Please consider donating to our GoFundMe so that we can raise an MLK over the Neo-Confederate monument in Orange, Texas in time for MLK Day and Black History Month 2025.
The monument, believed the biggest Neo-Confederate site to be built since the 1910s, was debuted in 2017 and we have raised a billboard and organized a protest each year since.
At this point, we only need about $1,300 to reach our goal of $2k. Thanks to a surplus of $600 from 2023-24, we are already so close!
People ask me and Tracie why we do this every year. They’re never going to take it down, they tell us.
As a wise person once told me, sometimes the battles you know you are going to lose are the ones most important to fight.
We’ve been spit at, cussed at, rolled coal on, threatened with violence, bombarded with lit cigarettes…
But we’ve also received so many notes of thanks and encouragement from residents of Orange, especially from those who are frightened by the ongoing threats — verbal and physical — from the Sons of Confederate Veterans and their followers.
“I have to drive my child by that monument every day on our way to school,” one person wrote to me.
Click here to see what some of that abuse has looked like (it ain’t pretty).
Someday, the people that built the monument will be gone. We’ll see if their children continue to propagate their white supremacist message. In the meantime, Tracie and I are teaching our children that we all must stand up to racism and hate in our communities.
Thank you for your support. And hopefully we will see you in Orange on Monday, January 20, for the historic MLK March there, followed by our protest in the shadow of our MLK billboard at the site of the monument.
Read more about our efforts over the years and see photos from our protests here.
Thank you.
Do Bianchi 
keep up the good work.