Student files lawsuit over confederate flag ban.

Southern Legal Resource Center ^ | Dec 17, 2004

[lentulusgracchus]

You're straight out of "Hee Haw" central casting. Grow up, the Civil War is over.

Central casting never cast an American Indian for Hee Haw. Get a clue, jerk.

[lentulusgracchus]

Nothing says white trash like a sequined confederate flag dress.

Says a poster who takes his screen name from a shotgun-toting goombah who does an elevator full of gumbari in The Godfather.

Nuttin but class.

[nolu chan]

[cvn76 #32] i'll never understand why otherwise good people would defend it.

Here is one man's explanation.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
ATLANTA DIVISION

JAMES ANDREW COLEMAN Plaintiff,

v.

ZELL MILLER,GOVERNOR OF
THE STATE OF GEORGIA
and
THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Defendants.

CIVIL ACTION FILE
NO. 1:94 - CV -1673 - ODE

AFFIDAVIT OF STAFF SGT. EDDIE BROWN PAGE, III

Personally appeared before the undersigned officer, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, STAFF SGT. EDDIE BROWN PAGE, III, and states the following:

1.

My name is Eddie Brown Page, III. I have personal knowledge of the matters addressed in this Affidavit. I am over the age of majority and am suffering for no legal disabilities.

2.

I make this affidavit for use in the above-styled case and for any other lawful and proper use of this Court.

3.

I am a native Atlantan and Georgian. I am an African-American and a patriotic Southerner. I am a graduate of from Georgia State University. I also attended Clark-Atlanta University, graduated from Atlanta Metropolitan Collge, Atlanta Area Technical School and Joseph E. Brown High School in Atlanta. I am currently a full-time student again at Atlanta Area Technical School and serve on the student government as Representative of Automotive Technology Program and President of the Vocational Industrial Club of America (VICA) chapter; I am also the post-secondary State of Georgia Historian of VICA for all Georgia post-secondary schools and technical colleges, for the 1994-95 term. I am a free-lance professional musician of Local 148-462 of the American Federation of Musicians, Atlanta Fed­eration of Musicians Chapter. I am also a music teacher at the Gate City Heritage Preparatory School, teaching grades 1-4. I work as a cashier-clerk at the West End Newsstand. I am a soldier with the 116th Army Band of the Georgia National Guard. My rank is Staff Sergeant. My duties are double-reed section leader and unit career counselor. I am an honor graduate of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina - squad leader of the cycle. I am also a graduate of Georgia Military Institute, honor graduate, basic Non-Commissioned Officer course; graduate of the basic retention NCO course, Camp Robinson, Arkansas; graduate of the NCO battle skills course at Camp Robinson, Arkansas; graduate of the senior ROTC advanced camp, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

4.

The lineage of my current service unit (the 116th Army Band of the Georgia National Guard) dates back to 1862, under Jefferson Davis, President of the Con­federacy and Joseph E. Brown, Governor of Georgia. Based on my own study of my unit's history, a significant number of African-Americans served in the Con­federate militias as musicians, as I do presently in the Guard, and they were de­creed by the Confederate Congress to receive the same pay as Whites; musicians in the Union Army received unequal pay.

5.

As a native Georgian, I was born under the "1879" Georgia memorial flag, based on the Confederate Stars and Bars, but enlisted under and have continuously served under the 1956 Georgia flag with the cross of St. Andrew, also known as the Confederate battle flag. I am a distinguished graduate and alumnus of Joseph Emerson Brown High School of Atlanta, Georgia, named after a Governor of Geor­gia during the War Between the States who later became Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and U. S. Senator from GEorgia (Governor Brown was also the first president of the Atlanta Board of Education and champion of public education as an alumni of the University of Georgia). The "nickname" and "mas­cot" of Brown High School was the "Rebels." Its colors were Confederate gray and infantry royal blue, dedicated as a living memorial to the Confederacy, like our current Georgia flag. As a member of the Brown High Rebel Band, I wore an authentic reproduction of the uniform worn by my African-American forefathers who served in that capacity during the War Between the States. "Dixie" was the school song (this song was made famous by Ohioan Dan Emmett and composed by two Black minstrels, the Snowden brothers, who taught the song to Emmett). The school flag was the Confederate battle flag. As an eighth grader at Brown High School, I was taunted by one White schoolmate who told me to "put that flag down" because it was a "white man's symbol," and that it didn't belong to me and for me to "get my own" symbol. As a result, I embarked upon the study of my African-American Southern heritage and my forefathers' contributions to the Con­federate States of America.

6.

My many years of study on this subject show that Blacks made significant contributions to the Confederate war effort as free people of color and as slaves. I found out that while President Abraham Lincoln was resolute in refusing to use Blacks as soldiers, the Confederate States from the beginning used African-Ameri­cans for all army chores and even as fighting men. Black men furnished most of the cooks, mess attendants, teamsters, stablemen, builders of fortifications, brake-men, baggagemen, track layers and porters, and were also musicians and combat­ants or bodyguards. Black women served as nurses in the Confederate military services.

7.

For me, as a native of the South and as a soldier, the St. Andrew's cross on the Georgia flag symbolizes my heritage - respect for the courage and sacrifice of my patriotic forefathers, free people of color and slaves, for the constitutional prin­ciple of sovereignty of the states of the founding fathers - and not racism, current events or the institution of "slavery." For me, the Confederate symbolism of the current state flag should be understood as representing and acknowledging the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans and Jewish persons, as well as European Americans, that is, a multicultural heritage. To do so would strip the Confederate symbolism of its racial potency and would underscore our com­mon heritage. I directly rebut those who see in the St. Andrews Cross a symbol of white supremacy, segregation and "state's rights".

