete in every detail and faultlessly executed in honor of a life that can henceforth be but a fond memory. We offer the highest quality in professional services, facilities and equipment. Nobody, but God !

In the words of my late mother, Rosie Bell Williams Taylor, “I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me.”

And in the words of my late pastor, Rev. Dr. J. H. Flakes, Jr., “Conceive It, Believe It, Achieve It”.

I come from a poor family.

We didn’t’ have much but God provided

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2017 Tri-City Latino Festival Beauty Pageant And The Winner Is... Jennifer Lopez

Little Miss Tri-City Latino Pageant Contestants

2017 Tri-City Latino Festival Pageant

2017 Queen Yesenia Ortiz 1st runner up Liliana Santos

2017 Queen Jennifer Lopez 2016 Queen Romy Almanza 2017 Little Miss Tri-City Latino Queen Yesenia Ortiz

2017 Tri-City Latino Festival Beauty Pageant Queen

Jennifer Lopez

The 2017 Tri-City Latino Festival 5th annual Beauty Pageant was held Saturday August 26, 2017 at the Bridge Church. Romy Almanza the 2016 Tri=City Latino Festival Queen gave up her crown as Jennifer Lopez was crowned the 2017 Queen. Ariana Olivera

was the 1st runner up, Mercedes Manriquez was 2nd runner up and Jessica Vicente was the 3rd runner up. Yesenia Ortiz was crowned the 2017 Little Miss Tri-City Latino festival winner. 1st runner up was Liliana Santos

The Pageant Judges Shelly Cape, Greg Hudgison, Cristina Ayala

Past Tri-City Pageant Queens

2015 Jereline Melendez 2016 Romy Almanza 2013 Tanamai Ramos Marsh

The Queen And Her Court

2017 Queen Jennifer Lopez, 1rst Runner up Ariana Olivera, 2nd Runner up Mercedes Manriquez, 3rd runner up jessica Vicente

The Pageant Committee Evelyn Mimi Woodson, Beatrice Casiano, Elica Ojeda, Romy Almanza, Jessica Walker committee member Tito Aron not pictured

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Los padres que tratan con un bebé inquieto –especialmente uno que ha sido recientemente alimentado, cambiado y amado– están ansiosos por encontrar maneras de calmarlos.

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2017 Tri-City Latino Beauty Pageant And The Winner Is Our Very Own JLo...Jennifer Lopez