KEEP CONFEDERATE AVENUE IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA

The Atlanta City Council voted to change the name of Confederate Ave and other streets with names associated with our glorious and proud Confederacy. The effective date for the change is January 2019. I plan to speak to the Georgia Civil War Commission about this at their next month's meeting. If you are not aware, the State of Georgia has 3 facilities on Confederate Avenue: DOT, Public Safety and GEMA. I'n hoping that the state will step in to put a halt to this. Please help me by signing and providing a comment (if you so choose). This is hateful, divisive and will adversely affect the city, the South and its people. The Council has an incorrect understanding of the Confederacy which consisted of white, black, Hispanic, Jewish, Native American & Asian people. There is confusion and costs associated with the change of street names, but that does not seem to be a concern of the City. The city council has no problem with changing the culture of a city and maligning the reputation of those who are dead and can't fight back. People visit Atlanta and Georgia to see its history which includes its proud Confederate heritage when the South defended itself during an invasion from 1861-65. Over 600,000 men, women and children lost their lives during the War for Southern Independence. Homes and crops were destroyed, livestock confiscated, citizens were raped and murdered, and personal property pillaged. Troops even contaminated a town's water supply by throwing dead animals into wells. In Arkansas, troops held the leg of a Southern woman over hot coals trying to get her to reveal where her husband's wealth was hidden. The troops took most of her belongings from her house before it was burned down. Her leg was treated, but it later had to be amputated. Even 400 female mill workers and their children were kidnapped by evil Gen William Tecumseh Sherman's troops from their Roswell, GA home.  They were transported via railcar to Indiana and Kentucky where they were maliciously abandoned. Some of the women had to give away their children as they could not care for them. Others starved as they were unable to find jobs. A book "The Women will Howl" was written about the lives of these kidnapped women. The title came from a statement by Gen Sherman. It took many generations before Atlanta and the South could return from the suffering, destruction, losses, ashes and genocide committed on them. Other streets targeted  by the Atlanta City Council are any streets named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, John B. Gordon, Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dill Lee and Howell Cobb. Please send your emails to these Atlanta 12 City Council members: FMoore@atlantaga.gov, csmith@atlantaga.gov, arfarokhi@atlantaga.gov, ilyoung@atlantaga.gov, cwinslow@atlantaga.gov, narchibong@atlantaga.gov, jnide@atlantaga.gov, hshook@atlantaga.gov, jpmatzigheit@atlantaga.gov, drhillis@atlantaga.gov, aboone@atlantaga.gov, mcoverstreet@atlantaga.gov, jmsheperd@atlantaga.gov, mbond@atlantaga.gov, mwestmoreland@atlantaga.gov, adickens@atlantaga.gov