Civil rights activist carries Confederate flag in protest

volunteer tv ^ | 02 July 2005

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MARYVILLE, Tenn. A civil rights activist is carrying a Confederate battle flag from Johnson City to Maryville because he says southern pride is being silenced with a pending school decision.

H.K. Edgerton -- who is black -- says no more Rebel flags will be allowed at high school football games there if the school board proposal passes.

The school board is expected to vote to limit flags and noise makers later this month.

Maryville schools director Mike Dalton says the board feels like the group should deal with anything that's offensive to some.

But Edgerton says banning the flag is censorship.

Dalton says the rebel flag has never been the official flag of the school and that the mascot doesn't come from the Civil War era.

He says it comes from a group of boys who were told in the 1940s they couldn't have a football team but created one anyway.

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ping

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HK bump

Thanks Shucks!

[John Filson]

bttt

[japaneseghost]

PING - you're gonna like this!

[VeniVidiVici]

I love this guy

http://www.thesouthernamerican.org/colour.html

Lot's of stuff about him on the net.

[USAfearsnobody]

"H.K. Edgerton was formerly the President of the Asheville, North Carolina NAACP"... Oh my!

HAH!

[GodfearingTexan]

This dalton guy offends me, i want him banned from making any decisions that affect anything but himself.

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I am offended, I am offended, I am offended. Now go make everybody and everything behave in a manner that doesn't offend me.

[Spirited]

Thank you Mr.Edgerton for showing up the stupidity of so-called "authorities" who will sacrifice anything but their salaries if someone so much as sniffs.

[LibertarianInExile]

But...but...there is no reason to advocate Southern heritage besides segregation and racism! This guy must be a racist! /sarc

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I think in honor of the heritage of Maryville and Blount County, Tennessee, the Confederate flag should be banned from Maryville High School. Maryville and Blount County voted to stay in the Union by of a vote of 1,766 to 418 on June 27, 1861. To fly a Confederate flag would be an insult to the memory of the loyal people of Blount County and a denial of the heritage of Maryville.

[SoIA-79]

Bump for Mr.Edgerton

Sticking it to the race-hustlers of all colors.

[Gum Shoe]

"To fly a Confederate flag would be an insult to the memory of the loyal people of Blount County and a denial of the heritage of Maryville."

Perhaps you'd advocate the removal of the CSA flag that flys over the Confederate Cemetery at Shiloh National Battlefield Park then Col? Someone may see it and become offended! Tell me, where do you stop this silliness? The KKK burns crosses too, let's outlaw them? I'm tired of so many people believing the misuse of a symbol like the CSA flag, or the KKK misuse of a cross, defines it's true meaning. Ol Glory flew over a slave state much longer than did the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy. I always believe those who feign such offense, have a deeper agenda. They must have class or racial divisions to empower themselves or their ilk.

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Son you don't even know the history of Blount County.

[PistolPaknMama]

God bless HK! One of my real life heroes, and a fine Southern gentleman to boot!

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Maybe I don't know the particulars of Blount County history, but I can see from the election returns of 1861, that Blount County like most of that part of the world, was strongly for the Union and strongly against the Confederacy.

I hear a lot a talk about "respecting Southern heritage". Why not also respect Southern heritage when that heritage is strongly pro-Union and anti-Confederate? Too many people in that part of Tennessee are unaware that their ancestors were probably strongly loyal to the old Union. I respect the history of my people and my region.

THE UNION FOREVER!

[stainlessbanner]

So the vote in other Confederate states does not represent the people, but the vote in Blount County does?

Can't have it both ways.

I read source accounts and documents. I suggest making a visit to the local historical society, the library, and getting involved in preservation organizations.

[lentulusgracchus]

Mike Dalton says the board feels like the group should deal with anything that's offensive to some......

I am offended by anyone named Mike Dalton .... my constitution just won't abide it! What are you going to do about that, Mike Dalton?!

[lentulusgracchus]

Blount County was bound to Tennessee in an indisseverable way that Tennessee was not bound to the Union.

The People of Tennessee are sovereign, Blount County is not.

The inhabitants of Blount County were, are, and always will be bound to eternal fidelity to their Sovereign, the People of Tennessee.

That's how it works.