LEE-JACKSON DAY EVENT BRINGS 200 TO LEXINGTON, VA

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Some folks just gotta hold on to the past, no matter how bad it makes them look. And yes, White supremacists were there.

One People’s Project

LEXINGTON, VA – Sporting signs recalling slogans of recent popular protests, like “Confederate Lives Matter” and “Je Suis Lee-Jackson”, 200 activists came out to participate in the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ annual rally commemorating Lee-Jackson Day.

League of the South member Jamie Farren, once busted for drug possession while her kids were present, doesn’t seem to have the hang of all this Confederate pride if she’s using the Stars and Bars as a saddle blanket when she sits on it!

According to WDBJ 7, the day honors Confederate Generals Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee, who lived their final years in Lexington. Both men were born near Jan. 17 and the holiday, observed in Virginia since 1889, is traditionally on the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

The Virginia Flaggers participated in the event, as did the white supremacist League of the South. Brad Griffin acknowledged their presence in a comment on his blog Occidental Dissent, saying, “The inclusion of the heritage movement is warranted here because of the overlap,” noting the issue with the mainstream neo-Confederate organization not supporting secession. “Some League members were at the flagging event in Lexington this afternoon.”

Events of the day included a wreath-laying ceremony at the gravesite of “Stonewall” Jackson and a parade through downtown Lexington, and a memorial service at Lexington Presbyterian Church.