The time has come for Georgia to wake up. Over the past few years, there has been a concentrated effort, started by the NAACP in 1991, to change history and the way Georgians live and think. To their credit, they have won many battles while the majority of Georgians and Southerners silently sat back and watched. A few examples of Southerners' losses are:

1. While Georgia Slept...........Our 45 year old state flag was changed, dishonoring the Confederate soldiers it was designed to honor.
2. While Georgia Slept...........The battle flag was removed from South Carolina's state house under threat of boycott, and placed at a Confederate Soldier's monument. The boycott continues as the NAACP says they are still offended.
3. While Georgia Slept...........Confederate flags have been removed and banned from display at Confederate soldier's gravesites.
4. While Georgia Slept...........The Southern song and tune "Dixie" has fallen silent, and has been banned from our schools and colleges.
5. While Georgia Slept...........The Confederate battle-flag has been taken out of the hands of Ole Miss Rebel football fans because the football coach said it hurt his recruiting efforts.
6. While Georgia Slept...........T-shirts honoring Southern heroes that include the banner under which they fought has been banned from many schools throughout Georgia.
7. While Georgia Slept...........Employees of some large corporations have been told that vehicles with bumper stickers displaying the battle-flag were not allowed in the company parking lot.
8. While Georgia Slept...........BellSouth has banned any likeness of the Confederate battle-flag from business ads in their yellow pages.
9. While Georgia slept...........The Confederate Naval Museum in Columbus was
   renamed the Civil War Naval Museum.
10. While Georgia slept...........The Confederate Rose was renamed the Cherokee-Rose.
11. While Georgia slept...........Under pressure from corporate sponsors the
    Confederate Air Force was renamed. It's now the Memorial Air Force.
12. While Georgia slept...........The University of Georgia's "Dixie Redcoat Band" no longer plays "Dixie" and they are no longer called the "Dixie Redcoat Band".
13. While Georgia slept...........Former Texas Governor George W. Bush appeased the NAACP by removing a Confederate plaque from the Texas Supreme Court building which had been built from funds set aside for Texas Confederate Veterans. The plaque was placed there in the early 1900's to honor the Confederate soldiers who died defending Texas.
14. While Georgia slept............The names of streets, bridges, and buildings bearing the names of Confederate and Revolutionary War heroes are being renamed because the NAACP says you should be offended.
15. While Georgia slept.............At Vanderbilt University, a dormitory known as Confederate Hall, which was in large part built with funds from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, is undergoing a name change to Memorial Hall.
16. While Georgia slept............The word Dixie is being removed from the "Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference". This is an eight member conference of colleges in the North Carolina Virginia area.
17. While Georgia slept............Dixie Outfitters booths have been kicked out of malls in Georgia and Alabama because they sell (non-offensive) Confederate themed t-shirts.
18. While Georgia slept............Ashley Walls, a student at East-Highland Middle School in Sylacauga, Alabama, is told to remove a small necklace on which she had a small Confederate flag. Principal Nathan Brown says the school forbids all "rebel" insignia as well as all clothing or objects containing references to "Dixie."
19. While Georgia slept...........The Town Council of Exmouth, England, scuttles plans for a ceremony to honor Gen. Collett Leventhorpe, an English General who fought in the Confederate army. This was done because the observance might be seen to have "racist undertones."

- By Frank Conner of Georgia

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