Actually that has a strong following. That's why there is Liberia. 
Posted on 12/08/2003 4:57:04 PM PST by Holly_P
One thousand six hundred and six point one miles on foot; traveling twenty miles per day, six days per week. Asheville, NC to Austin, Texas. One does not make such a trip for personal glory, or for want of fame. One carries the Christian Cross of St. Andrew as ones ancestors did, defending and standing for what one believes to be right. I am led by a strong sense of ancestral duties to my South Land, and with the knowledge that she has been and continues to be wronged by the very nation she helped build.
What began as a fund raising(er) cultural awareness campaign slowly took on an aura synonymous of a celebration of family (Southern Style). Black, white, red and yellow folks came out to greet us. They provided us with food, money, tales of valor, legends of bravery, and importantly love of God’s speed. To have the opportunity to confabulate with Southern families with the knowledge that folks have tried to inculcate into their thinking processes that our Southern symbols, heroes, and motivations for the War for Southern Independence was evil, and to find in the majority they had not bought into this revisionist teaching was a relief.
We found a silent majority of Black folks who felt they had no real avenue to express their true feelings about the South Land, or the honor and dignity that their families had earned under the Christian Cross of St. Andrews. Many felt that the so-called era of Reconstruction was filled with tactics designed to divide and separate Black folks in the South from their white families. They asked Terry Lee (my brother) and me to be sure to carry their message forward.
Beyond any shadow of doubt the photographs and visual documentation produced by Terry Lee will certainly cause pain to those revisionists who have mis-written our Southern history. This is a most unfortunate situation for our country and especially our South Land.
Indeed, when we finished our journey, very few at home wanted to hear about it. Our city (Asheville) even had a film festival where we entered our documentary tapes of this historical journal and we were essentially told that they had no merit!
Sickened by the continuous attack on my South Land, our flag, the men, women, and children who dare to show any adoration for her as the adorn their Dixie Outfitter apparel, or bear her glorious flag; I am again compelled to make another journey across the South to our brothers and sisters of the North whose ancestors fought on the other side, in hope that a hand of reconciliation will stop the attacks and many lies, while bringing us into a true state of Union. Diversity divides, while truth unites. On about April 30, 2004 we leave for Boston, Mass. on foot.
Donations to help us with this march to Boston can be sent to the Southern Legal Resource Center, PO Box 1235, Black Mountain, NC 28711
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I thought it was interesting that he was a past president of the Asheville NAACP. Wonder what the national NAACP thought about him?
Because Edgerton understands that the flag has nothing to do with racism. It stands for states' rights. The War Of The Northern Aggression was not about slavery. And after the war? Lincoln wanted to ship ALL the blacks back to Africa.
No, but the southern rebellion was.
"What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North-was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery." -- Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention
As opposed to the southern leaders, who wanted the blacks right where they were, as property.
Did you know that Lincoln swore not to free the slaves in his campaign for president? Did you know that the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to slaves in the Rebel states (read it)? Did you know that there were still slaves in the North AFTER the war was over? Did you know that thousands of blacks in the South owned slaves? Did you know that most slaves got to keep more of the fruits of their labor than today's middle-class American? (after taxes)
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Actually that has a strong following. That's why there is Liberia.
The reason?
They didn't believe in slavery and said so!
When they, their sons and their grandsons "came back home", they did so in Grant's Army.
End of story.
False. True. True. Sort of true (black slave owners numbered in the hundreds, not thousands). And false.
My turn. Did you know that the confederate constitution specifically protected slave imports? That the confederate vice president called protection of slavery the cornerstone of their rebellion? That defense of the institution of slavery was the single most often mentioned reason, usually the only reason given, for the rebellion in the southern declarations of the causes of secession? That Jefferson Davis owned hundreds of slaves during the course of his life, as many as 115 at any one time, and never once freed a single slave he owned? That the Virginia constitution gave a freed slave 12 months in which to leave the state or they could be sold back into slavery?
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