FURTHER, AFFIANT SAYETH NOT.

/s/ Eddie Brown Page, III GAARNG
EDDIE BROWN PAGE, III

Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 15th day of December 1994.

/s/ Sandra C. Hembree
Notary Public

My Commission Expires:
/stamp/
Notary Public, Douglas County, Georgia
My Commission Expires March 24, (unreadable, appears to be 1996 or 1998)

[laotzu]

"wild little good old WHITE BOY circle j..k"

Always with the sexual inuendo, always with the racism.

I know you're from California, but this is not a dating service.
(our t-shirts are in; yours is 100% cotten)

[4CJ]

Bump!

[stand watie]

!!!!!!!

[Clemenza]

;-)

[cvn76]

so noted mr chan

[cvn76]

fyi:

racism?
really.
i am proud of my caucasian german/irish heritage.

is cotten a derivative of the cotton that the rest of humanity wears? remember where you put that big word dictionary? lol!!!!!!!!!!!

you are getting kind of small in my rearview mirror bud.
maybe i can send you a bioya from time to time.

[cvn76]

"!!!!!!!"

at least this posting was not as nasty as the usual.

time for the dr stand and watie "free willie" UPDATE!!!!

the good dr on another thread (confederate flag of course),
attempted to "spin" out of the university professor / company employee snafu he got himself into.

his explanation!

he is a POLICY WONK!!!! for a COMPANY. and as such he is also a GUEST LECTURER POLICY WONK DUDE at the university!!!!

"NOPE i'm NOT a professor .........i'm what they call i "guest lecturer" for a local college."

"in point of fact i'm a "POLICY WONK" for a "nonprofit"corporation (i.e., the company i work for)."

free dixie,sw

246 posted on 12/23/2004 8:57:56 AM PST by stand watie

WHOA dr stand!!! earlier in that very same thread you posted this:

"it has been my expierience (sp) throughout graduate school & TEACHING on this campus,......

"in point of fact, a GENERATION (20+ years for the "LAOTZU"s out there) ago, i had an IBM ball-typewriter converted to NO caps. (LOL!!!! sure you did, dr watie!!!lol!!!!)that drove the ........ on the FACULTY crazy....." (CAPS and guffaws added for emphasis.)

free dixie,sw
237 posted on 12/22/2004 8:52:44 AM PST by stand watie

so the doc has been a GUEST lecturer for 20+ years who sends out FACULTY notes!!!!!! lol... AND gets the university to modify his typewriter.

but, of course doc! it's clear to us now.

like i said .... i can't make this stuff up. the hilarity just rolls on and on with the good doc!!!!

what will you be in the near future, doc?

some of us are anxious to follow your meteoric career path!!!!

lol!!!!!!!! "free your dixie/willie"!!!!

[mac_truck]

nutty professor bump.

[cvn76]

lol!!

[cvn76]

i just found out on yet another confederate thread (surprise, surprise again) that coupled with your

a)illustrious service record defending all of us
b)life in academia
c)business world acumen as a POLICY WONK (forgive my mirth
at your expense...that one just...what can i say?)
d)reserved for whatever other things turn up in old posts.

you are also an american indian!!!!!!

again i say, of course you are.

with that, i'll leave you with a link to a bit of your fr legacy......

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250410/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

it is 900+ posts long and in it what will people find dr "freewillie"?

they will find the 30+ instances of the same snarling, nasty responses they find in this thread!!

directed at those who disagree on some point with the good dr watie.

VERBATIM (tough word i know, look it up dr).

i feel some sympathy toward you after viewing your posting history in these other threads.

same words over and over.

but you make us freepers look bad due to your affiliation with this board.

responding to your attacks is even worse than the hand grenade/fishing analogy.

i now think it's like clubbing baby seals or hunting chicklets with a 12gauge running 3inch magnum rifled slugs.

BUCK UP!! my man.

crack open those books at the university!! (snicker, snicker). bone up on that vocab and get some new stuff to hurl at people.

btw, i didn't start out attacking you professor/indian chief wonksalot.

i entered a post which i later backed off somewhat from due to the regional context i had of this issue.
you elected to go into attack mode.

i won't stand down to fools like you though, and i'm sure we'll cross again the next time you blast someone else.

what's that smell dr willie?

teen spirit??? no....

it smells like .......BURNT FRAUD!!!!

[stand watie]

once again, you prove yourself to be a FOOL & a HATER.

end of story.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

aren't you glad that he isn't one of ours? otoh, i'm PLEASED that he is IN the damnyankee camp & truly hope he stays there.

every one of his half-witted posts makes the unionist-lunatic "cause" look WORSE & that is a positive good for our side.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

PLEASE don't DISCOURAGE him/her/it!

his/her/its diatribes, half-witted assumptions,verbal assaults against southerners & stupid rants make the damnyankee cause look even less intelligent than usual & (one would hope that) he/she/it is converting neutrals into southrons.

the unionist-lunatic faction on FR cannot be pleased to have him on their team. BUT they are stuck with him/her/it.

free dixie,sw

[Pahuanui]

i'll never understand why otherwise good people would defend it.

It's awfully fun to burn, though.

[stand watie]

it's been my experience that "girly-men" like these pencil thin "fashion model" types, rather than women with curves.

makes you wonder if they'd really prefer preteen boys????

free dixie,sw

[sausageseller]

Stopped at Gary's BBQ in Kansas City, Mo. for a beef sandwich the other day. It was a good brisket sandwich. He is on US 40 not far from "Gates BBQ".

Wonder if Gary's kin was involved in the "Border Wars"?